Cycle (videopoker)



The statistically predicted average number of hands per royal flush (or other top jackpot).
In other words, a "cycle" is simply the reciprocal of the probability of a royal on the next hand.
Remember that the games are random, however, so don't expect to get exactly one royal flush per "cycle."
The Poisson Distribution tells us that there is only a 63.2% probability of at least one royal in one cycle, but this
balanced by the chances of two or more royals in one cycle.