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PYL season finale on ABC tonight 8/7

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BillCullen1:
It looks like ABC will continue to show reruns of PYL and Card Sharks on Saturday evenings.

tyshaun1:

--- Quote from: tvmitch on August 09, 2019, 11:41:29 AM ---I've often thought that declining to play in Round 1 would actually be to the contestant's advantage in the long run statistically. That may be even more true in this new version.

--- End quote ---

The ideal strategy, IMO, for Round 1 is to earn about $2000 and pass. 1 Whammy? Pass. On that note, in round 2, way too many people (on the original and current) seem to believe that having 6 or more spins meant they had to keep playing to try to burn them off, not realizing that passing a lot of spins to their opponent who has to play them is a real disadvantage for them.

Loogaroo:
Since there are 10 Whammies inhabiting 9 squares on the board, there's about an 18% chance of hitting a Whammy on any given R2 spin. And since it's clear that nobody is scanning the board to wait for a soft board to come up, that means that a player is a 55% favorite to hit at least one Whammy when 4 spins have been passed to them. That may change if they start staggering the board rotations in Season 2 so all 18 squares don't change at exactly the same time.

Peggy struck me as the only player out of the entire crop this season that played with any semblance of a strategy, as evidenced by the way she talked through her last spin of the front game. Really hope to see more of that when the show comes back - PYL is deceptively robust when it comes to the variables of making that play/pass decision.

Chuck Sutton:
I just watched. If Peggy had been using good strategy she would have passed at 26,000.  Instead
she needed two lucky spins in a row to win.

Loogaroo:
I did say "any semblance of strategy", to be fair.

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