Cycle

The average number of hands per Royal Flush (or other top jackpot). ‘ Remember, however, that the games are random, so don’t expect to get exactly one Royal Flush per “cycle,” and don’t get the idea that a machine is “due to hit” just because the number of hands defined as a cycle have been played on it without hitting a Royal. Actually, the cycle is calculated as one divided by the probability of a Royal Flush on each play. In the long run, if you play a ‘ number of hands equal to n cycles you may “expect” n Royal Flushes, but the Poisson Distribution reveals your real probabilities.