MaleSnail
MaleSnail
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November 1st, 2015 at 10:11:24 AM permalink
Double U online casino-for-fun (no real money) just offered a new version of Video Poker called "Double Hold". It could also be called "Double Draw". There are no wilds and no pays for less than 3 of a kind. Starting there, the pay table up is fairly standard: 2, 4, 6, 9, 25, 50, 800. I believe that the casino has made a mistake in evaluating this game, and I don't think the standard Wizard charts apply for strategy. Empirically, I determined that for large jackpots, you can take an "extra" chance on the first draw and hold for a Royal with even 1 suitable card. Since you get a second draw, you can often recover from an unfavorable draw -- a second chance, where the tables DO apply as-is. As evidence of my successful strategy, I have never won a jackpot at Double U video poker, and in the last 2 days I have won 10 (ten) jackpots, taking my chips from $10M to $1.4B. I got a friend to try from scratch, with just the beginner's bonus of $1M, and he already has $355M after 1 day. I don't think any "real" casino offers this game at those pays, or they would lose money. Can you offer an analysis or strategy guide for this odd game?
MaleSnail
MaleSnail
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November 1st, 2015 at 10:41:08 AM permalink
Since I'm playing, and thinking, as we speak, I offer another anomaly -- drawing to an inside straight. With an open unsuited sequence of 4, there are 8 favorable cards in the remaining 47 for a straight, while an inside or one-ended straight has only 4 favorable cards. In this variant, however, you get to draw TWICE to fill that hole. I don't know if that makes the options mathematically equal, but it sure makes the chances much better to fill that inside straight with two chances. For 4 to a royal, or even 4 to any straight flush, of course there's no question to hold the four cards regardless of sequence, and in this game, you get 2 chances to hit!
Let me revise that last sentence, since I'm playing 100 hand multi-draw. This strategy also perturbs the chances whereas it wouldn't in a one-hand game. Since you get a "free" chance to improve your hand, then you can play the odds for hitting a specific card or cards in the following 100 draws. For 4 to a royal, the chances of hitting with 100 tries are excellent! Every time I've had that combination, I have hit at least one and sometimes 2 royals, for a huge jackpot plus the standard 800X payoff.
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