TheFly
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February 19th, 2013 at 4:27:24 PM permalink
Hello all. I am someone who plays VP occasionally, but not frequently. As such, I love the Wizard's Simple Strategy tables that he developed for Jacks or Better and Deuces Wild (thanks, Wizard!), and at this point I use them pretty much any time I play. At the places I have played, however, the Bonus Poker paytables are usually a little better than the JoB or DW tables. The optimal strategy for Bonus Poker does not appear terribly different from that of JoB. So my question is: what would be the expected return playing 8/5 Bonus Poker if one used the Wizard's Jacks or Better Simple Strategy? As a corollary, if one were to develop a Simple Strategy for BP, would there be any differences from the one for JoB?
tringlomane
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February 19th, 2013 at 4:50:36 PM permalink
Well, I would assume the costs of the Wizard's Simple Strategy would roughly be the same for Bonus Poker, which is about 0.08% error cost. Actually from a glance, it looks that the simple strategy for JoB works for Bonus Poker better when comparing it to detailed full-pay JoB and Bonus strategies.

But if you play frequently enough, I would try to fill in the gaps with a full-blown basic strategy. It's only double the options. The Wizard already has one handy for 8/5 Bonus.

https://wizardofodds.com/games/video-poker/strategy/bonus-poker/8-5/

If you play other paytables, you can use JB's strategy creator. It will tell you intricacies like breaking Aces full on badly paying 6/5 Bonus machines.

https://wizardofodds.com/games/video-poker/strategy/calculator/

Like you, Bonus Poker is a better option for me in many locations I have played.
Scot
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February 19th, 2013 at 4:50:40 PM permalink
I'm not sure on the math of using the JoB strategy, but here is a link to the Wizards 8/5 BP strategy. You could manually compare the two.
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February 19th, 2013 at 5:30:59 PM permalink
If you use perfect strategy for 8/5 Bonus Poker then it returns 99.1659731872335%
If you use perfect 9/6 JoB strategy on 8/5 Bonus Poker it returns 99.1582486118584%
The loss in return is about 0.0077245753751%
TheFly
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February 19th, 2013 at 6:43:48 PM permalink
Wow, that loss is even smaller than I expected! Thanks to JB and the others for your help!
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