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September 13th, 2016 at 7:19:34 AM permalink
About a month and a half out from this years Cutting edge, Texas Switch is finally up and running in LV. I wonder what pay tables they are using....



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September 13th, 2016 at 8:05:44 AM permalink
I'm still meaning to check it out. Seldom do I have reason to go to that part of town.
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September 13th, 2016 at 11:35:17 AM permalink
There is a game demo on the Aces up gaming website... I played for a little while. I honestly prefer UTH or WPT heads up hold'em. While the switch option is interesting, I don't like having to pay for another hand. I would rather simply just fold and play a new hand with the full amount on the table. I'm also not the biggest fan of the community card order of exposure. Just my opinion as always.

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September 13th, 2016 at 11:58:05 AM permalink
I would compare this to Texas Hold 'Em Bonus where the player can pay a fee for a new set of hole cards. From the failure of my own Mulligan game, I think if players get a lousy hand they don't want to replace it, they just want to admit defeat and play a new hand. Same thing with surrender in blackjack, hardly anybody ever invokes the option even when it is available.
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September 13th, 2016 at 12:15:15 PM permalink
Quote: Wizard

I think if players get a lousy hand they don't want to replace it, they just want to admit defeat and play a new hand. Same thing with surrender in blackjack, hardly anybody ever invokes the option even when it is available.



I agree...
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September 17th, 2016 at 4:05:48 PM permalink
I knew this game sounded familiar...



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September 17th, 2016 at 4:52:19 PM permalink
So what happens to the "switch" bet if you do not invoke the option to switch?
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September 17th, 2016 at 7:37:44 PM permalink
Quote: bigfoot66

So what happens to the "switch" bet if you do not invoke the option to switch?



If you win the hand it pushes. If you lose the hand, it loses. If you exercise the switch then it's lost as well.
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September 17th, 2016 at 8:18:42 PM permalink
Quote: mrsuit31

If you win the hand it pushes. If you lose the hand, it loses. If you exercise the switch then it's lost as well.


This is actually a very good game mechanism - as the gambler sees that if he doesn't switch out a bad hand, he'd probably lose the switch bet anyway.
If it wins on a win, which obviously is even better, it wouldn't provide enough house edge for the switch to happen. They might have made it also win on a flush or better, like in UTH, but the math had denied that.
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January 5th, 2017 at 4:04:13 PM permalink
Does anyone know how this game is doing?
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