On a 1-10 scale how difficult is this game? Any other strategies that are similiar?
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that are similiar?
To get reasonably good is quite easy. It is similar to most bonus games
that pay 1-1-3-4. There are a few differences due to the higher payback
of j-k which means you hold two high cards almost all the time you are
dealt them instead of just an ace as in DDB. If you start off with a 9-
6 DDB strategy (except for the aces) you will be fairly close and can
learn the differences pretty fast.
Like any new game it pays to spend a little time practicing. If you're
proficient at DDB or DDAF, I would think a couple of hours would get
you within .1 or .2.
Dick
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, hedonist144 <hedonist144@...> wrote:
On a 1-10 scale how difficult is this game? Any other strategies
Mroejacks wrote, in response to a question about how easy this game is:
To get reasonably good is quite easy. It is similar to most bonus games
that pay 1-1-3-4. There are a few differences due to the higher payback
of j-k which means you hold two high cards almost all the time you are
dealt them instead of just an ace as in DDB. If you start off with a 9-
6 DDB strategy (except for the aces) you will be fairly close and can
learn the differences pretty fast.
Like any new game it pays to spend a little time practicing. If you're
proficient at DDB or DDAF, I would think a couple of hours would get
you within .1 or .2.
While this answer is okay so far as it goes, I think a clarification is
useful.
My goal, certainly not universally shared here, is to be quite a bit
more accurate than within 0.1 or 0.2 --- so I would start with pay
schedules that at the bottom end are 1-1-3-4-5 and exclude those that
are 1-1-3-4-6. The amount you get for the flush makes a strategic
difference in several different types of hands.
Suitable starting points would certainly include DDAF, but would exclude
the good versions of DDB. Other suitable games would be Super Aces
Bonus, White Hot Aces, Triple Bonus Poker Plus and bad versions of Bonus
Poker Deluxe. Of course, if you already KNOW DDB (or even Jacks or
Better, for that matter) and you don't know any of the the other games
listed, you start with what you know.
Bonus Poker --- where flushes also pay 5-for-1 --- is an okay model
EXCEPT for inside straights and either aces up or aces full. This game
pays 2-for-1 for two pair and in these games (basically only Bonus Poker
and variations and Jacks or Better), you don't hold inside straights
without at least three high cards, but in games where two pair returns
1-for-1, all inside straights (except those with exactly one high card)
are eligible to be held.
Bob Dancer
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