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Adjust from JoB to Bonus Poker

#1

Hi, all:

I just joined this group and am learning a lot!

I've pretty much mastered Jacks or Better and am ready to expand my
repertoire. What are the major strategy differences between JoB and
Bonus Poker?

Thanks in advance,
Patty

#2

Actually, there are no major strategy differences. JB strategy will get you to within about .003% of the max return. My advice would be to move

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on to another game like DW or DB. Then, if you find yourself with a lot of time and nothing to do sometime, you could deal with that .003% (.00003). Skip pattyjeannyc wrote:

Hi, all:

I just joined this group and am learning a lot!

I've pretty much mastered Jacks or Better and am ready to expand my repertoire. What are the major strategy differences between JoB and Bonus Poker?

Thanks in advance,
Patty

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#3

I think that the first part of the strategy, when you have the chioce
of either machine is to forget about the 8/5 bonus and just play the
9/6 JoB. But if the prospect of hitting Specials is too much to
resist, your straight Jacks or Better strategy will return to you all
it's capable of returning. Seems to me that's about 99.12% to 99.52
or so on the JoB machine.
Brian

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Hi, all:

I just joined this group and am learning a lot!

I've pretty much mastered Jacks or Better and am ready to expand my
repertoire. What are the major strategy differences between JoB and
Bonus Poker?

Thanks in advance,
Patty

#4

What are the major strategy differences between JoB and
Bonus Poker?

For a good quick summation, see post # 37492 from 12-16-04.

Nudge

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From: "pattyjeannyc" <pattyjeannyc@yahoo.com>
Subject: [vpFREE] Adjust from JoB to Bonus Poker

#5

I have had a few hold button malfunctions in the past couple of weeks. I usually use the hold buttons instead of touch screen. After holding the cards, sometimes the hold is not registered and another card is dealt in it's place. I usually don't say anything if it does not effect the outcome. I did question it last week when the hand was effected. They did a history on the machine and it did not show the hold. I asked them to check the camera. The camera did show I held the card and they paid me for it. I am not a fast player (500 hands per hour) so that shouldn't effect it.

Has anyone else had such an experience?

Illinois Jim

#6

I have had a few hold button malfunctions in the past couple of weeks. I
usually use the hold buttons instead of touch screen. After holding the
cards, sometimes the hold is not registered and another card is dealt in
it's place. I usually don't say anything if it does not effect the outcome.
I did question it last week when the hand was effected. They did a
history on the machine and it did not show the hold. I asked them to check
the camera. The camera did show I held the card and they paid me for it. I
am not a fast player (500 hands per hour) so that shouldn't effect it.

Has anyone else had such an experience?

Illinois Jim

Whenever I hear "the button didn't hold," I translate it into "I
didn't make sure the hold was registered before I drew." I've been
playing video poker since 1984 and only once was the machine
responsible for my playing a hand in a way that I wouldn't have
wanted, and that was on an old machine of a kind that I believe hardly
exists, any more. On a $1 full pay kings or better machine at
Fitzgerald's in Las Vegas, I was dealt a flush, carefully held all 5
cards, pushed "draw," and the middle card un-held. All other times,
my carelessness was responsible, including the times when I pushed
"hold" for one card and another card was held.