Bob Dancer's LV Advisor Column - 1 OCT 2013
Using 9/6 Jacks or Better Strategy to Play 8/5 Bonus Poker
http://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/bob_dancer/2013/1001.cfm
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Im mostly one of those silent members… Im glad this group exists and love reading every message!
Wow! I really need to learn JOB! I had posted something a month ago asking help on why I should learn a game such as JOB over a game like DW. Being a beginner, honestly i make more mistakes than getting these perfect percentages. I practice everyday but getting to be an “advantage player” is not easy! You can memorize the strategy but playing it perfectly is a totally different game. More importantly
is my wife doesn’t always want to stay at the hotels that have FP DW and you know who’s going to win that battle. That is really great to know that JOB strategy can get me close to BP (with the right payout tables).
Thank you Bob for your article on JOB! Im glad im able to be apart of a group you contribute too!
Chad
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Using 9/6 Jacks or Better Strategy to Play 8/5 Bonus Poker
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under Case 2, where it says:
BP: KQ, KJ, QJ > SF3 2h2i; SF3 1h1i; SF3 0h0i usually
I might be missing something here, but I can’t think of any time that “KQ, KJ, QJ > SF3 2h2i; SF3 1h1i” would be correct in 8/5 Bonus Poker unless you had a sufficiently high progressive, but I think the article is talking about regular 8/5 Bonus strategy.
For the case with, SF3 2h2i, that would be saying that you drop a suited 9 from KQ9, KJ9 and a suited 8 from
QJ8
The KQ, KJ, QJ can’t be a different suit than the SF3 2h2i or you would have a high pair that you hold instead.
The only relevant SF3 1h1i would be J98 because QT9 would make a straight or QQ with any KQ, KJ, QJ and JT8 would make a KQJT or JJ. And with J98 vs KQ , you hold the J98 .
Like I said I could be missing something here, but I can’t seem to think of any time that KQ, KJ, QJ > SF3 2h2i; SF3 1h1i is correct barring progressives…
catan pointed out:
under Case 2, where it says:
BP: KQ, KJ, QJ > SF3 2h2i; SF3 1h1i; SF3 0h0i usually
(basically he says this is a mistake)
Thank you for pointing this out. You are correct that the “SF3 2h2i” combination should be omitted. The statement is otherwise correct.
Also, “5 Spot” wrote to me privately and said the percentages given in the second paragraph should read: “Rounding off to three decimal places, perfect BP
returns 99.167% and BP using JoB strategy returns 99.158%.” He’s correct.
Both corrections have been made to the draft and I have resubmitted it to LVA so that they will post the corrections.
So is KQ, KJ, QJ > SF3 1h1i in Bonus Poker?
I couldn’t think of examples where that is the case, but admit I didn’t spend too much time on it. The only time I could think of where you would have to choose between the two is KQ vs J98 , and in that case you hold the J98. I believe any other time you have those two in the same deal, you have better holds than either, but I could have missed something obvious.