In a message dated 8/8/2003 7:15:59 PM Central Daylight Time,
howard.w.stern@earthlink.net writes:
For all games where a high pair and two pair pay 5 coins and three of a
kind pays 15 (The following does not apply to triple double bonus.) the break
even point for the value of the four of a kind you hope to make has to be at
least the following to break up two pair:
Now that is really interesting! I knew the answer to the question lay in the
values of the FH and 4OAK but had no idea of the specifics. Those figures
might actually help me if I manage to remember them... They certainly could
have helped on those times when I've gone out on a limb and played an unfamiliar
game.
Chandler
"...there is always a well-known solution to every human problem--neat,
plausible, and wrong." H. L. Mencken
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