Harry Porter wrote:
Dan Paymar wrote:
There have been detailed articles on the Double Up feature in the
last two issues of Video Poker Times.The bottom line is that Double Up does not change the game's EV. All
it does is increase the variance.Dan, will you allow the following?
- To the extent that in a session of a fixed length of time doubling
supplants standard wagers, the ER of a session will be nudged toward 100%.- If doubling is limited to wins of 5 credits, and in many cases 10
credits, play variance will not increase from doubling. (Of course,
most "doublers" carry the activity well beyond those wagers.)
Herry, no, I will not agree to that. Any Double Up, even just once on a one bet "win" (actually a push) increases the game's variance.
I recommend you get a copy of issues 11.1 and 11.2 of Video Poker Times to see a full, detailed analysis of why this is so.
Dan
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Dan Paymar, author of the book, "Video Poker - Optimum Play"
Editor and Publisher of "Video Poker Times" newsletter
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