Bob:
If your VPfW shows that this is not correct for a FPDW penalty free
strategy, please post.
Frugal Video Poker says NOT to hold K-hi RF2s, in the penalty free strategy
for FPDW.
Brian
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In a message dated 1/9/2007 6:33:36 PM Pacific Standard Time, I wrote:
Your second correction assumes that you hold RF2, K-hi, in FPDW. I believe
that you do not, on average.
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Brian wrote: If your VPfW shows that this is not correct for a FPDW
penalty free
strategy, please post.
Frugal Video Poker says NOT to hold K-hi RF2s, in the penalty free
strategy
for FPDW.
Although I prefer to use the VPW acronym rather than VPfW,
neither VPW nor FVP suggest holding RF2 K-hi as part of the basic
strategy.
One rather major enhancement VPW does have on this subject,
though, is that it lists these particular RF2s BELOW "Draw 5" and
includes a "not recommended" notation beside it. It also says there are
6780 hands where you DO hold RF2 K-high. What this means is that while a
penalty-free strategy says to not hold these hands, there are numerous
situations where it is correct.
If you want to know WHICH hands are misplayed by the strategy,
that information is easily available. (I don't think this information is
listed anywhere else currently other than VPW.) Once you are on the
strategy page in VPW, if you click on SHOW REPORT, it will list all
hands that the penalty-free strategy misplays --- including all 6780
cases where you hold 'KQ', 'KJ', or 'KT'. (These hands are grouped in
various equal-EV ways so that the actual list is much shorter). Penalty
free "purists" will never have a reason to look at this report, but many
players who wish to improve their game will look at the list to pick out
the penalty-card situations that gain them the most advantage. And FPDW
in particular remains a game where a sizeable percentage of players know
and apply at least some of the penalty card rules. Even Paymar, who in
general neglects penalty cards from his strategies, includes one in this
area of FPDW via a footnote.
Bob Dancer
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