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NSUD strategy

Can anyone tell me what the payback would be on a NSUD machine when
played with normal 2wild strategy? Are there a few very basic
changes one can make to recoup the lost value? Thanks.

quiltlady3240 wrote:

Can anyone tell me what the payback would be on a NSUD machine when
played with normal 2wild strategy? Are there a few very basic
changes one can make to recoup the lost value? Thanks.

NSUD played with FPDW strategy yields an expected return of 98.8% -
almost a full 1% loss in return from optimal NSUD strategy.

However, there are as you suggest a few basic strategy tweaks that can
restore most of the EV without taking too much time to learn them.
Since I play in AC where there are no viable deuces paytables
available, this is exactly the approach I take in playing NSUD on the
rare occasion I make it to LV.

There are two critical strategy changes to make:

- With no deuces, hold four flush over one pair.
- With no deuces, hold two pair when present, not just one.

Five other less critical changes that will go far to restore the EV of
your play are:

- With 2 deuces, hold 2 cards to a SF, whether consecutive or gapped
by one (lowest consecutive cards to hold being 4,5 and gapped being 5,7).
<In FPDW you only hold the consecutive cards.>

- With 1 deuce, hold 2 cards to a SF whether consecutive or gapped by
one (lowest consecutive cards to hold being 4,5 and gapped being 5,7).
<Again, in FPDW you don't hold the gapped cards.)

- With 1 deuce, hold 3 cd open straight cards (lowest held being 5,6,7).

- With no deuce, hold 3 cd open SF over a pair or 4 cd open straight.

- With no deuces, hold a 4 card inside straight (except A,3,4,5).

I believe these are the most important strategy changes (others may
point out more) and while I haven't determined the adjusted EV I
believe that play that incorporates these should yield a strong EV.

Now let me just qualify this by saying that I'm "winging" this just a
bit, so I encourage anyone who feels that they can improve upon this
reply to do so.

- Harry

quiltlady3240 wrote:

Can anyone tell me what the payback would be on a NSUD machine when
played with normal 2wild strategy? Are there a few very basic
changes one can make to recoup the lost value? Thanks.

NSUD played with FPDW strategy yields an expected return of 98.8% -
almost a full 1% loss in return from optimal NSUD strategy.

However, there are as you suggest a few basic strategy tweaks that can
restore most of the EV without taking too much time to learn them.
Since I play in AC where there are no viable deuces paytables
available, this is exactly the approach I take in playing NSUD on the
rare occasion I make it to LV.

There are two critical strategy changes to make:

- With no deuces, hold four flush over one pair.
- With no deuces, hold two pair when present, not just one.

Five other less critical changes that will go far to restore the EV of
your play are:

- With 2 deuces, hold 2 cards to a SF, whether consecutive or gapped
by one (lowest consecutive cards to hold being 4,5 and gapped being 5,7).
<In FPDW you only hold the consecutive cards.>

- With 1 deuce, hold 2 cards to a SF whether consecutive or gapped by
one (lowest consecutive cards to hold being 4,5 and gapped being 5,7).
<Again, in FPDW you don't hold the gapped cards.)

- With 1 deuce, hold 3 cd open straight cards (lowest held being 5,6,7).

- With no deuce, hold 3 cd open SF over a pair or 4 cd open straight.

- With no deuces, hold a 4 card inside straight (except A,3,4,5).

I believe these are the most important strategy changes (others may
point out more) and while I haven't determined the adjusted EV I
believe that play that incorporates these should yield a strong EV.

Now let me just qualify this by saying that I'm "winging" this just a
bit, so I encourage anyone who feels that they can improve upon this
reply to do so.

- Harry

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-----Original Message-----
From: Harry Porter [mailto:harry.por…@…net]
Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 8:38 PM
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [vpFREE] Re: NSUD strategy

Oooops. Please ignore my previous reply to this.
It was supposed to be deleted.

  QZ