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Strategy for WHA (White Hot Aces)?

#1

traveler60657 wrote:

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... info on White Hot Aces which I'll paste below ...

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FP = 1-1-3-4-5-9-50-120-240-50-800 (99.24% - 43.0 VAR).

This game is like Triple Bonus Poker Plus, except that straight
flushes return 80 (rather than 100).

First of all, I don't see a "80" or even "100" in your above list. From your list below, I assume the next to last number ("50") is the STFL payout, correct? Should it be "50"? ... or "80", as mentioned above?

1 Pair
2 Pair
3 of a Kind Straight Flush
Full House
4- 5 thru king
4- 2,3,4
4 Aces
SF
Royal Flush

Okay, so I gather that, subject to whatever the STFL value is ('80' or '50'), by combining the above list of hands with the above numeric list, we get the following paytable:

800 – ROYAL
50 – STFL ********** – possibly '80' ???
240 – 4OAK in ACES
120 – 4OAK in 2, 3, 4 (no kicker)
50 – 4OAK in 5 thru King (no kicker)
9 – FULL-H
5 – FLUSH
4 – STRAIT
3 – 3OAK
1 – 2-PAIR
1 – 1-PAIR Jacks or Better >>>>>>> I assume this is Jacks+, and not something else Kings+.

I don't want to start trying to figure this out until I know for certain what the paytable is, and I need to be gone briefly this afternoon, but will work on this as soon as I get back ... if you confirm the paytable for me, please.

Thanks.

Bill Velek

#2

Bill Velek wrote:

> traveler60657 wrote:
>
> FP = 1-1-3-4-5-9-50-120-240-50-800 (99.24% - 43.0 VAR).
>
> This game is like Triple Bonus Poker Plus, except that straight
> flushes return 80 (rather than 100).

First of all, I don't see a "80" or even "100" in your above list
...
I don't want to start trying to figure this out until I know for
certain what the paytable is ... if you confirm the paytable for me,
please. Thanks. Bill Velek

Bill, I think it's safe to assume that the guy mispoke himself and
that when he wrote "return 80" he meant to type "50".

This paytable is the same one that's provided in the VP Glossary entry
for this game and it evaluates to the stated 99.24% ER.

But I suppose that before going to some work on this you'd like to be
absolutely certain.

- Harry

#3

Harry Porter wrote:

Bill, I think it's safe to assume that the guy mispoke himself and
that when he wrote "return 80" he meant to type "50".

This paytable is the same one that's provided in the VP Glossary entry
for this game and it evaluates to the stated 99.24% ER.

Maybe not, Bill, I see where Howard Stern writes that "the SF usually
pays 400 in WHA".

Guess you were right on the nose when questioning the paytable in the
original post and this is an occasion where I should have kept my trap
shut :).

- H.

#4

Harry Porter wrote:

Bill, I think it's safe to assume that the guy mispoke himself and
that when he wrote "return 80" he meant to type "50".

I modified this reply almost an hour ago, but it seems to have
vaportized.

I noted that in a post by Howard Stern that he refers to the "80" as
the standard WHA SF pay. In light of this, it was best that Bill
confirmed the paytable in question (and I might have best kept my trap
shut on this one :slight_smile:

- H.