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Vegas Deuces Wild Help Needed!!! Two Questions

Help!
I'm going to Vegas on Monday and plan to play Deuces Wild Video Poker
almost exclusively.
I've been once before (actually hit a Royal on first trip...beginners
luck), but couldn't find full-pay 9/5 Deuces Wild VP machines. Which
casinos have full-pay Deuces Wild? I'm staying at Stratosphere.

Also, while studying strategy for Deuces Wild, I noticed that without a
deuce you don't keep two cards to the Royal Flush (with nothing else)
if one of those cards is an Ace. Why not? Maybe I'm misinterpretting
this, but why not keep A-K suited, A-Q suited A-J suited or A-10 suited
if you have nothing else going. As I understand it, you DO keep all
other Royal cards (K-Q, Q-J suited ect.) Why not A-High Card suited
ect?

open2anythingnow wrote:

I'm going to Vegas on Monday and plan to play Deuces Wild Video Poker
almost exclusively.
I've been once before (actually hit a Royal on first trip...beginners
luck), but couldn't find full-pay 9/5 Deuces Wild VP machines. Which
casinos have full-pay Deuces Wild? I'm staying at Stratosphere.

The vpFREE home page links to a page from which the LV location of a
variety of "positive" games can be found. For "full pay" deuces, that
page is at:
http://members.cox.net/vpfree/CDDW.htm

Also, while studying strategy for Deuces Wild, I noticed that without
a deuce you don't keep two cards to the Royal Flush (with nothing
else) if one of those cards is an Ace. Why not? Maybe I'm
misinterpretting this, but why not keep A-K suited, A-Q suited A-J
suited or A-10 suited if you have nothing else going.

The consideration of any hold vs. another takes into account not only
what can be formed on the draw but, by comparison, what possibilities
you pass up by undertaking the hold.

In the case of an A-x RF hold for FPDW, it should be recognized that
the opportunities for winning hands involving wild cards are
tremendously diminished.

The particular distinction between a suited A-x hold and other two
card RF holds is that it has only one possible resutling straight,
AKQJT. That, alone, turns out to be sufficient for a complete redraw
to have greater value than holding suited A-x.

- Harry

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Harry Porter" <harry.porter@...>
wrote:

Just wanted to thank those of you who replied. I understand better

now ( re: the A-x suited hold). Also, thanks to the links suggested,
I was able to find info on FPDW and LDW. Thanks again.

open2anythingnow wrote:
> I'm going to Vegas on Monday and plan to play Deuces Wild Video

Poker

> almost exclusively.
> I've been once before (actually hit a Royal on first

trip...beginners

> luck), but couldn't find full-pay 9/5 Deuces Wild VP machines.

Which

> casinos have full-pay Deuces Wild? I'm staying at Stratosphere.

The vpFREE home page links to a page from which the LV location of a
variety of "positive" games can be found. For "full pay" deuces,

that

page is at:
http://members.cox.net/vpfree/CDDW.htm

> Also, while studying strategy for Deuces Wild, I noticed that

without

> a deuce you don't keep two cards to the Royal Flush (with nothing
> else) if one of those cards is an Ace. Why not? Maybe I'm
> misinterpretting this, but why not keep A-K suited, A-Q suited A-

J

> suited or A-10 suited if you have nothing else going.

The consideration of any hold vs. another takes into account not

only

what can be formed on the draw but, by comparison, what

possibilities

you pass up by undertaking the hold.

In the case of an A-x RF hold for FPDW, it should be recognized that
the opportunities for winning hands involving wild cards are
tremendously diminished.

The particular distinction between a suited A-x hold and other two
card RF holds is that it has only one possible resutling straight,
AKQJT. That, alone, turns out to be sufficient for a complete

redraw

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to have greater value than holding suited A-x.

- Harry