Nudge, I think you are misreading the Wizard's line 13. He does say hold one pair with a kicker but as the examples show, he means along with the pair, hold two cards which together could result in a QQ. The term kicker as he is using it is a little misleading, since we usually think of it as being one card. The hands where a single card kicker is held are covered in line 22.
Hask
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> QQ games were never high on my list of games to learn. I dabbled in it on 8-5 TB+ and 9-6 DDB when the games first appeared but the volatility shortened this fad for me. Recently, I spotted a single machine in a casino where this is their best return game. They don’t even offer 9-6 JOB on any of their other games, but with slot club bennies, I might be able to justify limited play. I located strategy files that I had saved in the pewter a couple years ago, and started to bone up on what changes to make to the standard game. While comparing the Dancer/Richards strategy with the one from Mr. Shackelfod at the Wizard of Odds, I noticed a major discrepancy between the two. The Dancer/Richards chart does not recommend holding a kicker with QQ potential with a single pair of 6’s thru 10’s but the strategy provided by the Wizard does say to hold one, as long as it is not half value. I can only assume that one of these strategies is right and one is wrong. I have no tools to determine which is right. I am hoping that someone my have run into this before and has researched the answer and can provide it here. Thanks in advance.
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