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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Bob Dancer <bobdancervp@...> wrote:
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> I'm currently playing double bonus deuces wild at Rio Vegas. When dealt a
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> have good pay schedules. Next door at the Gold Coast they have the 99.8%
> version of this game from 50�
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> edition of Wolf Video Poker) has a good strategy creation component. The
> problem is drawing to a single deuce gives you 178K possible draws and drawing
> to deuce ace gives you 16K draws. The strategy depends on which ones of those
> you are excluding from your calculations. If you are able to exclude a
> particular subset of hands because you know penalty card situations, the
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> different pay schedule than the game you are playing. Penalty card
> considerations are really pay schedule specific. The penalty cards (e.g. a
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> the ace) may or may not be the same when the pay schedule changes. In this case, the penalty card rules given to you doesn't stay the same with the different pay schedule. In the 99.8% game, holding 2 Ah Kh 7h 4c you
> just hold the deuce. In the 98.6% game you hold deuce ace king.
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