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the video poker pay tables.You’d want to jot down the tables available so you can go back to the sites that have the best versions of your favored games. I can’t give you any shortcuts. Online gambling remains illegal in the state where I live, so I don’t have access to legal sites in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware to compile a list. Your method of checking out machines before you play in live casinos is smart. I once found 25-cent Double Bonus Poker machines with 10-7-5,9-7-5,9-6-5 and 9-6-4 pay tables in the same casino.At a different casino, I found 9-6 Double Double Bonus Poker with a pro gressive jackpot less than 20 feet away from 7 5 DDB with no progressive. I can’t guarantee you’ll find differences that large in an online comparison, but it seems worth a look. QUESTION #2: I was playing video poker for fun on one of those free casino apps, and they had a game called Double Double Jack pot Poker. It looked a lot like Double Double Bonus Poker, but with some key differences. The jackpot on four aces and a kicker was 1,600 coins (per five wagered), and the kickers were kings, queens and jacks instead of 2s, 3s or 4s.The hands that paid 400 with out a kicker or 800 with one were face cards instead of 2s through 4s. Instead, 2s through 4s paid 250 like 5s through 10s.Straights paid 25 instead of 20. Other than that, it was like Double Dou ble Bonus, with a 9-6 pay table and every thing. I had a good time playing it. I got the aces with a kicker, four queens without,and a couple other four of a kinds. Is this a new game? Do you know anywhere you can play it for money? ANSWER: Double Double Jackpot Poker is far from new. It was originally marketed in the early 1990s by Sigma Games, which no longer exists.
The pay table you describe returns 100.34 percent with expert play. I’m sur prised to hear of its existence even in a free play venue. I remember playing it in casinos long ago, but I’ve not seen it in ages. Making face cards the kicker cards and the second tier of four of a kind pays behind aces is a huge plus for players.You’ll get four of a kind with faces more often than with low cards because you’ll often hold a single face but never a single 2, 3 or 4.You’ll draw four aces with a kicker more often because you’ll often ace-face but never ace-low. QUESTION #3: How can there be royal flushes more often in some video poker games than others? Do they use different decks with different numbers of high cards for more or fewer royals?That’s not really ran dom, is it? ANSWER: Game makers don’t make the difference on how often royals occur.Players and strategies do. Players chase royals more aggressively in some games more than others. Let’s use Double Bonus Poker as an ex ample.The best-paying versions pay 7-for-1 on flushes instead of the 6-for-1 or 5-for-1 paid on other games. Because of that, we often save partial flushes that take us out of the running for a royal. Dealt 8-queen-ace of hearts,a 7 of spades and a 3 of diamonds in 9-7-5 Double Bonus, the best play is to hold all three hearts. In 9-6 Jacks or Better,with a lower flush return,we’d hold just the king and queen,leaving open the long shot at a royal. Such strategy differences lead to differ ent royal frequencies:one per 48,035 hands in 9-7-5 Double Bonus, one per 43,423 hands in 25-15-9-4-4-3 DeucesWild,and one per 40,391 hands in 9-6 Jacks or Better. Cards are dealt randomly, but player strategies lead to each game and each pay table having its own frequency of winning hands. ✤
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