Poker Games

Bonus Deuce

When I first saw Bonus Deuces! at Sam's Town with a payoff of only 4-for-1 for quads, I thought it was just another variation designed to entice unwary players away from the full-pay machines. Due to the low estimated payback, I offered only a few obvious changes to the standard Poker Deuces Wild strategy. Many readers expressed an interest in this game, however, citing an article which projected a payback of up to 101.3%. As a result of this controversy, I did a complete analysis. The results surprised me. The payoff schedule, along with final hand probabilities with perfect play. Bonus Deuce

Poker Jackpot

Own often might you expect to hit a poker royal flush? This depends not only on luck but on how fast you play. An estimate used in one early book is four hands per minute (15 seconds per hand). From my own experience, and from watching others, I felt sure that the typical experienced player is much faster than that. To find out just how fast, I timed myself several times and found that I play anywhere from eight to 15 hands per minute depending on the machine and my mood. Poker Jackpot

Limit System

Pot Limit. As indicated, this popular poker limit system is exactly the way its name sounds: The maximum bet permissible at any particular time is the size of the pot at the moment. The only point of confusion arises when a player raises. An example will clear this up. Say the pot contains $10. Player A bets the pot, which now grows to $20. Player B wants to raise the maximum amount. First he calls player A's bet, which puts a total jackpot of $30 into the. Pot (the original $10 plus A's bet plus B's call). This is the maximum amount that B can raise. After Braises $30, player C can call and then raise $90.Limit System

Omaha Card Game

Omaha is played like Holdem except each poker player is dealt four cards in the hole instead of two. The real trick is to remember you must use two cards and only two cards from your hand and three from the community hand. The first round of betting begins with the player to the left of the dealer. As in Holdem, players cannot check in the first round. After the first round of betting, the dealer turns over the first three community cards the flop and there is another betting round. Omaha Card Game

Five Card Stud

It was sort of a graph down. Not a straight-line collapse. Ups and downs, but bigger downs. Football was just blowing me away. At the time it seemed almost supernatural. How could one man lose almost every game? I mean, sometimes I’d be winning until the last few seconds and then.., well, it was plain hopeless. Five Card Stud