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Bob Dancer: Video Poker
IA Quick Quads Quiz
just made up a quiz concerning 9/6 Double Double Bonus Quick Quads. Although the quiz won’t seem too di cult, I personally would have missed one of these questions earlier this year. If you’ve learned everything you know about Quick Quads from my writing, you’ll miss the same one.
is quiz concerns dealt full houses where the 3-of-a- kinds are “special,” namely 2, 3, or 4. For these ranks, normal 4-of-a-kinds and all Quick Quads pay 400, and
4-of-a-kinds with a kicker pay 1,000. Don’t be concerned with the suits. ey aren’t a factor in your decisions.
For each of the following dealt full houses, all you have to decide is whether it’s correct to hold 3, 4, or 5 cards.
Holding 333A, you have 4 out of 47 chances to get a Quick Quad. at’s 11.5 times as good as 8 out of 1,081. You also have 4 out of 47 chances to get 3s and a kicker, which is also a higher percentage than you get
just holding 333.
D: Hold 3 cards. is is a case where the cards in the
pair can neither be part of a Quick Quad, nor part of a kicker quad.
E: Hold 5 cards. is is the only full house containing 3 threes where you hold 5 cards. is is the one I just
learned.
F: Hold 4 cards. Same logic as in C, only here it is
a closer decision. If you just hold 444 from this hand, thereare8waystodrawa3andanace,butalso6ways to draw a pair of deuces.
G: Hold 5 cards. If you missed this, shame on you! is is a Quick Quad. Too
bad I couldn’t gure out a way to add sound e ects to this article.
H:Hold3cards.
One question is: Where did I learn to hold all 5 cards from 33344? e answer is: The Wizard of Odds’ Video Poker Strategy Calculator
A. 22233
B. 22255
C. 333AA
D. 33355
E. 33344 F. 444AA G. 44422 H. 44455
A and B: Hold ve cards. In most video poker games
based on Double Double Bonus, 222, 333, and 444 all have equal values. Not so in Quick Quads. e value of each 3-of-a-kind includes
how easy it is to get Quick
My goal is to play each game at the 100% accuracy level. When I nd a new tool that presents the data di erently than other tools do, I use it to see if there is a hole in my
knowledge somewhere.
is particular hand doesn’t come up too frequently.
33344 is a hand that only comes up every 108,290 hands, whichisaboutonceevery200to250hoursofQuickQuads play for me. I don’t keep a running log of the number of hours I play, but I’ve played this game a lot and probably have had the hand three or four times. I don’t speci cally remember it, but prior to now I would have simply played
333, which is what my previous strategy said to do. Someofmyreadersnolongerfeeltheneedtostudy.I
truly hope I never get to that point.
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Quads. To get a Quick Quad from 222, you need to draw a pair of aces. ere are only 6 ways you can draw a pair of aces out of the 1,081 possible draws. Better to keep the full house.
C: Hold 4 cards. To get a Quick Quad from 333, you need to get a deuce and an ace. If you threw away both aces
“My goal is to play each game
at the 100% accuracy level.
When I find a new tool that
presents the data differently
than other tools do, I use it
toseeifthereisaholeinmy (http://wizardofodds.
knowledge somewhere.”
com/games/video-poker/ strategy/calculator/). is is a valuable tool available to all of us for free. I heard
you’d have 8 chances to draw a deuce and an ace out of the 1,081 possible draws. While that’s an improvement over what you’d get from 222, you can do much better.
about this for the rst time in early May and have been looking at the Basic Strategy Exceptions for many of the games I play.
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