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Oct 22
Video Poker — Added the Video Poker Strategy Calculator — enter any five cards and pick one of 21 pay tables, from Jacks or Better to Joker Poker. It prices all 32 holds exactly, shows what your own hold gives up, and how the same cards are played on every other table.
Oct 22
Video Poker Strategy — Added the Video Poker Strategy Calculator — enter any five cards and pick one of 21 pay tables, from Jacks or Better to Joker Poker. It prices all 32 holds exactly, shows what your own hold gives up, and how the same cards are played on every other table.
Oct 22
Free Tools — Added the Video Poker Strategy Calculator — enter any five cards and pick one of 21 pay tables, from Jacks or Better to Joker Poker. It prices all 32 holds exactly, shows what your own hold gives up, and how the same cards are played on every other table.
Oct 21
Video Poker — Added Video poker odds — how often every hand comes up on 21 pay tables, a calculator for the odds of your own draw, the common draws counted out, and the chance of a royal in any number of hands.
Oct 20
Video Poker — Added Multi-hand video poker — how one deal plays out on many hands, a calculator for the whole bet and its swings on 20 pay tables, why the best hold doesn’t change, and the chance of a royal when 1 to 100 hands draw to one. It replaces the royal flush card in the basics.
Oct 15
Video Poker — Added Double Double Bonus strategy — the kicker awards and when the fifth card counts, a hand analyzer that prices all 32 holds on four standard pay tables, the good hands worth taking apart, and the 10/6 chart as 39 lines and four notes, checked against perfect play on all 2,598,960 deals.
Oct 15
Video Poker Strategy — Added Double Double Bonus strategy — the kicker awards and when the fifth card counts, a hand analyzer that prices all 32 holds on four standard pay tables, the good hands worth taking apart, and the 10/6 chart as 39 lines and four notes, checked against perfect play on all 2,598,960 deals.
Oct 14
Video Poker — Added Deuces Wild strategy — the first decision by deuce count, what a wild 2 changes, a hand analyzer that prices all 32 holds on four standard pay tables, four hands where the obvious hold is wrong, how NSUD’s strategy differs, and the full-pay chart as 44 lines by deuce count and one note, checked against perfect play on all 2,598,960 deals.
Oct 14
Video Poker Strategy — Added Deuces Wild strategy — the first decision by deuce count, what a wild 2 changes, a hand analyzer that prices all 32 holds on four standard pay tables, four hands where the obvious hold is wrong, how NSUD’s strategy differs, and the full-pay chart as 44 lines by deuce count and one note, checked against perfect play on all 2,598,960 deals.
Oct 12
Video Poker — Added Double Bonus strategy — the four standard pay tables, a hand analyzer that prices all 32 holds on each, four hands where Double Bonus parts from Jacks or Better habits, and the 10/7 chart as 44 lines and four notes, checked against perfect play on all 2,598,960 deals.
Oct 12
Video Poker Strategy — Added Double Bonus strategy — the four standard pay tables, a hand analyzer that prices all 32 holds on each, four hands where Double Bonus parts from Jacks or Better habits, and the 10/7 chart as 44 lines and four notes, checked against perfect play on all 2,598,960 deals.
Oct 11
Video Poker — Added Bonus Poker strategy — which bonus game you have, a hand analyzer that prices all 32 holds on 8/5, 7/5 and 6/5, the hands where the quad bonus tempts the wrong draw, what changes from Jacks or Better, and the 8/5 chart as 36 lines and two notes, checked against perfect play on all 2,598,960 deals.
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