Double Bonus Poker

Double Double Bonus Poker includes all sorts of bells and whistles to help you enjoy a more personalized video poker experience. You can do things like enter full-screen mode, adjust the speed of the software, and control the SFX from Player Options. Double Double Bonus Poker Classic features the most authentic Double Double Bonus video poker with real card shuffling, casino paytable, real dealing, skills trainer, and the full Las Vegas experience. With the MOST REALISTIC casino experience, and the BEST FEATURES, Double Double Bonus Poker Classic is a must download! Double Double Bonus Poker, the kicker is actually important to be aware of, unlike in other video poker variants. If you refer to the payout table above, you can see that four aces with a 2, 3, or 4 as a kicker will pay you 400 coins. Subsequently, four 2s, 3s, or 4s with an A, 2, 3, or 4 kicker pays out 160 coins.

The four aceswith any 2, 3, or 4 will pay 1.6 times better than Royal Flush on any 1-thru-4 credits wager; on the 5-credit bet, the same hand will pay 8 times more than Straight Flushand half of Royal Flush. No way! Four of a Kind is a hand which pays ten times less than Royal Flush on 1-thru-4 credits wager and 32 times less on 5-credit bet in Jacks or Better, so it’s impossible! Well, not in Double Double Bonus Poker.

Welcome to poker variant with the enticing paytable and optimal strategy return of 98.9808 percent. The epicenter of generosity is at Four of a Kind hand. On one credit wager, this hand will pay:

• 50 credits on four 5s thru kings;
• 80 credits on four 2s, 3s, and 4s;
• 160 credits on four Aces, OR four 2s, 3s, and 3s with any Ace, 2, 3, or 4;
• 400 credits on four Aces with any 2, 3, or 4.

Of course, it’s much easier to read than to get any of these hands — and therein begins all the fun, joy, and excitement of playing this game.

As is the case with any poker variant, the foundations of potentially successful outcome lay in the proper introduction to Double Double Bonus Poker strategy and “the reasonable ways to play a hand,” including combinations, probability, and returns.

The remaining part of equitation is to play and practice, which is exactly where the Wizard of Odds’ variant enters the picture, allowing you to play free with 10,000 credits while you improve your skills with built-in Personal Game Advisor — or to do it with real money.

Similar to any conventional video poker game over here, Double Double Bonus Poker layout is simple, clean, and informative.

The fabled paytable is situated at the top of the screen, with visible notification about wager value you selected. The BET ONE button, positioned at the bottom of your screen, enables you to slide effortlessly and bet between 1 and 5 credits per hand.

If you feel like going all the way to the highest wager, you can click on BET MAX field, though bear in mind that the hand is automatically dealt afterward when you use this option.

The cards — neatly branded with Wizard of Odds visuals on their backs — will be dealt in the lower part of your screen, right above the info on bet size and bankroll.

If you’re into more rapid mode of play, you can increase the rhythm by pressing SPEED button, while you can quickly switch to any other video poker option by selecting MORE GAMES: quite functionally, you’ll be able to play another game in the same playground (small white letters at the lower-left corner will inform you about selected variant).

New cards will appear whenever you press DEAL or DRAW buttons whilst you can select those you wish to keep by clicking on HOLD.

The educating segment of Double Double Bonus Poker game comes in the form of the Personal Game Advisor with two useful features, enabling you to improve your overall poker understanding and skills.

Atop of game layout, there is a “Warn on strategy errors” box. By enabling it, you activate a pop-up window which serves to let you know there is a better move to play and acts as a free advisor on strategy errors.

Moreover…

Once you’ve been dealt your cards, the ANALYZE button appears on the control strip. When you click on it, another pop-up window leads you into the statistical overview of all options applied to your current hand and in line with wager and paytable.

If you choose to use the advice, you can click at the hand and the game deals the cards. If you opt to select those you’d like to hold manually, just press RETURN TO GAME.

Featuring a balanced pack of the rewarding game with useful tips to improve your poker mastery, Double Double Bonus Poker is the interesting option both for aspiring and experienced players. Both groups will find something to build upon and add an extra edge to their game.

The remaining ingredients of great fun and entertainment — in the form of responsibility and awareness — are to be brought to the table by relaxed players, looking to enjoy poker simplicity at its best.

Good luck!

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How to score big payouts while avoiding the pitfalls

By Henry Tamburin

The larger payoffs come at a price; namely, the payoff for two pair is only even money (or 1 to 1). By transferring some of the game’s payouts from the more frequent two pair to the less frequent four-of-a-kind, it becomes a much more volatile game.

Double Double Bonus Poker (DDB) is the most popular video poker game in the country. That’s because it’s possible to hit several big payouts besides the royal flush, and this draws players to the game. Unfortunately, there are also some pitfalls to playing DDB, which most players are not aware of.

Table 1 summarizes the different pay schedules for DDB that you are likely to encounter. The first thing that should jump out at you is the amount of the payoffs for four-of-a-kind hands. They are rather large payoffs, especially if the fifth card in the hand (the “kicker”) is a specific card.

For example, the payoff for four Aces is 160 times your bet but if the kicker is a 2, 3, or 4, the payoff jumps to 400 coins. (That’s a 2000-coin payoff, or one-half the payoff for a royal flush, betting the maximum of five coins.) Likewise, the payoffs for four 2s, 3s, and 4s increases from 80 to 160 coins times your bet with an Ace, 2, 3, or 4 kicker. These mini-jackpots are the magnet that attracts players to this game.

What most players don’t understand is the larger payoffs come at a price; namely, the payoff for two pair is only even money (or 1 to 1). By transferring some of the game’s payouts from the more frequent two pair to the less frequent four-of-a-kind, it becomes a much more volatile game (more about this shortly).

Tabl1 also summarizes the ER for the different DDB pay schedules (bottom of each column). The best DDB game pays 10 coins for a full house and 6 coins for a flush per coin played (see Table 1). The Expected Return (ER) for 10/6 DDB is 100.07%, meaning the player would have a tiny advantage over the house if he played every hand perfectly.

There are many casinos in the Las Vegas area that offer 10/6 DDB. (Just go to either www.vpfree2.com or the video poker page on www.lasvegasadvisor.com to obtain a list of casinos that offer 10/6 DDB at different denominations.) Unfortunately, 10/6 DDB is not readily available in other areas of the country. (Partly the reason for this in that in some gaming jurisdictions, casinos can’t offer a game where the ER is over 100%). Nevertheless, it behooves you to find a casino that has at least the 9/6 DDB pay schedule, which has a 98.98% ER. (I wouldn’t recommend playing the 9/5 or 8/5 DDB games because the ERs are woeful. Again, check www.vpfree2.com for a list of casinos outside Las Vegas that offer 9/6 DDB.)

The high volatility of DDB results in most players going broke rather quickly if they are not lucky enough to hit one of the high payoff hands. In other words, most players play DDB undercapitalized. For example, supposed you were to play 9/6 Double Double Bonus instead of the much less volatile 8/5 Bonus Poker (BP). Both games have roughly a 99% expected return (ER) but the variance for 9/6 DDB is much higher (41.99) compared to 8/5 BP (20.90) Let’s assume you have a $200 bankroll and you want to play for two hours (1000 hands). By using the bankroll function in the Video Poker for Winners software program, you can determine what your chances are of going broke for each game. The results are:

Playing the low-volatile 8/5 Bonus Poker, you will lose your $200 stake only 2.55% of the time on average (that’s roughly 1 out of every 40 sessions).

Playing the more volatile 9/6 Double Double Bonus Poker, you will lose your $200 stake 28.66% of the time (that’s roughly 11 out of every 40 sessions you’ll tap out).

This means you are 11-times more likely to tap out with your $200 bankroll if you play 9/6 DDB instead of 8/5 BP. The point is this: Video poker games that are highly volatile (such as Double Double Bonus) require more bankroll to prevent going broke. (Also, your “emotional” bankroll will be tested in games that are highly volatile because you can experience some long “dry spells”.) Let me repeat this so it sinks in: DDB is very volatile.

Assuming you have the bankroll and the stomach to play DDB, you should master the playing strategy before you risk any money. The playing strategy for DDB is tricky because of the importance of the ace (see my Tip of the Month). You’ll find a playing strategy for DDB on the video poker page at www.wizardofodds.com. You should also consider practicing the strategy at home with video poker training software until your playing accuracy is at least 99% before risking money in a casino. (I recommend Video Poker For Winners or Optimum Video Poker training software, both available on my web site.) I also recommend that you purchase the DDB strategy card by Dancer and Daily and take it with you when you play so that if you are not sure how to play a hand, you can refer to the strategy card.

TABLE 1

Double Double Bonus Poker Pay Schedule

Payout Per Coin Played

* 4000 coins for a five-coin royal flush

Tamburin Tip of the Month

You are playing Double Double Bonus and are dealt the following two hands. How would you play them?

You should break up the full house in the first hand, hold only the three aces, and draw two more cards. In the second hand, you break up the two pair, hold the pair of aces, and draw three cards.

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Henry Tamburin is a blackjack and video poker expert. He is the host of the smartgaming.com website and the editor of the Blackjack Insider newsletter (for a free three-month subscription, visit www.bjinsider.com/free). For a free copy of his Casino Gambling Catalog, which contains books, strategy cards, and software for video poker players, call toll free 1-888-353-3234, or visit the web store at smartgaming.com.