Question of the Day - 17 February 2022

You've finally come to the right place. We handed this one off to Bob Dancer. 

First of all, NSU Deuces returns 99.73%, not 100.73%. And you were slightly off on the Loose Deuces return as well.

Here are the variances: 

FPDW (100.76%)              25.4

Loose Deuces (100.15%)  42.0   

NSU Deuces (99.73%)      25.8   

The reason Loose Deuces has such a higher variance (very similar to that of Double Double Bonus) is that so much of the return is in four deuces, which comes about every 4,664 hands on average. Four deuces in the other two games come less often (because you go for straight flushes more often when dealt one or two deuces), and when they do, they pay “only” 1,000 coins, rather than the 2,500 coins of Loose Deuces.