{"id":122267,"date":"2022-02-01T09:22:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T17:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/?p=122267"},"modified":"2023-08-24T14:03:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T22:03:08","slug":"using-nsu-deuces-wild-strategy-for-pnsu-deuces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blog\/using-nsu-deuces-wild-strategy-for-pnsu-deuces\/","title":{"rendered":"Using NSU Deuces Wild Strategy for pNSU Deuces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

NSU is the 16-10-4-4-3 pay schedule of Deuces Wild that returns 99.728% when played well. \u201cpNSU\u201d (for pseudo<\/em> NSU) is the name Liam W. Daily and I used to describe the 15-9-4-4-3 Deuces Wild pay schedule that returns 98.913%. Our name is still seen out there sometimes, but the name Airport Deuces, among others, is a far more common nickname for this game. Some people prefer to call these games \u201cNSU (or pNSU) Deuces\u201d or \u201cNSU (or pNSU) Deuces Wild\u201d but I\u2019ve always preferred just NSU and pNSU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know NSU really well. I\u2019ve played it probably 5,000 hours over the years. Taught it several dozen times, including the Advanced Strategy with all the penalty cards perhaps ten times. I co-wrote the Winner\u2019s Guide for the game. And I still review the fine points periodically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

I haven\u2019t played at a casino where pNSU was a viable game to play for a long time. I once knew the major differences (and many of the minor ones) between these games but that\u2019s not the case anymore. I have an accurate strategy for pNSU in the Dancer\/Daily Winners Guide to NSU Deuces Wild, and it would take me a half-hour or so to get up to decent speed on this game. It would take much longer to play the game really well because there are many penalty card situations in this game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019d happily do this if there was a place to play this game. That\u2019s probably not the right way to say this. There are dozens of such places in Vegas, and hundreds of such places across the country. What I mean is places where this game, with the slot club and promotions, leads to a profitable game. I\u2019m not interested in playing where the house has the edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuscany Casino, in Las Vegas, had such a game for some time, up to a maximum bet of $45 per play of dollar Spin Poker, but as of January 1 of this year their slot club and promotions were butchered. I previously avoided this game at that casino for a variety of reasons, and now it\u2019s too late. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I recently received an out-of-town offer from a casino a couple of hundred miles away for $350 in free slot play, and according to www.vpfree2.com<\/a>, dollar pNSU was one of the better games offered. There was a time I would have jumped at that offer. These days, driving that far for that little isn\u2019t how I want to spend my time and energy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, extenuating circumstances sometimes crop up. This time, there was a Moth storytelling event where I wished to compete taking place about 30 miles from this casino. Plus, I have a new car I\u2019d been looking forward to taking on the road. All of a sudden, the decision wasn\u2019t about driving that far for so little, but rather, I get to do a couple of things I want to do and get paid a few bucks in the process. Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, is it worth learning pNSU well? I played with WinPoker and Excel and figured out that if I played pNSU using NSU strategy, that turns the 98.913% game into a 98.903% game. I eyeballed these numbers, moved the decimal point two spaces to the right in my mind, and realized if I played almost $10,000, I\u2019d be giving up $1 in equity. (Even those of you who are not math-savvy can do this one. Moving the decimal point two spots to the right means you\u2019re comparing $9,891 with $9,890. Those are numbers I\u2019m calling \u201calmost $10,000.\u201d) That means I\u2019d be giving up about a dime for every $1,000 coin-in and 3.5\u00a2 in equity for this particular promotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This made it a no-brainer. I spent no time at all learning pNSU strategy before my trip. I just went with what I knew. Had I been a player at Tuscany who played $40,000 per month on this game for as long as it lasted, you can bet I would have taken the time to gain more knowledge about it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are some who would argue that playing pNSU at a 99.9% accuracy level (which is what we\u2019re talking about when I\u2019m using perfect NSU strategy to play this game) is already playing at the professional level. Perhaps. But I\u2019ve always considered professional strategy to be higher than merely 99.9%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can easily imagine that learning this game well will be necessary sooner or later to take advantage of an opportunity, but that time isn\u2019t here yet. And I have other things I prefer to do with my time than merely spend time memorizing a game that I\u2019m not going to play in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NSU is the 16-10-4-4-3 pay schedule of Deuces Wild that returns 99.728% when played well. \u201cpNSU\u201d (for pseudo NSU) is the name Liam W. Daily and I used to describe the 15-9-4-4-3 Deuces Wild pay schedule that returns 98.913%. Our name is still seen out there sometimes, but the name Airport Deuces, among others, is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15763,"featured_media":6498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Using NSU Deuces Wild Strategy for pNSU Deuces by Bob Dancer","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[601,558,557],"tags":[561,810,688,1059,727,585,1006],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}