One of the hallmarks of the Dancer\/Daily strategies, especially the advanced ones, is that they presume the player can follow simple logic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
An example of what I\u2019m talking about can be found in last week\u2019s blog, when we discussed the strategy for holding a solitary A with a JT <\/em><\/strong>in the same hand in the game 9-5 Triple Bonus Poker Plus. When we discussed a straight penalty (sp) to the JT<\/em><\/strong>, we limited the discussion to a 7, 8, or 9 and didn\u2019t include either a K or Q. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In many contexts, both a K and a Q are indeed sps to JT<\/em><\/strong>, but in this particular case, if one of these cards were in the hand, it would create an AKJT or AQJT 4-card inside straight. These two combinations (listed as ST4 3h1i) are higher ranking than either holding the solitary A or JT<\/em><\/strong>, so if the inside straight combination were present, we would never get to the A versus JT<\/em><\/strong> decision. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Daily and I assumed that understanding this sort of logic was part of the price of using advanced strategies. We included three easier strategies for each game so players could use the one they wanted. The advanced strategies yield better results, but it takes some work to master them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Liam W. Daily passed away a decade or so ago, so he is not involved in the current decisions of how to create strategies today. At the same time, I believe he and I together created a good methodology and I stick to it as much as I can. Today I\u2019m discussing an addition to our methodology that I can\u2019t know whether he\u2019d agree with or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I want to discuss a strategy in the same game as I did last week, but this time it involves hands that include unsuited AQJ. The default play for the lesser three strategies is to hold QJ on these hands. The advanced strategy outlines the cases where you hold the solitary A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Like last week, the A can have a flush penalty (fp) Likewise, the A can have straight penalties — either a 5 (a low straight penalty) or a 2, 3, or 4 (a kicker penalty). While the presence of one or more of these usually (not always) precludes the A from being chosen, I do not specifically mention them in the strategy. (You\u2019ll see why not!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n For the unsuited QJ there can be no flush penalties simply because the two cards aren\u2019t suited with each other. The relevant straight penalties are the 9 and 8, but not both in the same five cards. That would give us QJ98 which is explicitly listed (as ST4 2h1i) above both the A by itself and the unsuited QJ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the strategy, I break these hands down into three different parts — based on the number of the fps to the A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s the strategy in English — which is much too wordy to include in a strategy. Here is how I code it — never previously published and actually a work in progress as I\u2019ve found reason to tweak this a little even in the process of writing this blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n QJ (NEVER < A with two fp or worse)<\/p>\n\n\n\n (< A with exactly one fp or worse when 9 (< A with no fp, when 97 or 96)<\/p>\n\n\n\n A<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here are some example hands. If you\u2019ve mastered what I\u2019ve said here, it should be easy for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here are the answers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n How did you do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leading impetus for today\u2019s column is the strategy line of \u201c(NEVER < A with two fp or worse).\u201d So, what\u2019s so unusual about that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n What\u2019s unusual is that QJ > A is the default strategy. Advanced strategies generally only list the exceptions — namely the cases where QJ < A. So why did I include this line telling you to do the default?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Because of the next line — \u201c(< A with exactly one fp or worse when 9 And not just for you. I have a place where I play this game now, but it could easily go away for one of a variety of reasons. In that case, my strategy will stay in a computer folder until the next time I find that game and decide to play it. My memory isn\u2019t what it used to be, and I might have forgotten what I meant by \u201cfp or worse\u201d way back in the summer of 23.So, I added the redundant line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the hallmarks of the Dancer\/Daily strategies, especially the advanced ones, is that they presume the player can follow simple logic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15763,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[601,557],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839896"}],"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=839896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}})<\/s> — \u201cor worse\u201d — meaning a straight flush penalty (sfp — specifically a 5) or a straight flush kicker penalty (sfkp —specifically a 2, 3, or 4). These fps will be front and center in the strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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p<\/s> or 87 or 86).\u201d This line includes the new phrase, to me, of \u201cor worse.\u201d Anybody else using this strategy might forget what I mean by fp or worse — namely fp or sfp or sfkp. If you weren\u2019t exactly clear on the definition, you might easily conclude that two fps qualifies as \u201cexactly one fp or worse.\u201d Obviously two fps are worse than one, but I am not using \u201cor worse\u201d in that context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n