I received a phone call from a very good friend — who isn\u2019t a video poker expert. He\u2019s the kind of person I\u2019m willing to help basically an unlimited amount for free. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He asked about using the \u201cuser defined games\u201d section of WinPoker to add Deuces Bonus Poker (DWB). He didn\u2019t see any way to enter a game with wild cards using that feature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWell,\u201d I told him, \u201cYou\u2019re correct that you can\u2019t enter such a game using user defined games, but fortunately the game is already included. If you\u2019re looking for \u201cDeuces Bonus\u201d you won\u2019t find it, but if you\u2019re looking for \u201cBonus Deuces,\u201d you will.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sure enough, he found it easily, and was embarrassed he couldn\u2019t find it before he called me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I asked him if he could share where he found a playable DWB game. I knew he wouldn\u2019t be playing for small stakes, and he wouldn\u2019t be playing if he didn\u2019t think he had the advantage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sometimes players aren\u2019t willing to share such information, figuring that more skilled players who know about a particular play will kill the game. Still, we do favors back and forth so maybe he\u2019d share with me this time. (And maybe not. He\u2019d still be my friend if he felt he couldn\u2019t share this particular game.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s actually an Ultimate X (UX) game. I\u2019m trying to run coin-in at a casino in case I can\u2019t find enough slot plays there. It\u2019s not a positive play by itself, but enough coin-in gets you good mailers. Playing that game exclusively would be too expensive of a way to earn the mailers, but if it only averaged 20% or so of your play (with the rest being slots), it would be a good filler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI know UX games are played differently than regular video poker,\u201d he continued, \u201cbut I don\u2019t know the DWB game at all and wanted to get a feeling for it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I told him he was going about it wrong. The strategy for UX DWB is much<\/em> different from regular DWB — primarily because when you get a straight flush in UX DWB, you get a 12x multiplier on the next hand. So you play for straight flushes MUCH more often in the UX game than you do in the regular game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I do not have a UX DWB strategy. If I felt I needed to play that game, I\u2019d have to buy the strategy from somebody else — and I currently don\u2019t have anyone I know who can make one — or use the VP PRO strategy analyzer on videopoker.com to figure it out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The VP PRO strategy analyzer requires a monthly or annual fee to use. It allows you to get correction on several games that WinPoker doesn\u2019t — and one of those games is UX. <\/p>\n\n\n\n You can play the game, get correction when you are wrong, and ask it the correct play for any hand with any \u201csum of multipliers (SOM).\u201d It\u2019s a lot of work to create a strategy using this tool, but it\u2019s the best way to do it for those of us without access to advanced programming skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The difficulty with UX for any game is that the strategy changes for different SOMs. Consider the Triple Play version. Multipliers can range from 1x to 12x for each hand — meaning the SOM can range from 3x to 36x. There are hands you play the same for all SOM levels (like a dealt straight flush, for example) and there are hands that you play differently at low SOMs and high SOMs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n To cover all possibilities, you need to create 30+ strategies. Which is not a trivial feat. Five Play SOMs range from 5x to 60x, so that means 50+ strategies. For Ten Play you need a different approach because VP PRO doesn\u2019t cover that game. It\u2019s far too complicated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When I played UX, I used a simplified strategy for each game — created by someone who I\u2019m not in touch with anymore. It was complicated, but manageable. I don\u2019t play the game anymore because the games I have the strategy for (like 9\/6 Double Double Bonus UX Ten Play) do not exist anywhere that I know about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m not sure my message was welcome news to my friend, but it kept him from wasting his time practicing something that wasn\u2019t going to do him any good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I received a phone call from a very good friend — who isn\u2019t a video poker expert. He\u2019s the kind of person I\u2019m willing to help basically an unlimited amount for free. He asked about using the \u201cuser defined games\u201d section of WinPoker to add Deuces Bonus Poker (DWB). He didn\u2019t see any way to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15763,"featured_media":843442,"comment_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[601,558,557],"tags":[561,585],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/spinach-2.png?fit=500%2C300&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916735"}],"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=916735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916736,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916735\/revisions\/916736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}