If you wanna play for fun, DDB is probably the better way to go, or even BP. That's a little more than 2x the loss on DDB overall. In JOB, even if you hit a royal every 2 cycles, you'll be at a 2.5% loss. If you play the same 1,000 hands (about 4 hours of play?), and run bad without any 4OAKS or better, you're losing about 22% of your action. But you also gotta take into account those other big hands like Aces+Kicker, Aces, or 2/3/4's with kicker. Without the royal, again, about 2.5% loser. You're at about ~9% loser at this point for the session.ĭDB is a 1% loser overall.

Let's say you play 1,000 hands (about 4 hours of play, right Alan?), run bad, and don't hit a four of a kind.

Most sessions you won't hit a royal (unless you play very long session, use a different strategy, and/or play multi-line). With Bonus there are those sessions when the right quads can give you a nice win.īut how often do you hit a royal? And if you are not hitting royals regularly, then any hiccup in the variance of JOB will kill you.JOB is a 0.5% loser overall. I consider that slow death while I consider JOB staying in the game as you wait for a royal. One game I've sworn off is any version of deuces wild. What has kept me away from JOB is the 'pain' of getting hands like AAAA and realizing it paid no more than 9999. A few weeks ago at Caesars I had a nice run of aces with kickers playing those games.

Sometimes I will try a DDB or TDB game - and sometimes I got lucky. So I switched to Bonus poker and its variation Aces and Faces which I thought was a good paying compromise between Jacks and the DDB and TDB games. Yeah, I once got dealt quad aces with a kicker twice in fifteen minutes (really, dealt) but there were too many sessions I never had a quad with or without a kicker. But - and it's a big but - the long wait between those bonus hands was too expensive. But it was the appeal of the bonus hands including quads with kickers that made me jump to Double Double Bonus and then Triple Double Bonus. I started on Jacks or Better just as probably everyone has. I think this is worth it's own thread because there are a lot of reasons you might favor the standard, basic Jacks or Better video poker game or the various Bonus games.

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