Originally Posted by
Alan Mendelson
Let's talk about the example of a full house with three aces in 7/5 bonus. Your strategy is to hold the three aces and your strategy, if I recall, is based on single line machines.
Recently I played a 50-line machine and I was dealt AAA-TT ... a full house with three aces and the pay table on the 50-line machine was also 7/5.
So I sat there a moment and "did the math" and considered the correct conventional play (hold the full house) and hold just the three aces (your play).
Holding the dealt full house the pay was $1750 (it was a $1 game).
Using your strategy, I considered these options:
1. At the worst, I would have trip aces worth $750
2, If I converted one of the hands to quads, I would have $400 + 49 X 15 = $1135
3. If I converted two of the hands to quads, I would have $800 + 48 X 15 = $1520
4. If I converted three of the hands to quads, I would have $1200 + 47 X 15 = $1905
I did not figure what would happen if I had drawn additional full houses while holding just the three aces because at best I would still be back at $1750.
So I was pretty darn lucky being dealt a full house for $1750. Tossing that out I would have to get really lucky to draw quad aces at least three times to beat it. But since there was only one ace left, and the odds of drawing a fourth ace was 1/47 on each hand and I would need at least three quad aces to beat the dealt jackpot, I held the dealt full house.
Yes, I was lucky enough and didn't want to make myself unlucky. of course it would have been different playing any number of other games, but this was 7/5 Bonus.