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Reason #4 why the Wizard likes Bovada:
One-Stop Shopping
Bovada offers the triple crown of gambling: casino, poker, and sports. Many other casinos have tacked on poker as an afterthought, and many poker rooms have tacked on a casino as an afterthought, and the lack of attention shows, sometimes painfully. And very few of these sites let you make sports wagers.
But Bovada doesn’t just offer all three, they do each one well, and everything’s integrated. It’s easy to play all three off one deposit, off just one account.
Another nice thing about Bovada is that you don’t need a separate account to play casino games with fake money. In fact you do not even need an account for that at all, you can just click over there and play. Finally, Bovada usernames are only six or seven characters long making them possible to remember. By contrast some competitors’ usernames are extremely long and cumbersome.
Double Draw Aces
Last Update: Oct 03, 2005
Double Draw Aces is a video poker variation I noticed at the Frontier on October 2, 2005.
The game plays like normal video poker except the player gets two draws if he keeps and retains two or more aces on the draw. After the first draw the player may elect to either keep the outcome of that draw or take a second draw. In the event the player chooses the second draw the cards obtained on the first draw will be inserted back in the deck. In other words it is like replaying the first draw, except the second draw is final.
The following table shows the possible outcomes under optimal player strategy. The lower right cell shows an expected returnof 96.26%.
| Double Draw Aces | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Hand | Probability | Pays | Return |
| Royal Flush | 0.000025 | 800 | 0.020028 |
| Straight Flush | 0.000096 | 50 | 0.004798 |
| Four A + 2-4 | 0.000110 | 400 | 0.043989 |
| Four 2-4 + A-4 | 0.000149 | 160 | 0.023773 |
| Four A | 0.000294 | 160 | 0.047074 |
| Four 2-4 | 0.000401 | 80 | 0.032046 |
| Four 5-K | 0.001736 | 50 | 0.086789 |
| Full House | 0.008680 | 5 | 0.043402 |
| Flush | 0.010221 | 4 | 0.040883 |
| Straight | 0.010670 | 3 | 0.032010 |
| Three of a kind | 0.083444 | 3 | 0.250333 |
| Two pair | 0.110352 | 1 | 0.110352 |
| Pair | 0.227143 | 1 | 0.227143 |
| Nonpaying hand | 0.546680 | 0 | 0.000000 |
| Total | 1.000000 | 0.962619 | |
The strategy is the same as normal for the specified pay table except as noted.
- Player should keep two aces over four to a straight flush after the deal.
- If the player keeps two aces after the deal then the player should stand with three of a kind or better on the first draw .
- If the player keeps three aces after the deal then the player should stand on any four of a kind on the first draw.
For those who may be interested the player will not get two aces or break them up 95.832% of the time, keep the first of two ace draws 0.517% of the time, and keep the second draw 3.651% of the time.
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