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Reason #4 why the Wizard likes Bovada:
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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.
IQ Ludorum casino software review
Last Update: October 20, 2001
The following information on IQ Ludorum's downloadable software was taken from the London Casino.
Baccarat
Blackjack
- Eight decks
- Dealer stands on soft 17
- Double on any first two cards
- Doubling after splitting allowed
- No resplitting
- Player may not draw to split aces
- No surrender
- Dealer checks hole card for blackjack
- Betting limits: $5-$50, $100-$2000
These are the same rules as used by Cryptologic and so is the basic strategy.
The house edge under these rules is 0.49%.
Craps
The pass/come bettor may take 2 times odds on the 5,6,8, and 9; and 3 times odds on the 4 and 10. This results in a combined house edge of 0.57%. The don't pass/don't come bettor may lay 3 times the line bet on the 5,6,8, and 9; and 4 times odds on the 4 and 10. This results in a combined house edge of 0.43%.
For the player who likes to bet for or against the place numbers there are various ways to do it. The following table shows what the place, buy, don't place, and lay bets pay. The buy bets only charge the 5% commission on losing bets. The lay bets always charge the 5% commission relative to the amount won. The following odds are after deducting the commissions.
| Winning Odds on Place Number Bets | ||||
| Point | Place | Buy | Don't Place |
Lay |
| 4 | 9-5 | 40-21 | 2-5 | 19-41 |
| 5 | 7-5 | 30-21 | 4-7 | 19-31 |
| 6 | 7-6 | 24-21 | 4-5 | 19-25 |
| 8 | 7-6 | 24-21 | 4-5 | 19-25 |
| 9 | 7-5 | 30-21 | 4-7 | 19-31 |
| 10 | 9-5 | 40-21 | 2-5 | 19-41 |
The next table shows the house edge on all the various place number bets. A good rule of thumb is that the buy and lay bets are always better, except on the 6 and 8.
| House Edge on Place Number Bets | ||||
| Point | Place | Buy | Don't Place |
Lay |
| 4 | 6.67% | 3.17% | 6.67% | 2.44% |
| 5 | 4.00% | 2.86% | 5.71% | 3.23% |
| 6 | 1.52% | 2.60% | 1.82% | 4.00% |
| 8 | 1.52% | 2.60% | 1.82% | 4.00% |
| 9 | 4.00% | 2.86% | 5.71% | 3.23% |
| 10 | 6.67% | 3.17% | 6.67% | 2.44% |
The proposition bets pay the same odds as conventional craps.
Roulette
Video Poker
| IQ Ludorum Video Poker - Expected Returns | |
| Game | Return |
| Jacks or better | 0.995440 |
| Tens or better | 0.979598 |
| Joker wild | 0.979469 |
| Deuces wild | 0.979714 |
The following tables display the pertinent statistics for IQ Ludomum's video poker games.
| Jacks or Better | ||||
| Hand | Payoff | Number | Probability | Return |
| Royal flush | 800 | 493512264 | 0.000025 | 0.019807 |
| Straight flush | 50 | 2178883296 | 0.000109 | 0.005465 |
| 4 of a kind | 25 | 47093167764 | 0.002363 | 0.059064 |
| Full house | 9 | 229475482596 | 0.011512 | 0.103610 |
| Flush | 6 | 219554786160 | 0.011015 | 0.066087 |
| Straight | 4 | 223837565784 | 0.011229 | 0.044917 |
| 3 of a kind | 3 | 1484003070324 | 0.074449 | 0.223346 |
| Two pair | 2 | 2576946164148 | 0.129279 | 0.258558 |
| Jacks or better | 1 | 4277372890968 | 0.214585 | 0.214585 |
| Nothing | 0 | 10872274993896 | 0.545435 | 0.000000 |
| Total | 19933230517200 | 1.000000 | 0.995439 | |
| Tens or Better | ||||
| Hand | Payoff | Probability | Return | |
| Royal flush | 800 | 0.000026 | 0.020530 | |
| Straight flush | 50 | 0.000104 | 0.005180 | |
| Four of a Kind | 20 | 0.002357 | 0.047145 | |
| Full house | 6 | 0.011493 | 0.068955 | |
| Flush | 5 | 0.010670 | 0.053350 | |
| Straight | 4 | 0.012386 | 0.049544 | |
| Three of a Kind | 3 | 0.074218 | 0.222653 | |
| Two Pair | 2 | 0.128936 | 0.257872 | |
| Tens or Better | 1 | 0.254368 | 0.254368 | |
| Nothing | 0 | 0.505443 | 0.000000 | |
| Total | 1.000000 | 0.979598 | ||
| Joker Wild | |||
| Hand | Payoff | Probability | Return |
| Natural Royal Flush | 800 | 0.000025 | 0.019773 |
| 5 of a kind | 200 | 0.000093 | 0.018583 |
| Wild Royal Flush | 100 | 0.000104 | 0.010395 |
| Straight Flush | 50 | 0.000596 | 0.029788 |
| 4 of a Kind | 15 | 0.008505 | 0.127570 |
| Full House | 8 | 0.015625 | 0.125001 |
| Flush | 5 | 0.015852 | 0.079259 |
| Straight | 3 | 0.016871 | 0.050613 |
| 3 of a Kind | 2 | 0.133296 | 0.266592 |
| 2 Pair | 1 | 0.110667 | 0.110667 |
| Kings or Better | 1 | 0.141228 | 0.141228 |
| Nothing | 0 | 0.557139 | 0.000000 |
| Total Return | 1.000000 | 0.979469 | |
| Deuces Wild | ||||
| Hand | Payoff | Number | Probability | Return |
| Natural royal flush | 800 | 451963644 | 0.000023 | 0.018139 |
| 4 deuces | 200 | 3745487652 | 0.000188 | 0.037580 |
| Wild royal flush | 20 | 35864159688 | 0.001799 | 0.035984 |
| 5 of a kind | 15 | 62385447048 | 0.003130 | 0.046946 |
| Straight flush | 9 | 99367373148 | 0.004985 | 0.044865 |
| 4 of a kind | 4 | 1225731582828 | 0.061492 | 0.245967 |
| Full house | 4 | 522145872600 | 0.026195 | 0.104779 |
| Flush | 3 | 408462003072 | 0.020492 | 0.061475 |
| Straight | 2 | 1152851681184 | 0.057836 | 0.115671 |
| 3 of a kind | 1 | 5348224877136 | 0.268307 | 0.268307 |
| Nothing | 0 | 11074000069200 | 0.555555 | 0.000000 |
| Total | 19933230517200 | 1.000000 | 0.979714 | |
See my casino index for a list of sites that use IQ Ludorem software. The URL for IQ Ludorem is www.oddson.com.