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The player should play the 2-card hand which appears highest on the following list. If the remaining two cards form a hand with expected value greater than zero (rank 26 or higher) then the player should split and play it as well. The expected values on this list are rough, intended only to convey the order of hands. The table below assumes the player does not make the side bet. If the player did make the side bet the strategy would indeed change. 1.Select 2 of the 4 cards you receive to play. Or you may split your 4 cards and create two, 2-card hands. 2. The dealer "flops" 5 common cards. Using these 5 cards plus your 2 cards, make the best 5-card poker hand possible. 3.Beat the dealer's hand to win. (Dealer takes push).
4. Feeling lucky? Place an optional wager in the Shootout Bonus circle 5. If your hand is one of the rankings listed on the Shootout Bonus paytable, you're an instant winner. 6. The Shootout Bonus is independent of the primary Texas Shootout wager. You can win the Shootout Bonus even if your hand is not greater than the dealer's.
like to analyze games with a direct combinatorial analysis whenever I can. However, the number of possible combinations in this game is 2,980,936,261,442,170,000,000,000,000. Even with the best of short cuts, a perfect analysis would likely take months or years for a computer to crank through all the combinations by brute force. So, for this game, a random simulation was clearly in order. One benefit of random simulations is the analyst must quantify a strategy for the program to follow, as opposed to a brute force program which can figure out the right strategy on the fly, but then quickly forget it when the hand is over. The 2-card hand ranking strategy is what I came up with. As stated above, it may not be perfect, but if I were to figure out the penalty card exceptions the number of people in the world that would likely learn them is zero. Anybody with that kind of dedication to perfect play would likely be playing blackjack or video poker instead, in which the player can have an advantage. |
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