Right Adjustments to Double Double Bonus Poker

June 30, 2014 by

double-double-bonus-pokerAs one of the most popular variations of Jacks or Better, Double Double Bonus Poker requires an understanding of the major differences in how the paytable works. Things are more geared towards the stronger hands with value taken away from the lower end of the paytable, but you can still get a payout rate in the neighborhood of 99 percent if you play well. It’s a good game for people who know basic strategies but who want a game with a higher volatility and more opportunities to get high-end payouts.

Payout Differences in Double Double Bonus Poker

With Double Double Bonus Poker, there are large payouts as high as 400x for several of the four of a kind hands. On top of that, a full house is worth a higher-than-usual 10x payout. To compensate for that, two pair hands are only worth a 2x payout, and a straight flush has a slightly lower payout of 50x.

How to Adjust to This Game

What you’ll notice in this game is that hands that can make a single pair or three of a kind gain value from the chances of getting better four of a kind payouts. Two pair payouts are slightly lowered, and they don’t change things much. As a result, a high pair of aces is worth more than a high pair of kings, queens or jacks.

In this game, a single pair of aces is stronger than any two pair. This is the major change that you’ll need to make that will come up in your hands the most often. So if you have AAKK4 or AA227 or AA99K, you’ll always discard three and keep your single pair of aces. That’s how much value you’ll get from the better four of a kind payouts.

It’s also worth noting that three of a kind in aces is worth more than a made full house in this game, so if you have AAA88, for example, then you should actually break your house and go for the four of a kind.

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