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Double Bonus Poker Strategies: 10/7 versus 9/7

Full pay (10/7) Double Bonus Poker returns 100.17% with perfect play, however, these machines can be difficult to find. More common are 9/7 Double Bonus games returning 99.1% with perfect play. While the strategy for playing Double Bonus is more complex than for Jacks or Better, it is simple to switch between the full-pay and 9/7 strategies.

There are only four changes between the two and three of them combined amount to just over one one-hundredth of a unit. The one to remember on a 9/7 game is to save a pair of Aces before saving two pair. This difference amounts to seven hundredths of a unit. Just remembering this one change will allow you to play within about one one-hundredth of a unit of perfect strategy.