hey everybody steve bourie here from the
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are going to be playing video poker and
joining me is matt bourie who’s the
editor of the american casino guide book
how’s it going everybody and today we’re
on video poker.com playing double double
bonus uh pull up the pay table here this
is nine six double double bonus you get
all your bonuses for four of a kinds
here
and uh
just gonna put this out here as a
disclaimer we’re playing in the training
mode right now steve and i have pretty
much no idea how to play this game we do
not play this game in casinos because
steve hates volatility
i do i have a general idea of how to
play this game so let’s see how close to
the real idea that actually is
yeah and that little stop light in the
corner is going to let us know if we’re
right or not well obviously here we got
to get a pair of fives i would think
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okay now one thing about double double
bonus this is the most popular game in
casinos when i go out to las vegas when
matt and i go out to las vegas it is the
most popular game more people play this
game but uh
it’s it’s a very volatile game because
there’s some rare hands and if you don’t
get the rare hands uh you’re gonna have
a terrible day
and and you need a bigger bankroll to
play with this because you could be
waiting a long time for those good hands
yeah because the main issue here is that
that uh two pair pays even money and two
pair happens quite a bit as you can see
right there paid five credits so let’s
keep going i think this is an easy one
i think we’re gonna go for four to the
flush
all right and then that little stop sign
there the green means yes you played
your hand correctly the yellow means oh
you made a minor error and the red means
oh boy you made a big mistake
i assume it’s this because i know if you
have i’m pretty sure in this game if you
have two off suit face cards and one of
them is an ace you only keep the ace
but since these two are suited you go
for that let’s go turbo mode
turbo
we’ll speed it up okay just the king
there i believe
look at this we are geniuses dad
well i wouldn’t go that far because
we’re going to get an ace up here at
some point and i think sometimes you
just keep one ace it’s uh
yeah yeah i’m waiting for that and i
know in this game i’m almost 99 sure
because i did years ago when i was
playing at a casino oh how many royal
flushes we gonna get dad i’m gonna say
none
you are correct i was playing this game
for a while back years ago at a casino
and i just briefly glanced over the
strategy just because it was the best
game they had and i was there for like a
day
i believe in this game if you get dealt
a full house
with three aces you throw away the full
house and go for four aces i believe
because of the donuts
actually we have the feature
in this game where we can pick any hand
i’m gonna pick that hand and see if that
is actually the case let’s see ace ace
ace
nine nine
deal it
so normally you would keep a full house
let’s see if it says this is wrong
it does slightly wrong slightly wrong so
you only keep the aces oh we did got
three of them there how about that
all right and bring up the pay table
again so everyone can see
and and one thing about this where uh
the kickers or what it’s important
uh or 180 if you get it with the kicker
then you’re up uh 2 000 from 800 to 2000
for 500 um with a kicker the kicker
being any of the small cards two three
or four uh the same thing happens it’s
it’s like regular bonus poker kind of
but better
so you are but not better but pays more
so the you can get the four races
without a kicker’s 800
quads of 234 is 400 so that’s the same
as bonus poker and then it just pays a
bit more and then the top of this pay
table here adds the kickers
so you can get four twos threes or fours
if you get it with an ace two three or
four it pays 800 instead of 400
and then if you get four aces with a two
three or four it pays 2 000 over here
instead of the 800. right and and
they’re going they give you good payoffs
there but they take it away in the uh
even money for two pair yeah
now the full pay version of this game
we’re we’re playing the less than full
pay uh is ten six so
can you play this in and bring up this
pay table one more time yeah so it’s it
would be this is nine six double double
bonus because it pays nine for a full
house and six for a flush uh the full
pay version steve was just talking about
is 10-6 so it pays 10 coins for a full
house instead of nine and that pays over
a hundred percent yeah slightly over a
hundred percent but that game is very
hard to find you may find it in some
casinos in nevada
maybe locals casinos
outside nevada you’re not going to find
that game
okay
well we’re getting pretty easy hands oh
here we go i didn’t even ask for this
one oh you know what it’s got to be that
feature it’s got to be that feature
where it’s replaying the one that i
played wrong earlier
two of them none with a kicker though
yeah when you have this gold membership
because normally you can go to
videopublic.com and play play for fun
you can put up you can get a free
account and they’ll show ads while you
play the other thing is you won’t be
able to know the strategy because you
have to upgrade your membership for that
but if you use our link down there video
poker.com acg
you will get a free 14 day gold
membership which is what we’re playing
here and you have the little stop light
on the on the side there so let you know
whether or not you played your hand
properly oh we got quads there look at
that oh look at that and uh the other
thing is you don’t have to put in any
credit card information if you went
there on your own you you would only get
a seven day membership and you’d have to
put in your credit card information and
if you didn’t remember to cancel it they
charge a card
but with this special link you can go
there and
sign up for 14-day travel v7 and you
have to put in any credit card
information yeah the other cool thing
you can do with that gold membership is
up here it says custom pays we can
enable that you can change to all these
different games and all these different
pay tables so if we go to double double
bonus here
you can see if we were to change it to
10.6 double double bonus it goes above
100 percent so it’s 100 point it’s
barely over a hundred percent but it is
above a hundred percent
and uh so but we’re gonna stay on this
nine six game here we’re gonna play for
a bit and then uh once we see i think do
you go inside straights in this game i
think you do right not but i i have no
clue
i guess you do that answers and look at
that you got a whole two of them
two out of 50. bet 250 credits we won 40
credits that’s like making money right
there that was
sad
okay yeah and then so we’re gonna play
this a bit make sure we know the general
idea of it and then we’re gonna go into
some of the other game modes uh without
the training and see if we can make the
leaderboard
so here you have the two suited cards so
jacks are better in bonus poker you’d
keep this i believe this is incorrect
and you keep just the ace though let’s
see yeah i think so yes just the ace
you really like steve said a lot of the
pay tables so here’s an inside straight
again let’s see is it inside straight
over one high card still
no it’s not one high card okay
as steve was saying earlier a lot of the
paid uh off of this game is towards the
top this is a top heavy payoff so the
more rare hands
pay more so you’re really fishing for
those four aces so a lot of times you’ll
throw away other stuff and hope for four
aces
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sixes i believe
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another quads we’re the best
you’re on fire
king ace i think
unless you’re in a real casino then it
doesn’t happen yeah no never all right
so again i believe it’s just the ace
here instead of ace jack
yep
if it was suited you keep both of them
though
yeah one thing you got to keep in mind
about video poker whenever gamble
changes
the uh strategy changes a little
and certainly depending on the game
whether you play if you were playing
jacks or better that’s different than
this especially goose’s wild is is very
different than the attacks are better
yeah you can you can if you’re playing
jacks or better or if you’re playing
bonus poker if you know the strategy for
one but all the casino your ad has is
the other you can pretty much use the
same strategy and get away with it and
still have a decent payoff
not in these those are pretty much the
only two games like if you if you went
from took a jackson better strategy and
tried to play that on deuces wild
you’d well because there’s wild cards so
of course it’s going to be terrible
and that’s one of the reasons we tell
people you shouldn’t uh because i’ve
seen people in the casino they’ll jump
from you know double bonus poker the
deuce is wild jacks are better the bonus
poker yeah they’ll play like a few hands
and then switch and it’s crazy to do
that because each time you know the
strategy changes so it’s good to try and
practice the same game whatever game you
like find the game you like
practice the strategy because there’s
always only one mathematically correct
way to play your hand in any given
situation and this is is how you learn
it from a program like this where it
tells you whether or not you played your
hand correctly yeah and another thing to
do is if you’re going out of town and
you’re not sure what games they have but
you want to know ahead of time what
games they have so that you can practice
uh there’s a great website called
vpfreenumber2.com so it’s
vpfreenumber2.com
you can go there steve and i go there
anytime we’re going on a trip uh we look
to see what games and they’ll tell you
all the game best games that are in the
casino it gives you a description of
where they are in the casino
oh man we are on fire with these four of
a kinds yeah until we get to the real
thing of the leaderboard oh no we’re
going to get four fours with
now do you keep the ace here as the
kicker i don’t think so well when you
have three of a kind and you’re drawing
a four of a kind you get your average
one out of 24 so you should get uh
i wouldn’t i don’t know if you keep the
a i’m pretty sure you don’t keep the ace
but let’s just do it and see hit the
draw button see what happens so you
would get one out of 24. okay so it did
yellow light so it wasn’t a terrible
mistake but let’s see
because you want to have you want to
have two chances at it
so yeah you should average uh two out of
fifty and there you go there’s your two
out of fifty
all right big winner though
that was a good one
well we are guaranteed to at least
triple up so we are guaranteed at least
- queen 10 is that in this game yep
yes all right so we’ve won we started
with 10 000 credits
we might not have because this game the
gold membership does track your progress
over time so no this one i believe i saw
it
started at 10 000. okay so we were
making a fortune here so now we’re gonna
go and switch to the other one
and uh i’m sure
sure we’re gonna get crushed here
probably we’re we’re going to try to
make a leaderboard uh what was it it was
super times pay
uh
it’s gold exclusive super times pace
super stacks
this is our favorite game here this this
crazy this is a stupid game that we love
not sure i would ever play it in the
casino because it’s very very streaky
but i don’t think i’ve ever seen it in a
casino no it’s a new one but you got you
got two different multipliers in here
yeah it adds the multiplier like let
regular super times pay
but then it also uh gives you extra
hands
so
but if you get one you get the other
automatically yeah so you’re always
going to get both so we are still in
double-double bonus right yes we’re
still in double-double bonus
let’s go so we started at about 15 000
there
you see over here on the right it says
your score for today we’re currently at
negative 85 credits
oh we can turn that around yes
okay we need to make the leader oh we
only need like 570 to be 10. yes isn’t
it
you can do that piece of cake
with these quads right here we’ll be
there
yeah let’s go how many none none
nope eight
eight
it’s just this two pair even money on
the two pair is just killer that’s why
we don’t like this game it’s too streaky
for our
our blood i like my volatility but not
this much volatility
well like i only get four inches you’ll
be fine
although i do love playing deuces wild
i don’t never actually looked at the
volatility if that’s more volatile than
this probably because in that game if
you don’t get deuces you get killed no
this is more volatile
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4678 uh we decided to keep the one hard
card over there
here we go okay so all right this
foolishness that i left 10 times
multiplier with 24 extra hands so we’re
getting 34 hands for the price of 10
hands with a ten times multiplier
well all we need is four of a kind now
royal flush royal flush we’re going for
it
this will be
this will
seal the deal 40 000 we’ll be on the
leaderboard here we go that would be
amazing let’s see
but you’re really dreaming oh come on oh
flush oh i saw the three i saw all those
zeros i thought we got it for a second
oh
but so we bet a hundred credits we won
650
from what is that two jacks or bettors
three four jacks or bettors one flush
and a two pair and two more jacks are
better so so we’re on the plus side our
score today 30 points we are 30 points
in the black build it up let’s go
two three three four five
wow that was pathetic that was
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five eight nine
i think so double inside straight flush
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we got the straight and the flush we
just needed them together in one game
in normal jacks are better double inside
straight flush is just
above nothing just above throwing
everything away
so it’s like the worst hand you can get
threes
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all right guess back in the plus column
here man
i’m trying yeah
like you said though as soon as we went
to where it matters i go straight to
straight to crap
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well it was you had a shot at it king 10
i think
yeah yeah because it paid six for a
flush right
are we still in nine six in this game
mode let’s see no yeah
three five six over an ace double double
bonus single insight yeah i guess keep
that bottom i would say keep the ace
that’s what i would think too
look how well that turned out for us
well it was a bad uh
king me king me
okay
getting a whole bunch of nothing here as
it always turns out yeah well you get
one multiplier and uh
you can turn it all around one
multiplier with a good hand
we got the multiplier we got the good
multiplier and the good extra hand bonus
we just didn’t get the good hand to go
with it unfortunately that’s the problem
with these games with these oh here we
go
we getting four aces gotta get one of
them here come on
come on
oh that’s garbage
look at that garbage
i was sure you were going to get one
there man of a kind of nathan
where was this with our 10 times
multiplier and 24 extra hands
come on a multiplier would be nice
we’re still in the hole here i can
hardly see that yeah 740 in the hole
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so oh i was going to say is this right i
think uh yeah with all three just the i
do not know
i say yes
okay
i’ll blame it on you
as you always do
queen nine queen nine
two of them not bad we won money
eights
hives
let’s see 8 9 10 queen i believe
i know inside straight is uh
the play with
yeah if even with the yeah because we it
worked even you kept the four card
inside straight over with the king you
threw away the king for it i believe so
no reason you wouldn’t keep the queen
with it
oh there’s a four of a kind
now we’re only a thousand in the hole
oh wow
like something
well we need a multiplier come on how
often are we supposed to get a
multiplier in this game do you know
more often than we did let’s see
uh one in 11 games uh something tells me
it’s been a bit more than 11 games
so it’s interesting though that if you
read the uh instructions there the help
section it tells you how often you are
expected to get it yes i believe it does
that in the casino too
queen jack
this game is boring with no
multipliers
this game’s expensive
it’s tens over the three card straight
flush right yeah
i would think so sure
because keep in mind you have to double
your bet in this game yeah unlike
regular super times pay where you’re
only betting one extra coin per hand and
this you’re betting five extra coins per
hand
even if you’re dealt a winning hand a
winning pair you may not get your money
that’s only half of what you bet
another quads baby
hmm
i think since there’s two suited it’s
over the ace
i think
here we go
four to the royal let’s see i’m sure
four card royal again it was only a
three card royal last time
all right well you could miss it on a
four card royal now we got 24 extra
hands again oh look at this wow
a whole bunch of doo doo card
i don’t even know if we’re gonna break
even on this one dad
this is wow
wow this is pathetic
that is so again this this shows you
that uh even though
you get the multipliers you still got to
get a good hand
when you get that multiplier quads
which is why the game is so volatile
but people some people love the
volatility of this
steve is not one of those people i am
not yeah
i was playing the super times pay in
california
uh just the regular one not even this
one
well it was 50 play
i started 100 play and it got a little
expensive then i went that went down to
50 play
and still was expensive so
that’s a lot of volatility
and that’s why i don’t like the game
here we go oh dealt winner
two more and of course we get
very low multipliers
decent hands i think that’s facing hands
well you gotta you got a guaranteed
winner so we’ll take
get your four kings again
well you know you’re gonna make money
yes so
there you go
6 30. now we’re still only 1300 credits
in the hole
when you get these four aces
i’m sure if you keep playing this you’re
gonna get back-to-back multipliers i
just feel it oh yes
yeah
there you go see that’s almost back
today 30 hands that’s the most you can
get there i believe yeah but it’s only a
two time multiply unfortunately so we’re
getting 40 hands
40 hands
we’re gonna get quad threes
like eight times here i can feel it in
my bones eight of them i don’t think so
i’ll settle for one
one one
one of them would be nice
not even a full house wow
270 after all that
there were 40 hands there and that was
the best you could do
all right i don’t think we’re going to
make the leaderboards
i think we’re going to have to give up
on this one that okay we’re going to my
game that i love and you hate we’ll give
it one more shot to get on the
leaderboard here
okay which game is that
ultimate x gold baby
the new ultimate x i don’t like that
game either so again you have to double
your bet
and
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10 play
it doesn’t really double bonus double
everything
it doesn’t so the way this one works is
you know a regular ultimate x you double
your bet and if you get a winning hand
you’re gonna multiply on the next hand
this game
you get delta winning hand and it gives
you multiple it adds multipliers those
can stay there
so we got this you saw it just added uh
multipliers it uh it’ll up the
multiplier that’s already there if there
isn’t one or if or if there is one it’ll
up it if there’s not one it’ll add it
so
so you see we got three times multiplier
because it was sitting there so we got a
three of a kind so you hit it and it’ll
just
and and what did we bet and what did we
win there uh that’s a good question
steve
and you have to get delta winning hand
to add the multipliers so we started at
ten thousand oh wait no we didn’t
we are
so far we’re winning here look at that
we’re up 75 credits so wow we got two
flushes so it had the multiplier it got
rid of it but it gives it to you on all
the hands that you get it on
my boy is a genius look at this so three
of a kind so then it’s going to add
multiplier so it added a get him up
there it made the flush three times it
made the full house three times
let’s see how we play this
how many four of a time
one full house so we got the three times
multiplier it hit us goes back to none
there
now is it just the ace even on a four
card straight
probably i i don’t know
i think i’d go for the straight but i
have no idea this is straight but it’s
straight seven times
so that’s the other thing about this
game is bob dancer see look we hit one
for 140 now bob dancer did a uh uh
uh column on this a while back
and what did he say there were like
inside street ten thousand what do you
say there were ten thousand different uh
uh well
the strategy would change depending on
what the multiplier is so you’re never
quite sure what the uh let’s see do we
have a multiplier on a straight flush no
we don’t so you’ll never get a
multiplier in royal flush or straight
flush
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and we got one flash that’s the that’s
kind of the
the bad thing about this is if you get
the multipl take the multiplier off and
you only get one of them
let’s see fours we need to get dealt
some winning hands here to add some more
multipliers there we go what did we get
dealt was it nines and fours
and now i was playing this game in a
casino and this game gets
very expensive and what’s interesting
was is i was playing and i got dealt a
full house
but if you have a multiplier on the
three of a kind that three of a kind
right there pays the same as a full
house with no if you have no multiplier
so i was keeping i was throwing away the
other two cards in the full house and
only keeping the three of a kind
because the three of a kind was paying
the same as a full house so like right
now in this scenario if we got dealt a
full house you would throw away the full
house and only keep the three of a kind
i think because it makes sense to me at
least because with a three times
multiplier on the three of a kind 15
times three is 45 you’re getting paid
the same amount as a full house and you
have options at quads
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so that’s how we were talking about the
changing of the multipliers changes the
strategy of the game that would be one
strategy change there
and uh that was the only one that i
could think of as i was playing i only
played it for like 20 30 minutes because
very expensive game
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only if you’re losing
yes it’s a it’s a fun game if you’re
winning yes if you’re losing it’s a very
expensive game yes
well as most casino games well we
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yes straight flush to the moon
doubling oh yeah
you had it uh almost not quite the nine
aces all right here come our quads
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so our flush is up to a seven times
multiplier there
four aces the four-time
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wow if you got four of a kind in this
game you’d really be killing it
well what’s interesting is it splits up
all the different four of a kinds even
if you’re playing jacks or better where
the four of a kinds all pay the same
amount it still has them split up and
they have different multipliers
i guess because they want the
multipliers to hang around they want to
entice people into the machine oh
trips here we go
what a four or fives uh p a thousand or
four hundred
wait yeah
250 no double no it’s only doubled oh
wait oh it is it’s over on the right
side there
yeah so they’ve got them all sorts of
chopped up
there we go four thousand all right
number one on the leaderboard let’s go
wait where
we’re number one 765. where are number
one
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it’s very tiny for me to see it okay i
think that’s where we nope we’re going
to the moon
all right matt wants to get the four
kings here too
finish it
off
all right all right now we’ll end it
we’re number one on the leaderboard can
we add a message here right there there
we’ve we finally uh made the leaderboard
there
okay all right so we got everybody uh it
was an experience learning experience
for us if you like double double bonus
we were learning you were learning uh
again
10 6 double double bonus is the best
paid table you’re going to find we were
playing nine six which is almost 99
percent what was the 98 point uh
oh
sorry i was trying to put i was trying
to put some shameless promotion in here
you’re gonna have to end with a straight
flush nope not wow oh and i knocked this
out of the leaderboard
i was trying to add a message are we
completely out of the leaderboard we’re
five points off
wait no then you have to you have to we
gotta go back you gotta go back i was
trying to add a message to tell people
to follow us on youtube because if
you’re in first place you get you get to
put a message out there oh god
we’re in a death spiral now i ruined it
i ruined everything
you’re you’re like the one the people in
the casino that says okay i’m only ten
dollars away from my started with three
hundred dollars today i’m
i’ve almost got it all back i just need
10 more dollars i’ll get this 10 dollars
and i’ll stop and then they go on a
downward spiral okay so uh let’s just go
ahead and stop this video before i screw
this up okay now go okay
okay i’m committed faith in you we’re
we’re in our death spiral here
well maybe not that much faith
i’ve got faith all right if we get back
to even i’m giving up
well you should you should stopped
before i tried to stop i pressed enter i
pressed enter to type a message and it
played another hand
we blew it
why don’t you blow it one more don’t
blame it on me yeah you’re right
all right so how much are we doing are
we down we’re still up 195.
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we’re in second place oh it says we’re
280 i guess it hasn’t updated there oh
there it goes 195 third place
all right so what you wanted to be in
the first place i wanted to to add the
message to tell everybody to follow us
on youtube but it’s too too late
okay
all right
everybody why don’t you just ask people
very nicely follow us on youtube perhaps
yes or instagram
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