This is why I sometimes play Double Down Stud

[olds442jetaway]

This game is a vanishing breed at most casinos. Though the paytable is 97 percent or so, it is very popular due to the large hits you can get on some ok but nothing special dealt hands. Also, you are automaticaly going to double your bet after seeing the first 4 good cards. Can anyone venture a guess why they don’t replace these games when they wear out? One one also can easily play double the coin in per hour compared to draw poker games since you don’t have to take time deciding which cards to hold Twice the coin in per hour should mean twice the profit for the casino. Any ideas? Sorry for the typo in the title. I couldn’t seem to be able to correct it

[olds442jetaway]

[olds442jetaway]

Got this nice hit Friday nite. On regular Deuces wild, it would have paid 125 coins for bet 5. Of course this was dealt

[Jstark]

I played it for a short bit at Harrahs in LV after checking the awfully slow to change UX games there. Hit an early flush and never played again.

[Vman96]

I don't mind the game, but I assume it never caught on because the game isn't that thought provoking. I'd rather play pick'em.

[olds442jetaway]

I like being able to play a thousand hands an hour or more. Many of the better hands come around every one thousand to five thousand hands so in 8 hours of play, I usually hit something pretty good. Also dealt deuces come around at about the same frequency as a royal in draw poker and after doubling pay the same amount as the draw poker royal. That means in the long run, at playing double the hands per hour, I only have to make half as many trips before hitting a thousand bucks on deuces games with bet 5 and automatically doubling. The elusive dealt royal which may come in a couple of times or never in one’s lifetime, pays 5k on the deuces wild game for bet 5 and doubling. I have several in 20 million hands of lifetime play. 3 of those were on DDS. Luckily, never hitting the royal only takes away a quarter percent or so from your longtime take. Just under once every 700k hands is a long time even for me who plays at least 15k hands a week on a slow week. I do find there a few important decisions to make and sometimes you have to remember like on dds deuces wild doubling when you have one deuce and a chance at an inside straight but not doubling when you have 4 to a straight without a wild card.

[olds442jetaway]

Caught this nice one today. Later wasted it on a dollar joker kings game that only played the joke on me. Went from Mohegan to Foxwoods for a free cash drawing. Of course I drew the lowest prize a ten dollar bill. I put the ten in a nickel 96 percent deuces spin machine and connected with a Royal in fifteen minutes for 200 bucks. Sorry, no pic on that one. Phone died and my charger was in the car. Not a total loss anyway. At least I went home with the 200.

[OTABILL]

Any success is worth a congrats!

[olds442jetaway]

Agreed and thanksOTB Today I found a penny when getting out of the car. Picking it up also serves to loosen up the joints.