Deuces Wild

[royal flush]

true maybe .1-.2%, if you watch players like bob dancer or frank kneeland they look for "special" plays maybe a promotion that make a 99.18 bp look like 101.5% percent because of a promotion and bob can play high denom and get an hourly rate of $50 per hour with alot of swings he makes the best money selling his books and flash cards. the unintended consequences of that is the reduction of many good games like $1,$2 fpdw. this is why vp has mostly "played itself out" to play as a professional and folks like frank kneeland build teams looking for a progressive where the royal might be 3x the starting payoff making a 8/5 99.11 bp seem like almost 103%, and the casinos counter by slowing the "meter" . players must change as situations change, i started card counting playing 21, then to vp as many fpdw $1, and $2 games and promotions with 125 credits paid on missing a royal by one card on a 9/6 job games $1 level a 3% edge, then to " banked" slots 8 ball flush attack, waiting for machine bank to go into bonus round stop sitting around to playing as fast as i can, now playing more live poker "omaha 8 or better against weak tourists

[GaryMA]

I play deuces wild off an on. It does seem like your money does last a little longer. I have also hit my share of 4 deuces. A quick $250 dollars on a quarter machine when they hit.

[djatc]

If you play FPDW you can play for a lot longer then any other game because the pay tables are distributed to return quite a bit. Any other game if you're not hitting the quads or above it seems to suck your quarters away.

[GaryMA]

I hit my first Royal on a deuces wild machine the other day (no deuces) on a quarter progressive. $1800. Was nice.

[Lucky Larry]

I hit my first Royal on a deuces wild machine the other day (no deuces) on a quarter progressive. $1800. Was nice.

Congratulations on your first Royal.

[Lucky Larry]

Deuces Wild is my favorite game to play, but unfortunately, in CT, the best paytable you will find is 15-9-4-4 and no points paid out either. I would much rather play it on a Double Down Stud machine and hope for the big payouts. I am giving up about 2% though playing that game too in the long run. At least you earn points on the Double Down Stud game and Mohegan Sun has been very generous lately with free play, perk points, dining points, shows, free gas, free rooms, etc. etc. etc....

Olds,
Just curious about where you found 15-9-4-4 DW in Conn. We're headed up there in a few weeks? Is that a common pay table for up there? I haven't checked VPfree yet.

thanks,

[luvzlyfe]

Call me a sentimental sucker - that was Mom's favorite game....I still remember the time when she called me and said..."I've won $500 and I can't figure out what I did"...after backtracking turned out she'd bet max bet when Seminole casinos were doing 10 quarters for max bet. She said she had...a wild royal....an Ace H and 4-2s and I told her otherwise...so, I play DW and look heavenward and say "this is for you Mommy".

[Lucky Larry]

Call me a sentimental sucker - that was Mom's favorite game....I still remember the time when she called me and said..."I've won $500 and I can't figure out what I did"...after backtracking turned out she'd bet max bet when Seminole casinos were doing 10 quarters for max bet. She said she had...a wild royal....an Ace H and 4-2s and I told her otherwise...so, I play DW and look heavenward and say "this is for you Mommy".

Accidental "max plays" hits are real jewels. In 2007, on a birthday trip, Sweet C accidentally hit max play (10 coin) and didn't realize it until about half-dozen hands later when she caught a royal for double the amount.

[DAAnMAAn]

I have a love/hate relationship with deuces wild at the moment.. I can only find fpdw for .25c single line and hit a royal on it 5 sessions ago, then went on a nice losing streak with fpdw losing -300,-300, +70, -500. So much for consistency, but that's video poker. I don't think deuces wild is better or worse than the non-wild games, just different.
The pro's are you do seem to play longer for the most part, earn more points, hit more hands with the wild's. Variance is reasonably low, of course not lower than JOB. Hitting quad deuces (or as I like to say, squaduche) is cool, hitting them a few times is even more cool. But not hitting them is not cool.
Anyway, I enjoy NSUD too and I get to play higher denominations with NSUD when I'm tired of playing for quarters. If I had to rank my top 5 vp games in order at the moment granting that it's just a personal note, it would be 1. FPDW/NSUD 2. DBP 3. JOB 4. DDB 5. BP
 
And I can understand why some players are not inclined to play the deuces wild games due to the excitement of perhaps DDB or TDB, the big hits and high variance. To each their own. Not to sell deuces wild, but it pays pretty good for 4 deuces and the royal, can usually play longer and hit more hands with the wilds, usually have very good pay table returns. Those looking for even bigger hits,  loose deuce pays even more for quad deuces, 2500 on 5 credits, and you can find them at over 100% expected return. Highly variant game warning. But it's there for those of you who like to search for the big score. I like to dable with it now and again, but don't go crazy with it because without a squaduche hit or royal, it's a tough game. Right along the lines with TDB I guess.