Royal Aces - Tutorial?

[Lucky Larry]

Our nearby casino offers Royal Aces as an option on two of the 100 play machines. Haven't found a tutorial on how to play it and practice it. Anyone have a link or know where I can get a strategy card? Watched a nice 3 Aces become 7 Quad Aces on 100 play 5¢ machine last night for a nice little G-statement.

Thanks,

LL

[New2vp]

You can practice the 9-5 version of the game right here at videopoker.com under single line play under training mode.  It will flag errors and allow you to play what-if when you have a particular hand that you'd like to know the best hold for.  You can practice the 9-6 version at the Wizard of Odds site.Most of the vp software out there will allow this game and flag incorrect holds.  WinPoker requires that you enter its pay schedule in a User Defined Game.  Frugal Poker has it; Wolf Poker has it; VPFW has it.  In all these you can change to the pay schedule that you're seeing at the casino.  With ViPoker, you will have to make up a custom game, but it will handle this game as well.VPGenius Web site will provide a no-penalty card strategy for free online.  Frugal, Wolf, and VPFW will give you strategies and the latter two will help you identify penalty card situations.In general, it's a more complex strategy than most.  Of course, you break up a full house for trip aces and you break two pair in favor of a pair of aces.  An Ace plays in front of any 2-card royals, so you'd discard the J with AJ suited (or Q in AQ or K in AK), just like you generally discard the Ten in A-Ten suited in other games. Because Js, Qs, and Ks are not high cards, 3-card flushes, some 3-card straights, and most 2-card SFs with up to 2 gaps play (partly because a SF pays 500 coins).  If you consider penalty card situations, many singleton Tens and singleton Fours play as well.Good luck; big risk and big reward when you're favored with quad aces, no kicker needed.Again because of the paucity of high cards, the hit frequency is pretty low on this game compared to others with nearly 70% losers.

[Lucky Larry]

New2VP,
Thanks for the heads up. Most of the training modes/versions aren't written for my high end Mac like the training mode on this site. Wizard doesn't provide the "hint" option unless I am missing a key stroke. Thanks I will check out the other options.

LL

[Webman]

LL, the training mode on this site should work with no problems on a Mac.

[Lucky Larry]

Webman,

Thanks for the input. We tried to download the "Trainer" during the preview and it wouldn't load.   So I'll retry using Safari and then Firefox.

Thanks

LL