Bonus Poker

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Pays per credit at a five-credit bet; the royal's 800 is 4,000 credits there. The three four-of-a-kind lines are identical on both tables; they part on the full house and flush.

Against 6/5, the 7/4 table moves one credit from the flush to the full house and comes out slightly ahead.

Habanero's Bonus Poker runs 7/4 in every hand-count version: 7 for a full house and 4 for a flush, so a flush pays no more than a straight. The quad lines are the standard 80, 40 and 25.

The key number: Habanero's 7/4 table is short pay, cut below the full-pay 8/5 schedule: 96.96% under perfect play against 99.17%, and 95.68% below a five-credit bet.

The AUXO Game title uses the Bonus Poker name for a different game, with a single four-of-a-kind line and a bonus-number side feature, so no Bonus Poker return applies to it. The rest of our library is on the free games page.

Figures assume perfect play on 8/5. In 9/6 Jacks or Better the one four-of-a-kind line carries 5.93% of the return; here the three quad lines carry 1.58%, 2.13% and 4.13%. Three of a kind, two pair and a pair of jacks or better still supply most of it, which is why the holds stay so close to Jacks or Better.

On 8/5 the quad split changes very little: perfect 9/6 Jacks or Better strategy played here costs only 0.008 points of return, one of the smallest prices on the strategy guide's list of borrowed strategies. The 7/4 table is another matter, because its 4-credit flush makes every flush draw worth less. Each value below is what the hold returns per credit bet once every possible draw is counted.

• Keep two pair, even with aces. Dealt A♠ A♦ K♠ K♦ 5♣ on 8/5, keep both pairs: worth 2.51, against 1.68 for the aces alone. Two pair pays 2 here, so the aces-only play that wins in Double Double Bonus has no case in Bonus Poker.
• A low pair against four to a flush on 7/4. Dealt 5♠ 5♥ 8♠ J♠ K♠, the spades still win, worth 0.89 against 0.80 for the fives. On 9/6 Jacks or Better the same hand is 1.28 against 0.82, so most of the margin has gone. In the 7/4 hold list a pair of 2s, 3s or 4s now ranks above four to a flush, and perfect play prefers even a pair of fives through tens on a further 0.126% of deals.
• A made flush against four to a royal on 7/4. Dealt A♥ K♥ Q♥ J♥ 4♥, break the flush: four to the royal is worth 18.13, against the 4 the flush pays.

Read from the top and stop at the first line your deal satisfies; jacks, queens, kings and aces count as high cards.

1. Royal flush, straight flush or four of a kind.
2. Four to a royal flush; break a made flush, straight or high pair for it.
3. A full house, three of a kind, flush or straight.
4. Four to a straight flush.
5. Two pair.
6. A high pair (jacks through aces).
7. Three to a royal flush.
8. Four to a flush.
9. A low pair (twos through tens).
10. Four to an outside straight.
11. Three to a straight flush with two high cards.
12. Four to an inside straight with four high cards.
13. Two suited high cards.
14. Three to a straight flush with one high card.
15. Four to an inside straight with three high cards.
16. Two unsuited high cards.
17. A ten with a high card of the same suit.
18. One high card.
19. Three to a straight flush with no high card.
20. Nothing: draw five new cards.

On 8/5 the list is worth 99.12%, 0.046 points short of the 99.17% that perfect play returns. For the 7/4 table, move a pair of 2s, 3s or 4s and four to an inside straight with four high cards above four to a flush, drop three to a straight flush with one high card below two unsuited high cards, and drop the suited ten line; that version plays at 96.91% against 96.96%.