Dream Card Video Poker
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. Spin Poker™, one of the most popular video poker games of all time, is now enhanced with the newest buy-a-pay feature to hit poker: the Dream Card™. Maximum wagers with a side bet of 5 credits per hand increase odds of winning a Dream Card. If the extra wager is placed and the feature awards it, the mathematically best possible or ‘dream. Deuces Wild (2s Wild): In this Video Slot game, all cards with a value of 2 are considered to be Wild symbols. This adds prizes for 5 of a Kind, a Wild Royal Flush and 4 of a Kind Deuces. How to Play Video Poker. In Video Poker, the automatic dealer shuffles a 52-card deck and deals you in. Answer 1 of 5: Does anyone know where I can find these machines (more so downtown)? I have heard so much about them but do not think I have ever seen them. Did a search but it resulted in nada. If you aren't familiar with regular Draw Poker with Dream Card, it is based on conventional video poker with a Dream Card feature enabled if the player bets ten coins per hand. Any winnings are based on a five-coin bet, so the additional five coins should be seen as a fee to invoke the feature.
- Appendices
- Strategies
- Jacks or Better
- Deuces Wild
- Quick Quads
- Ultimate X
- Miscellaneous
Introduction
There has been some debate about whether the best card is offered to the player when he gets the Dream Card. In his article A Look at DreamCard — Part II of II , Bob Dancer says, 'I've played the game for many hours and I've never seen a case where the DC isn't perfect — or at least tied for being the best. ' However, at VideoPoker.com, sometimes the advice is incorrect. As an example, the following is a screenshot from the 9/6 jacks game at videopoker.com.
In the game above I was offered the Q♣, giving me three to a royal. It would have been better to pick any jack or king for a high pair. Here is the expected value of the suggested play and a correct play:
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9♥ J♣ K♣ 4♥ Q♣: expected value = 7.5902 coins
9♥ J♣ K♣ 4♥ J♠: expected value = 7.6827 coins
The game usually does give correct advice, however. Bob Dancer's article A Look at DreamCard — Part I of II says that when two more or cards are tied, the game will sometimes tease the player with a card that might lead the player to play incorrectly. Take the following two screenshots of VideoPoker.com as examples. In the one on the left, the game correctly gave me a card to complete the straight. However, any six or jack would do. I don't think it was random that it gave me a heart, tempting me to go for the straight flush. In the hand on the right, the game was correct to complete the flush with any spade. However, it gave me the jack of spades, as a temptation to go for the royal.
Following are some more bad suggested Dream Card examples at VideoPoker.com.
In the game above I was offered the Q♥, giving me a high pair. It would have been much better to pick either the 5♠ or 6♠ for four to a straight flush.
8♠ 4♠ Q♣ 7♠ Q♥: expected value = 7.6827 coins
8♠ 4♠ Q♣ 7♠ 5♠: expected value = 11.7021 coins
In the game above I was offered the Q♥ again, giving me a high pair. It would have been much better to pick any spade, for a pat flush.
Q♠ 7♠ 3♠ 2♠ Q♥: expected value = 7.6827 coins
Q♠ 7♠ 3♠ 2♠ A♠: expected value = 30.0000 coins
In the game above the card offered was the 2♠ for a pat straight or four to a straight flush draw. The better card would be the ten of clubs, for four to a natural royal.
J♣ K♣ Q♣ A♠ 2♠: expected value = 18.8298 coins
J♣ K♣ Q♣ A♠ 10♣: expected value = 99.6809 coins
In the game above the card offered was the Q♠ for three to a natural royal flush or high pair. The better card would any two or jack for a pat straight.
K♠ 10♠ 9♥Q♥ Q♠: expected value = 7.0490 coins
K♠ 10♠ 9♥Q♥ J♣: expected value = 10.0000 coins
Internal Links
- Main Dream Card page.
External Links
Dream Card Video Poker Jackpots
- VideoPoker.com has a nice demo of Dream Card. Registration is required to play.
Soruces
- A Look at DreamCard — Part I of II by Bob Dancer.
- A Look at DreamCard — Part II of II by Bob Dancer.
Written by: Michael Shackleford