1. Ace of hearts, Two of clubs, Five of clubs, Six of clubs, King of spades 2. Ace of clubs, Two of spades, Five of spades, Six of spades, King of hearts
But wait!!
Suits matter because of Flushes (also straight flushes, royal flushes and the like)
True, but I am not saying that suits do not matter altogether, just that some hands are equal to others with regard to suit swapping.
For instance, with hand (1), some players assert that the best approach is to discard the ace and king. Note that you are only two cards away from a straight flush.
(Some video poker strategy manuals suggest badically thats it IS worth going for "long shots," two card draws, for the high paying flush + straight hands) (Your analysis could answer this question!)
My datafile indeed suggests discarding the ace and king, giving an expected payout of 49.20% of the wager. The best four strategy's are in descending order:
1. Discard ace and king: 0.4920 2. Keep only the king: 0.4666 3. Keep both ace and king: 0.4657 4. Keep only the ace: 0.4649
Or -- in fact -- did you mean Edwin that the above hands are the same -- because you're just swapping suites?
Yes, that's indeed what I meant: that swapping suites does not matter, not that suits don't matter altogether.
ie, your final "rule book" is composed of a "free form" system with reagards suits.
ie, your rule book likes something like this:
5-X, 6-X, 9-Y, 10-Y, K-Z
where X, Y and Z can be any suite.
Basically yes.
Hence in that example, you have covered, let me think, four, right? different "raw" hands with one meta-hand where you variableize the suites ???
Nope, 24 in this case: 4 possibilities for X, 3 for Y and 2 for Z.
Edwin
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