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
that is "the shit," Edwin!
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.
Right on ...
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.
right ..
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.
Right -- (I was still thinking "order doesn't matter!" :) )
Edwin
I can't immediately see how you easily subtracted out all the hands that are the "same as" other hands, in your scheme, but we've probably gone on about it too much! :)
Good one, JP
--
--- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
