The Deuce is on The Loose!
It’s well known that Deuces Wild and some of it’s more exotic variations yield a very high return for accurate play. Regular Deuces Wild, for instance offers a payback of over 100.76%. The variation found at Sam’s Town in Las Vegas called both Deuces Pay 200 and Bonus Deuces improves to about 100.95%.
Perhaps the most intriguing variety however is known as Loose Deuces. Loose Deuces is a visual standout with a garish orange-red display hawking the 2500 coin payoff for four deuces (with 5 coins played.) There are several varieties of this game, all denoted by the five of a kind/straight flush payoff.
The most commonly found varieties are the relative low paying 12/8 (even this version pay 99.8%) the 12/10 (100.2%) version and the 15/8 (100.15%) game. The 15/10 version is harder to find, but at 100.97% is worth searching out. However the highest paying version of this game, the 17/10 version which returns an incredible -101.6%(!) now seems to be reappearing in Las Vegas. It has been found at least two casinos in Glitter Gulch and more may follow.
17/10 LOOSE DEUCES
| HAND | FREQUENCY | OCCURS EVERY n HAND; WHERE n = | PAYS (Bet = 5) | CONTRIBUTION TO TOTAL RETURN |
| ———- | ——— | ————– | ——– | ————— |
| ROYAL FLUSH | 0.00% | 45310 | 4000 | 1.77% |
| FOUR DEUCES | 0.02% | 4702.1 | 2500 | 10.63% |
| ROYAL W/DEUCE | 0.17% | 589.07 | 125 | 4.24% |
| FIVE OF A KIND | 0.32% | 315.26 | 85 | 5.39% |
| STRAIGHT FLUSH | 0.43% | 230.21 | 50 | 4.34% |
| FOUR OF A KIND | 6.51% | 15.357 | 20 | 26.05% |
| FULL HOUSE | 2.12% | 47.27 | 15 | 6.35% |
| FLUSH | 1.64% | 60.863 | 10 | 3.29% |
| STRAIGHT | 5.54% | 18.058 | 10 | 11.08% |
| THREE OF A KIND | 28.47% | 3.5124 | 5 | 28.47% |
| GARBAGE | 54.78% | 1.8256 | 0 | 0.00% |
| 101.6 |
There is a catch, however. This game is not only the highest paying flat-top around but also the most volatile. As the table shows, fully 12.4% of the payoff for this game is in the four deuces jackpot and the royal flush. So in between those two jackpots you are playing at a payback of 87.6%!
Worse than this, if you remove the often hard to get wild royal and five of a kind you are playing at 78%! This will obviously lead to some very mean losing streaks. You will generally need a wad of ‘Ben Franklins’ to play this game (which is only available in the quarter denomination.)
STRATEGY TIPS:
Basic changes from regular DW strategy.
Always draw to three Deuces (break up a Wild RF or 5 of a kind).
With two deuces, break up a four card straight flush.
