Avoid Playing Louisiana Double Online Video Poker

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It is more important to know which online casino games to avoid than to know which games to play. You will find games that offer an apparent and visible advantage, but take away much more in the fine print. It is our endeavour to point out such games so that you do not make a mistake. Louisiana Double video poker is one such game available at Microgaming online casinos.

Louisiana Double video poker does not use the standard deck. It is played with a special deck of 53 cards in which the extra card is a Double card. If this card appears in the final poker hand then the payout, if any, is doubled. The flip side is that the Double card cannot contribute to poker hand rankings, not even as a wild card. After the initial euphoria of the double advantage wears off, you will realise that only four types of hands can be doubled – pairs, three of a kind, two pairs and four of a kind. All other hand rankings need all five cards and cannot be doubled.

This takes the Double card out of the larger payout hands and severely limits its advantage. A royal flush pays 500 times the bet for a wager of five coins. But if you end up with A-K-Q-J-D, you do not get paid anything. This also has a material impact on the optimum strategy to be employed in Louisiana Double online video poker. You will often have a conflict in whether to try for a doubled pair or a five card ranked hand. Say, you initially hold 5-6-7-8-D. You can discard the Double card and try for a straight, or you can discard one of the other cards and try for a doubled pair.

The Double card does offer an advantage, though the advantage is much smaller than what it appears to be. Therefore it has to be compensated for by tweaking the payout table. Microgaming Louisiana Double video poker follows the same hand rankings as the Jacks or Better variant. The changes are compared for five coins wagered. In Louisiana Double straight flush and four of a kind pay out more and royal flush and three of a kind pay out less. After factoring in all the changes, including the Double advantage, Louisiana Double has an average return to player of 93.5%, when played using optimum strategy. This is abysmally low as compared to other online video poker variants that offer an average return of about 99%.

 

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