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Jun 29, 2015 Ultimate Texas Hold'em® is a poker-based casino game in which the player may make one raise at any time during the course of the hand. The earlier the raise is made the higher it may be. Unlike other poker-based games, raises made after the ante still have action, even if the dealer doesn't open. Odd are the odds no matter how long you play, just like playing one pull of video poker on a game the holds 99.9 percent on one hand you could win 4000 or lose the whole thing teddys Joined: Nov 14, 2009. See full list on wizardofodds.com.

Introduction

Flushed began a field trial at the Stratosphere on February 2, 2021. The idea is that the dealer will deal cards from a 52-card deck until he obtains a flush. The player may bet on the color, suit, and poker value of this flush as well as how many cards it will take.

Rules

The following rules are based on the rack card for the game, as opposed to how they actually dealt the game, I would say incorrectly, at the time of my visit on February 5, 2021.

1. A single 52-card deck is used and shuffled before every round.
2. Players place their bets (listed below).
3. The dealer shall deal one card at a time.
4. As each card is dealt, the dealer will place it on a 4x4 grid according to it's suit and the count of the number of cards dealt in that suit.
5. The dealer will stop dealing under either of the following conditions:
   • Any given suit reaches five cards, indicating a flush.
   • Sixteen cards are dealt and no flush has been reached.
6. If a flushed is reached, then the dealer shall pay winning bets according to the suit of the flush, poker value of that flush, and the number of cards dealt.
7. If the dealer reaches 16 cards without a flush, then all bets shall lose except the bet on 17 cards. Note that in this situation, the 17th card must form a flush as all four suits already have a count of four.

The following table shows the available 'inside bets,' based on the total number of cards dealt. Pays are on a 'to one' basis.

Inside Bets Pay Table

Cards	Pays
5	400
6	100
7	40
8	20
9	12
10	9
11	7
12	5
13	5
14	5
15	7
16	12
17	35

The following table shows the available 'outside bets,' which are miscellaneous bets based on the number of cards dealt and the actual flush formed. Pays are on a 'to one' basis.

Outside Bets Pay Table

Bet	Pays
Color	1
Suit	3
Odd	1
Ace-high flush	1.5
Straight flush	100
Royal flush	1000
Total of 5 to 10	3
Total of 11 to 13	1.2
Total of 14 to 16	2

Notes
*: The odd bet loses on a total of 17 cards
**: The even bet pays 1 to 2 on a total of 10 cards

Following are pictures of both sides of the rack card. Click on either image for a larger version.

Stratosphere Variant

As mentioned above, I am basing my rules on the rack card for the game. The way the game was actually dealt on my visit on February 5, 2021 was that color and suit bets did NOT lose if the dealer reached 16 cards without a flush. That would give these bets a zero house advantage.

I challenged the floor supervisor about the discrepancy between how she explained the rules to the rack card. Her response was, and I'm paraphrasing, 'The rack card is wrong. There are no inside and outside bets. Those are just words. We are dealing this game the way the makers of the game trained us.'

When I said it didn't seem professional to me to deal the game contrary to the posted rules, she said the rack was was 'just words' and 'the people who made the game were not dealers and didn't know what they were doing.'

That was as far as I took it, as it was clear she was getting annoyed with me. She said if I had anything additional to say, I could put it in a comment sheet about the game, which I did. I wrote the game was not being dealt according to the rule card and left my phone number for further details.

Analysis

The following table shows the probability of winning and house edge of all inside bets.

Inside Bets Analysis

Number of Cards	Pays	Prob. Win	House Edge
5	400	0.20%	20.57%
6	100	0.82%	17.00%
7	40	2.04%	16.50%
8	20	3.91%	17.94%
9	12	6.39%	16.88%
10	9	9.31%	6.95%
11	7	12.23%	2.16%
12	5	14.54%	12.78%
13	5	15.49%	7.07%
14	5	14.45%	13.30%
15	7	11.30%	9.61%
16	12	6.81%	11.48%
17	35	2.52%	9.21%

The following table shows the probability of winning and house edge of all outside bets, except the even bet.

Outside Bets Analysis

Bet	Pays	Prob. Win	House Edge
Color	1	48.74%	2.52%
Suit	3	24.37%	2.52%
Odd	1	47.65%	4.71%
Ace-high flush	1.5	38.31%	4.23%
Straight flush	100	0.70%	29.37%
Royal flush	1000	0.08%	22.22%
Total of 5 to 10	3	22.66%	9.35%
Total of 11 to 13	1.2	42.26%	7.04%
Total of 14 to 16	2	32.56%	2.32%

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Following is my return table for the even bet, which has three possible outcomes. The bottom right cell shows a house edge of 4.99%.

Even Bet Analysis

Event	Pays	Probability	Return
Not 10	0.405262	1.0	0.405262
10	0.093050	0.5	0.046525
Loss	0.501687	-1.0	-0.501687
Total	1.000000	-0.049900

The mean number of cards to get to a flush is 12.3598.

Written by:Michael Shacklefordbeachbumbabs
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Hi Everyone,
I was wondering if someone can help me calculate the odds and optimal strategy for a version of Ultimate Texas Hold'em that I saw in Europe.
Basically the rules are all the same except for one major difference. If the casino doesn't qualify, the casino pays you the 'play' regardless of who would have won the hand. The ante is still a push. Traditionally if the dealer does not open and the dealer wins the hand then you would lose the 'blind' and the 'play' and push the 'ante'.
I'll give an example :
1.) Ante $1, Blind $1, Play $4. - Dealer does not quality and player wins hand, I collect $4 play, Push on Ante and Blind. Traditionally I would collect $4 play push on ante and blind (This is the same)
2.) Ante $1, Blind $1, Play $4. - Dealer does not quality and dealer wins hand, I collect $4 play, push on ante and blind. Traditionally I would lose $4 play, lose $1 blind, and push ante.

So.
I get, from WoO tables. Hands where dealer does not qualify, but wins the hand, with occurences of large, medium, and small Play bets.
So you not only don't lose, you are paid - a net gain in PA of both values, for that percentage of hands expected in each case to be dealer wins.
-5 becomes +4 on 0.003641 (*9) = 0.033219
-3 becomes +2 on 0.000287 (*5) = 0.001435
-2 becomes +1 on 0.001698 (*3) = 0.005094
Total change in +EV = 0.039748
Normal HE is 0.02185 . So the player has an advantage of 0.017898 (1.7898%) with these rules.

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I guess I would say, if there is no pair, 4 to a flush, or 4 to an outside straight on the board, you might want to not fold at all. Not sure. I don't think I would change any other BS decisions.

Thanks for that,
do you think that I should modify my hand selection for a large play bet preflop? Should I play more aggressively, a wider range of hands?

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Personally, no, I don't. I think the only modification I would make is not folding when there's a good chance the dealer won't qualify, as above.
I think the strategy is so aggressive in the first place, you just put larger amounts at risk without any assurance at the 4x and 2x points that the dealer WON'T qualify.
You already have a Player Advantage with the messed up rules. You will stretch that PA further by not folding hands at the 1x or Fold point, so maybe up to 3% or so PA. But they will still take your money if the dealer qualifies and wins, so why expose more at the 4x and 2x points than the hand is worth?

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