Triple Double Bonus

Strategy guide

The kicker rules that are a footnote in Double Double Bonus are the whole game here. Four Aces with a 2, 3, or 4 pay 800 — the royal flush price — so Aces and low ranks are played for their fifth card, while a thin bottom of the table quietly demotes every pair.

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REMEMBER THESE

The three rules that move the game

Hold the bonus kicker with three of a kind

This is what separates Triple Double from Double Double, where you throw both side cards. Three Aces plus a 2/3/4 is 19.43 per coin against 15.07 without it; three 2s-4s plus an A/2/3/4 is 10.91 against 9.00.

Break made hands to reach the premium quads

Three Aces in a full house are worth 16.26 per coin broken against the 9.00 you would keep, and even trip 3s break it at 9.31. Made quads throw an offside kicker: Four Aces with a 9 are 323.40 against 160.

The bottom of the table is thin

Two Pair returns the bet and Three of a Kind pays 2, while the flush pays 7. Draws gain ground on pairs everywhere — even three to a flush is a hold, at 0.455 per coin against 0.403 for a lone King.

DECISION LADDER

Scan from the top. Stop at the first match.

CORE ORDER

Royal flush, or quads already holding their bonus kicker

Four Aces with a 2/3/4 pays the royal price. Keep all five.

Four of a kind without its bonus kicker

Throw the fifth card when the quad is Aces or 2s-4s; it costs nothing on the other ranks.

Four to a royal flush

Still worth breaking a made flush or straight.

Three Aces, with a 2/3/4 alongside if present

Draw one and keep the kicker; draw two when no bonus card is in the hand.

Three 2s, 3s, or 4s, with an A/2/3/4 alongside

The same one-card draw at 10.91 per coin. Break a full house for it.

Straight flush, full house, flush, or straight

Keep the made hand once its trips are 5s through Kings.

Three of a kind, 5s through Kings

No kicker applies here — discard both side cards, 4.47 against 3.47.

Four to a straight flush, then a pair of Aces

Aces alone beat Ace-high Two Pair, 2.11 against 1.68.

Two pair without Aces, then Jacks or better

Keep both pairs when neither is Aces; Kings-up is 1.68 against 1.33.

Three to a royal flush

Strong enough to break a pair of Queens, 1.41 against 1.33.

Four to a flush, four-card outside straight, then a low pair

The straight edges the pair here, 0.68 against 0.62.

Three to a flush and suited high cards, else draw five

Three suited cards beat any lone high card and beat a fresh five.

Why this isn’t an exception chart

Suits, gaps, discarded cards, and custom payouts can move close hands. This ladder is the memory framework; SmartHold Practice compares all 32 holds for the exact deal.

COMMON TRAPS

Mistakes worth recognizing on sight

Applying the Double Double kicker habit

There you discard both side cards with trips. Here the bonus kicker is held with three Aces or three low cards — the single biggest difference between the games.

Keeping a full house built on Aces or 2s-4s

Aces full is worth 16.26 per coin broken against 9.00 pat. The premium quad is worth more than the guaranteed nine.

Keeping a kicker with only a pair

A pair of Aces alone is 2.07 per coin; adding a 3 drops it to 1.88. The kicker needs three of a kind underneath it.

TURN THE LADDER INTO INSTINCT

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