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1. What Is A Steel Wheel In Poker
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Play video-poker Play keno VideoKeno.com Play contests Find in casinos Player challenges My Player Page Players Club Player directory Mobile apps View top scores Video poker for Android Video poker. Prizes at Wheel of Fortune by 888 Poker are free spins for casino games, tickets to freerolls with different prize pools (usually from $2000 up to $10000) and also free sport bets and real money bonuses. And you get all this in addition to 888 poker $88 free bonus upon creating a real money account. While it is not exactly known where the term 'wheel' comes from, it is thought to have somehow come from the popular Bicycle brand playing cards made by the United States Playing Card Company. The term 'bicycle' is a synonym for 'wheel' in poker parlance.

EXAMPLE: 'I was drawing to a wheel and completed it, but ended up losing to a flush.' APPLIES TO: Online and Land-based Venues. In lowball, the lowest possible hand that takes into account the rules for whether straights and flushes count and whether the Ace may be used as a low card.

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Ultimate X Wheel Poker has been around for a while, but I've never analyzed it because I didn't know the wheel weightings. Now, VideoPoker.com is kind enough to disclose the theoretical returns on many games, including this one, which gives me enough information to make a page for the game.
That said, Ultimate X Wheel Poker is like regular multi-play Ultimate X, except the player spins a prize wheel for a full house (or straight flush in deuces wild games). That's about it. The wheel is obviously weighted, but rough math shows an average win to be a 40x multiplier. The cost is an extra 5 credits bet per game, as opposed to per play.
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The wheel is obviously weighted, but rough math shows an average win to be a 40x multiplier.

I was kind of wondering about this. If Nevada law says that video dice and cards must behave like they would in the real world, where do video wheels stand? On some games you can see where the wheel is going to land a few seconds before it stops because its diminishing speed behaves with 'real world' physics. Other wheels, however, simply spin at a constant rate and stop when they stop, behaving more like a flattened video slot reel.

I was kind of wondering about this. If Nevada law says that video dice and cards must behave like they would in the real world, where do video wheels stand?

There's no such thing as a standard video wheel in the real world, so they can do weight it however they want, within any laws that are set up for this type of thing. I assume there are probably some laws around not allowing a 0 weight on a slice etc.

I was kind of wondering about this. If Nevada law says that video dice and cards must behave like they would in the real world, where do video wheels stand? On some games you can see where the wheel is going to land a few seconds before it stops because its diminishing speed behaves with 'real world' physics. Other wheels, however, simply spin at a constant rate and stop when they stop, behaving more like a flattened video slot reel.

The law says it only needs to have the appropriate probabilities if it simulates a live gambling game, or simulates live casino equipment. There isn't a table game where you're spinning a real wheel for a multiplier or a credit bonus.
And Wizard, you suggest valuing a full house multiplier at 40X for strategy purposes makes me question things as the boosts given by the paytables seems to vary greatly among the paytables.
For example the payback in 3 line Bonus Poker UX with perfect play is the following.
7/5 Bonus = 99.28%
6/5 Bonus = 98.12%
But for UX wheel poker 3 line Bonus is...
7/5 Bonus = 99.52% (a 0.24% increase over normal UX)
6/5 Bonus = 97.27% (a 0.85% DECREASE! over normal UX)
The only way I could expect such a discrepancy is either an outright typo, or the wheels are weighted significantly different based on the paytable used. :( No way I'd assume both the 7/5 Bonus and the 6/5 Bonus game would both have a rough full house multiplier value of 40X.Wizard
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And Wizard, you suggest valuing a full house multiplier at 40X for strategy purposes makes me question things as the boosts given by the paytables seems to vary greatly among the paytables.
For example the payback in 3 line Bonus Poker UX with perfect play is the following.
7/5 Bonus = 99.28%
6/5 Bonus = 98.12%
But for UX wheel poker 3 line Bonus is...
7/5 Bonus = 99.52% (a 0.24% increase over normal UX)
6/5 Bonus = 97.27% (a 0.85% DECREASE! over normal UX)
The only way I could expect such a discrepancy is either an outright typo, or the wheels are weighted significantly different based on the paytable used. :( No way I'd assume both the 7/5 Bonus and the 6/5 Bonus game would both have a rough full house multiplier value of 40X.

The 40x was based on looking at just one game and pay table. Maybe I should remove the reference.

What Is A Steel Wheel In Poker

Best thing about the wheel: you can get it on the draw. Several of their games, a feature like that only triggers with a dealt hand.

Quick Quads Wheel Poker

Worst thing about the wheel. I got 33 of them in an hour, not one was a bonus amount, just multipliers. Only 3 of those hit. 2 of them for JOB, 1 for another FH.
Still, I think it's one of their better games, and I'll definitely play it, even at.11x bet for max to get the wheel.