Red Dog Optimal Strategy
by Jean Real

Online casino games are not all that hard to beat. The player will always have a very slight disadvantage but this can be reduced to a minimum if you know how to play the game perfectly. As a player, the first thing you must do is find out how to play a chance game such as Red Dog, with a perfect strategy. Once you apply the strategy to the game, your chances of making a profit will be increase. Since the game is ultimately random an optimal strategy cannot guarantee winnings to every player that applies it. It’s a combination of your skill and luck that will determine the outcome of the game.

Red Dog Poker sometimes known as Acey-Deucey, is quite a simple game to play. The game starts by dealing two cards in front of you from a 52-card deck.  The cards’ values are the same as in poker (2 being the lowest, Ace being the highest).  If the two cards dealt have the same rank (say, two Kings), the game will automatically deal another card in order to see if a three-of-a-kind is completed. Completing a three-of-a-kind will pay the player 11:1. If it is not, then the game is over and the bet results in a push. If the two cards dealt are consecutive (say, an 8 and a 9), the game is over and results again in a push.

So, when the cards are neither the same nor in consecutive order, the player gets a chance to raise the bet. By raising the bet the player is willing to gamble that the next card to appear will have a value between the two initially dealt cards. The bigger the gap between the first two cards, the better chance the player has of winning the bet. The raise is not necessary; the player may gamble only with his or her initial bet by pressing the “call” button.

The Spread. In Red Dog Poker, the spread represent the number of card ranks that can fall between the two initially dealt cards. The wider the gap, or in other words, the higher the spread, the lower the payout; and vice versa, the lower the spread the higher the payout. Payouts are made according to this paytable:

Hand Payout
 
Spread of 1 (5:1)
Spread of 2 (4:1)
Spread of 3 (2:1)
Spread of 4-11 (1:1)
Pair (Push)
Consecutive Cards (Push)
Three of a Kind (11:1)

The optimal Red Dog Strategy is quite simple. The player should only raise the bet if the spread is of 7 or higher. This will result in more wins than lost hand when you raise the bet. If you raise on spreads of 6 or less, the house holds a higher edge and these bets will result mostly in lost hands.

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WHAT DO YOU DO?
10,10 vs. 5

THE SETUP: You’ve sat down and get yourself involved in a multiple deck game where Doubling-down after split (also known as DDAS) is one of the available options. You’re dealt a pair of cards with ten value (either 10, J, Q or K), and the dealer flips over a five, which is commonly known as a “stiff” card. Your eyes pop out of your head. “Wow,” you say to yourself, “Here’s an opportunity to get a lot of money on the table against this horrible card. How could I possibly pass up on that?” You have a real temptation to put the maximum amount of chips on the table, in an effort to capitalize on the situation. Should you?

So…..

What do you do?

CJ’S WAY: Put your eyes back into your head. This is a scenario where you could very easily shoot yourself in the foot by doing the wrong thing. Do not flip the switch. Do not take more chips out. Do not pass “Go.” Do not try to collect $200. Wait a minute, I’m getting carried away with myself……You get the idea. Stay right where you are.

WHY WE DO IT: If you do what I suggest, and hold back from splitting this hand up, you are going to win about 78% of the time, compared to losing 11% of the time. Your positive expectations go way, way down when you vary from that. Even when the DDAS option is open to you, you will suffer 34% losses when you split these cards up. When you stand with 20 you are going to gain approximately 13%. As you should know by now, we are looking for the highest percentage play for each situation. Therefore, there is no plausible reason to do anything else than that which yields the best value.

Splitting tens against a five can be advantageous if you are counting cards and are in a situation where you can implement that practice. However, if you are a Basic Strategy player, you must operate on the principle that breaking up winning hands is not a winning policy. It will not be often that you find relatively opportunities to win hands. When they are laid out before you, you can’t blow the chance!

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