Triple Double Bonus 9/7: rules, payouts & strategy

Ordinary cards with extraordinary kicker awards

Triple Double Bonus uses a standard 52-card deck with no wild cards and one draw after the five-card initial deal. Jacks or better is the minimum paid pair. A kicker is the fifth card beside four matching cards. It changes selected quad awards, so the simulator records the premium and ordinary categories separately even when another hand has the same payout.

The selected 9/7 schedule

Full house pays nine and flush seven per unit wager. A straight pays four, trips only two, and two pair only one. Four aces with a two, three or four pay 800; with any other kicker they pay 160. Four twos, threes or fours with an ace or another rank from two through four pay 400; with a five through king they pay 80. Four fives through kings pay 50 regardless of kicker.

The complete five-coin paytable

These awards include the original wager. Five credits returned means break-even, not five credits of profit. At $0.25 per credit, a hand costs $1.25 and a 4,000-credit award returns $1,000. Changing denomination scales the dollars without changing probabilities. This model always wagers five coins, preserving the maximum-coin royal; it does not apply the same return to smaller coin-count schedules.

Read the complete five-card hand

A♣ A♦ A♥ A♠ 2♣ pays 4,000 credits on a five-credit bet. Replace 2♣ with K♣ and the payout falls to 800 credits. For 3♣ 3♦ 3♥ 3♠ A♣ the award is 2,000 credits, while a king kicker pays 400. There is no fifth three in a 52-card deck, so a kicker must be a different physical rank from the quad.

A useful exact kicker calculation

Suppose the initial deal is A♣ A♦ A♥ A♠ K♣. Keeping all five locks in 160 times the stake. Keeping the four aces and replacing the king leaves 47 possible cards: 12 are twos through fours and 35 are other kickers. The expected gross multiplier is (12 × 800 + 35 × 160) / 47 = 323.4043. That exceeds 160, so drawing the kicker is better. Once a premium low kicker is already present, keeping all five guarantees the maximum award.

Do not generalize a quad example to every draw

This kicker calculation concerns an already complete four-of-a-kind hand. It does not say to retain every low card beside a pair or three aces: those decisions trade completion chances against kicker value and need a full expected-value comparison. Nor should Double Double Bonus strategy be assumed exact here. Trips pay only two, and premium quads have much larger awards. The simulator models optimal category frequencies, not a player following a simplified tip list.

High return still allows losing sessions

The selected integer-weight model has an optimal theoretical RTP of 99.5778%. Its calculated variance is 98.281295 in squared total-stake units; standard deviation is 9.913692 stakes per hand. Those figures assume independent hands and optimal decisions on this exact paytable, with no progressive jackpot, cashback, promotions or strategy mistakes.

For a fixed number N of hands, expected loss is N times the total hand wager times one minus the return fraction. The standard deviation of total net return is the hand wager times the square root of N times variance. Rare jackpots make short-session outcomes asymmetric, so this formula is not a promise that a particular session ends near its expectation. An affordable bankroll can still run out before the requested hand count.

Compare several sessions with the same settings, then change one setting at a time. A faster speed changes only the pace. Increasing the stake magnifies dollar swings without making a jackpot due. Set an affordable entertainment limit; simulated results are neither income projections nor a reason to chase losses.

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