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Deuces full in Double Bonus — break it for the quad-deuce draw?

Keep the full house. It pays a flat 10.0000 per coin on 10/7 Double Bonus; three deuces chasing the 80-coin quad are worth only 6.7105.

The exact numbers — 2♥ 2♦ 2♠ K♥ K♦

2♥ 2♦ 2♠ K♥ K♦ solved on 10/7 Double Bonus — the best hold highlighted with its exact EV
2♥ 2♦ 2♠ K♥ K♦ on 10/7 Double Bonus: the winning hold, solved exactly.
HoldEV per coinvs best
Pat full house (keep all five)10.0000best
Three deuces (2♥ 2♦ 2♠)6.7105−3.2895
Three deuces + K♥4.9362−5.0638

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Why

You break a full house in Double Bonus for three aces and for nothing else. Quad deuces pay 80 — eight times the full house — while quad aces pay 160, sixteen times it, and the two-card draw only reaches the case deuce about 4.3% of the time. That doubling is the entire margin: the aces version of this decision is worth 10.1147 against the pat 10.0000, a win by a hair, and the deuces version loses by 3.29. On 9/6 Jacks or Better the gap is wider still, 9.0000 against 4.3080.

Double Bonus chart line #3 of 36 is 'Three aces', above line #4 'Straight · flush · full house'. Three deuces are line #5 — three of a kind except aces — which sits below the made hand. See the full solver-optimized strategy chart, or drill hands with exact-EV feedback until plays like this are automatic.

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