How to play
Super Double Bonus is a bonus game with four tiers of quads and a fat straight flush. If Aces and Faces and Double Bonus had a child, it would look like this.
Mechanically it’s the standard single-hand machine. You choose 1 to 5 credits (Bet one), then Deal; Bet max is the one-press version at 5 credits. Tap to hold cards, which then read Held, and Draw replaces the others from the remaining deck. A full shuffle of 52 cards comes before each hand.
Hint, after an optional ad, highlights the hold with the highest average pay. It’s an exact calculation, not a table: each of the 32 possible holds is scored over every draw. Credits are virtual, 1,000 at the start and 1,000 free on request when you’re out.
Pay table
| Hand | Per credit |
|---|---|
| Royal Flush | 250 (4,000 at 5 credits) |
| Straight Flush | 80 |
| Four Aces | 160 |
| Four Jacks, Queens or Kings | 120 |
| Four 2s, 3s or 4s | 80 |
| Four 5s through 10s | 50 |
| Full House | 9 |
| Flush | 5 |
| Straight | 4 |
| Three of a Kind | 3 |
| Two Pair | 1 |
| Jacks or Better | 1 |
Called “9/5” for the full house and flush pays. Notice the order of the quads: faces sit between Aces and the low cards, and the mid-ranks (5s through 10s) are the cheapest four of a kind on the table.
The numbers
Perfect play at 5 credits returns 99.69%, exactly counted over all deals and holds. Some frequencies under that play:
- Four Jacks, Queens or Kings: about once every 1,700 hands.
- Four Aces: about once every 4,500 hands.
- Royal flush: about once every 40,600 hands.
- Any paying hand: about 45% of hands.
The face-card tier is the line you’ll feel most. It hits far more often than four Aces and pays 600 at max bet, so it carries a big share of the game’s return.
Strategy
Two pair pays only 1, which makes the “keep both pairs or just one?” question the main strategic theme. The answer depends on which pair you have. All checked with the game’s exact hold values:
Jacks up (J♣ J♦ 8♣ 8♠ 5♥). Keep both pairs, narrowly: about 1.68 per credit against 1.64 for the Jacks alone.
Aces up (A♣ A♦ 8♣ 8♠ 5♥). Keep only the Aces: about 1.75 against 1.68 for both pairs.
A full house of Kings or Jacks (K♣ K♦ K♠ 9♠ 9♣). Keep it. The 9 for the full house beats the roughly 8.35 you’d average by drawing to the three Kings, even with the 120 bonus for four.
A full house of Aces. Break it and hold the three Aces: about 10.05 against 9. Only Aces are valuable enough for this.
A pair of Jacks with four to a flush. Keep the Jacks. The flush only pays 5 on this table, so a paying face pair beats the flush draw.
Four to a straight flush (K♣ Q♣ J♣ 9♣). Hold all four, even though it’s an inside draw. The straight flush pays 80 and the flush is a fallback. This hold is worth about 3 per credit, more than double three to a royal.
Compared with Double Bonus, the flush and straight here pay less, so straight and flush draws are worth less, and face-card pairs and trips are worth more. Bet 5 credits for the royal bonus and lean on Hint for close calls.
If you enjoy Super Double Bonus, try Teen Patti or Temple Tome next.
