NSUD Deuces Wild Strategy and Pay Table
NSUD, or Not So Ugly Deuces, makes all four deuces wild. The minimum paying hand becomes three of a kind, and the table adds a natural royal, wild royal, four deuces, and five of a kind.
- Perfect-play return
- 99.73%
- House edge
- 0.27%
- Sharper Edge volatility
- Mediumvolatility Medium, level 3 of 5
Overview
How this game plays
Every deal is organized first by the number of deuces it contains. Pairs and two pair no longer pay by themselves, while wild-assisted straights, flushes, quads, and royals become central. Sharper Edge rates the game Medium volatility but Advanced strategy.
The return shown is the configured long-run return at max bet with exact strategy, not a prediction for a single session.
Advanced
Who it suits
- Advanced players ready to rebuild strategy around wild cards.
- Learners who want to classify holds by zero, one, two, three, or four deuces.
- Players seeking the highest configured perfect-play return in this catalog.
NSUD
Full pay table and rules
Payouts below are credits returned for wagers of one through five coins. Sharper Edge practice always uses the five-coin maximum, highlighted at right.
| Hand | 1 coin | 2 coins | 3 coins | 4 coins | 5 coins |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Natural Royal Flush | 250 | 500 | 750 | 1,000 | 4,000* |
| Straight Flush | 10 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 |
| Four Deuces | 200 | 400 | 600 | 800 | 1,000 |
| Wild Royal Flush | 25 | 50 | 75 | 100 | 125 |
| Five of a Kind | 16 | 32 | 48 | 64 | 80 |
| Four of a Kind | 4 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 20 |
| Full House | 4 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 20 |
| Flush | 3 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 15 |
| Straight | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 |
| Three of a Kind | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
All four 2s are wild and stand in for any card. Minimum paying hand: three of a kind — pairs and two pair pay nothing. Standard play uses a 52-card deck, a five-card deal, one draw, and any hold from zero through five cards.
*The starred royal category returns 250-for-1 below max bet and 800-for-1 at the five-coin maximum. In this Deuces Wild game, that bonus applies to the natural royal; the separate wild royal remains at its listed payout. Return and edge shown on this page assume max bet and exact strategy.
Pay-table identity
What makes it different
All four 2s are wild. That one rule changes everything: the minimum paying hand is three of a kind, five of a kind exists, and a “wild royal” pays 25-for-1 while a natural royal still pays 800-for-1.
Its configured perfect-play return is 99.73%, the highest among the ten included tables. Five of a kind pays 16-for-1, the straight flush 10-for-1, and four of a kind and a full house each pay 4-for-1.
What to practice
Strategy priorities
- 1Treat every deuce as the anchor of the decision and start by counting how many were dealt.
- 2With no deuce, pairs lose their Jacks or Better status because nothing pays until three of a kind.
- 3With one deuce, four to a wild royal beats breaking the draw for a made hand — wild royals pay 25-for-1 and the deuce does the work.
- 4Forget JoB instincts about small pairs; nothing pays until three of a kind.
Worked decision
Break a made flush for the wild-royal draw
Discard 7♦ and keep 2♦ A♦ K♦ Q♦.
Four to the wild royal: 3.489 EV per coin · made flush: 3.000.
Standing pat guarantees the 3-for-1 flush, but the four-card hold can finish a 25-for-1 wild royal and retains several other paying completions. Exact analysis favors drawing one.
EV is per coin and comes from enumerating every legal draw for this exact five-card deal.
Baseline
Compared with 9/6 Jacks or Better
NSUD Deuces Wild changes both the payouts and the decision priorities. Percentage-point deltas below use 9/6 Jacks or Better as the reference.
| Metric | NSUD Deuces Wild | 9/6 baseline | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perfect-play return | 99.73% | 99.54% | ▲ +0.19 pp |
| House edge | 0.27% | 0.46% | ▼ −0.19 pp |
| Sharper Edge volatility | Medium | Low | ▲ +1 levels |
Keep comparing
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Turn the pay table into a decision habit
Practice NSUD Deuces Wild with all 32 holds ranked by exact EV, then review the cost of every decision separately from the cards you happened to draw.