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Introduction

Gin and Win is a table game based on the card game gin. Marketed by AGS, it made its Nevada casino debut in a field trial at the Golden Nugget in Laughlin in March, 2018. The bottom line is a house edge on the base game of 2.51% and an element of risk of 1.49%.

Rules

Following are the rules as given to me by AGS, the game distributor. I have an unconfirmed report that at the Golden Nugget they are following slightly modified rules, specifically on the dealer qualifying point and the Gin Bonus side bet.

For those unfamiliar with the game of gin, the object is to create an ten-card hand composed entirely of cards in sets. Qualifying sets in gin are at least three of the same rank and a suited run of cards, or straight flush, of at least three cards in length. Aces are low only. Cards that do not belong in a set are called 'dead wood.' When a player wins, he will get points in accordance to how much dead wood his opponent has.

The object of trying to put as many cards as you can in sets, with the goal of minimizing dead wood, is also the goal of Gin and Win. It should be emphasized that pairs and flushes of at least three cards count as sets in Gin and Win. The full rules are as follows:

1. Cards are ranked as in poker, except aces are low only.
2. To begin, each player must post an Ante bet. He may also wager on the optional Gin Bonus side bet.
3. The player and dealer are each dealt seven cards, face down.
4. The player looks at his hand and removes any combinations of pairs, trips, and quads (rank melds), or any flushes of three cards or more cards (suit melds). One card cannot be part of more than one set.
5. The remaining cards are known as 'Dead Wood' and are set apart from the cards that belong to a set.
6. The player must next either match his Ante with a Play wager equal to his Ante, or else fold his hand. Folded hands immediately lose, and Antes are collected by the Dealer.
7. Once all action is complete, the dealer reveals his hand. The dealer forms the optimal rank and suit melds to minimize his remaining Dead Wood cards. Given multiple ways to achieve the same minimum number of remaining Dead Wood cards, the dealer will chose the way that minimizes the highest card.
8. The dealer qualifies with three or less Dead Wood cards, or with four Dead Wood cards, all ranked ten or lower.
9. If the dealer doesn’t qualify, then the player automatically wins even-money on his Ante, and the play bet pushes.
10. If the dealer qualifies, then the player and dealer hand will be compared, and hand with fewer Dead Wood cards wins. If the Player and Dealer have the same number of Dead Wood cards, then the hand with the lower highest card wins. If that does not break the tie, then the second highest cards will be compared, and so forth until the tie is broken, unless the number and ranks of the Dead Wood cards are exactly the same.
11. If the player wins the comparison with zero cards, then the Ante bet pays 3 to 1. Otherwise, if the player beats the dealer with one or more cards, then the Ante bet pays 1 to 1.
12. If the two hands are equal, both bets push.
13. If the dealer wins the comparison, both the Ante and Play bets lose.
14. The optional Gin Bonus side bet is resolved based only the player's cards, according to the pay table below.

Following is the Gin Bonus pay table. All wins are on a 'to one' basis.

Gin Bonus Pay Table

Strategy

The player should make the Play bet with a hand of 10-9-5-4 or better. In other words, three or fewer Dead Wood cards, or four ranked 10-9-5-4 or better. Note that is almost the same as the dealer qualifying strategy.

Ante and Play Analysis

According to the math report by GLI, the house edge, as defined as the ratio of the expected loss to the Ante wager, is 4.31%. The player will raise 68.36% of the time, for an average final wager of 1.6836 units. The element of risk, defined as the ratio of the expected player loss to the average total amount bet, is 2.56%.

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Gin Bonus Analysis

The following table shows the analysis of the Gin Bonus bet. The lower right cell shows a house edge of 7.19%.

Gin Bonus Analysis

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank AGS, the game distributor, for sharing the math report by GLI with me.

External Links

• AGS — Official web site from the game distributor, AGS.
• Wizard of Vegas — Discussion about Gin and Win.

The last decade has been good for Matt 'OLD TIME GIN' Stone. He's earned $3.5 million in PokerStars tournament cashes and dozens of outright victories, the second-largest being his $83,000 score winning the Super Tuesday back in August 2012.

Two months after that landmark victory OLD TIME GIN found himself one spot away from a second title. After starting heads-up play with the shorter stack, he got his money in ahead. But he finished runner-up when his opponent rivered a flush a dozen hands in. He earned what was at the time the third-largest cash of his career, but had to put his hopes for a second title on the back burner.

Tonight, five and a half years later, he finally returned to the scene of that disappointment and made the most of the opportunity, walking away with a personal top-ten cash and a second career Super Tuesday title.

OLD TIME GIN enjoyed a relatively breezy path to the final table tonight. He first took over the chip lead with about 50 players left and held one of the bigger stacks until there were two tables remaining. From there he maintained a stack worth about 50 big blinds until viktorrz was eliminated on the bubble, setting the final table line-up:

The start of OLD TIME GIN's third shot at a Super Tuesday title

Seat 1: OLD TIME GIN (603,237 in chips)
$3.5 million in PokerStars cashes
Seat 2: lbd.pkr (1,281,919 in chips)
WCOOP 2017 finalist
Seat 3: I'am_Sound (229,032 in chips)
past SCOOP-Medium champ
Seat 4: Juanki 'B4NKR0LL3R' Vecino (1,406,194 in chips)
finished seventh in the Winter Series Main Event last month
Seat 5: Internett93o (875,610 in chips)
past Sunday Million winner
Seat 6: Kenny 'SpaceyFCB' Hallaert (569,213 in chips)
past Sunday Warm-Up & SCOOP winner, won the 8-1-17 Super Tuesday
Seat 7: Kristen 'krissyb24' Bicknell (993,242 in chips)
2013 WSOP Ladies Event champ
Seat 8: slarki1 (490,477 in chips)
past WCOOP finalist, bubbled last week's Super Tuesday final
Seat 9: Roman 'RomeOpro' Romanovskyi (726,076 in chips)
$4.6 million in PokerStars cashes

I'am_Sound had an uphill battle in trying to top a sixth-place finish in the Super Tuesday two weeks ago. Things started fortuitously enough with A♥A♦ and a double through Kenny 'SpaceyFCB' Hallaert's A♣Q♥.

Then I'am_Sound defended the big blind with Q♦T♥ against OLD TIME GIN's button raise and made top pair on the Q♥3♠5♥ flop. I'am_Sound check-raised to 64,000 chips there and, after OLD TIME GIN called and the 4♣ came on the turn, bet another 77,184. OLD TIME GIN called again, the 7♠ came on the river, and this time I'am_Sound checked. OLD TIME GIN moved all-in and I'am_Sound called, only to see top pair beaten by OLD TIME GIN's wheel straight with A♠2♦. With that I'am_Sound left in ninth.

SpaceyFCB had been left in desperate straits by that earlier loss to I'am_Sound. He had a great opportunity to get back in the game a bit later when he was dealt K♦T♣ in the big blind and Internett93o opened all-in from the small blind with Q♥9♦. SpaceyFCB called and stayed ahead on the flop and turn before Internett93o made a pair of nines on the river of the 8♦A♣5♦4♣9♣ board, ending SpaceyFCB's bid for a second Super Tuesday title in eighth.

The next hour was for the most part played seven-handed. The short stacks were winning when it counted. Roman 'RomeOpro' Romanovskyi got down to just a few big blinds before doubling with Q♣Q♠ and slarki1 did the same with T♣T♠. Kristen 'krissyb24' Bicknell took a few losses during this stretch, including one with pocket fours against RomeOpro's pocket fives, and her stack fell to around 20 big blinds before she tried to steal the blinds and antes, moving all-in from the small blind with J♥3♦. slarki1 called with 7♠7♣ in the big blind for less than eight big blinds but left in seventh when the 2♣A♣K♥J♣Q♦ board gave krissyb24 a pair of jacks.

The next 25 minutes saw lots of small pots with the occasional double-up, first for Internett93o, who made a flush with A♠Q♠ to beat OLD TIME GIN's T♦T♠, and then for OLD TIME GIN, whose A♣8♠ topped Juanki 'B4NKR0LL3R' Vecino's Q♦J♥. That all turned out to be the prologue to a monster three-way pot that boosted OLD TIME GIN to the top of the leader board.

lbd.pkr opened the action with a min-raise to 70,000 under the gun, which was followed by a krissyb24 re-raise to 494,582 on the button and an OLD TIME GIN four-bet to 1,721,440. lbd.pkr snap-called with A♦A♥, a 2-to-1 favorite against the field of OLD TIME GIN's K♥K♣ and krissyb24's 9♣9♦, but finished second in the pot when the board fell K♦3♥T♦5♥6♠ to make three kings for OLD TIME GIN. OLD TIME GIN dragged the 3.97-million-chip pot and krissyb24 left in sixth.

RomeOpro had been making the most of very little throughout the final table and he finally found himself all-in for a bit under 10 big blinds after opening under the gun with K♠T♦ and calling when Internett93o jammed from the big blind with A♥7♥. A pair of tens on the flop yielded to Internett93o's turned aces and sevens as the board came T♥5♦7♦A♣8♦ and RomeOpro exited in fifth.

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OLD TIME GIN had a firm advantage now with 63 percent of the chips in play. Two of the other three remaining players soon picked up big starting hands and clashed before the flop, Internett93o with A♠K♠ and lbd.pkr with K♦K♥. Internett93o's chances improved greatly on the 4♠Q♣9♠ flop but that was as good as things got; the 5♦ turn and 5♥ river locked up the 1.8-million-chip pot for lbd.pkr and eliminated Internett93o in fourth.

The question now was who would end up facing OLD TIME GIN heads-up. The answer hung in the balance of three pots played out by lbd.pkr and B4NKR0LL3R.

The latter doubled up early during three-handed play with A♣T♣ against OLD TIME GIN's K♣Q♥, then defended the big blind with K♣2♣ and made a club flush on the same turn card that gave lbd.pkr queens and nines with Q♠9♥. Winning that 2-million-chip pot moved B4NKR0LL3R ahead of lbd.pkr before the two played out the pot that ended lbd.pkr's tournament.

B4NKR0LL3R min-raised with J♠T♥ on the button, lbd.pkr called in the big blind with 8♥6♥, and both checked the 9♥8♣6♦ flop. B4NKR0LL3R called 125,000 chips on the draw after the 4♠ turn and snap-called when lbd.pkr shoved for 573,419 after the Q♣ came on the river. B4NKR0LL3R's queen-high straight was good for the pot and lbd.pkr bowed out in third.

Heads-up play began with both players holding nearly equal stacks

That win moved B4NKR0LL3R ever so slightly into the lead with 3.6 million chips to OLD TIME GIN's 3.57 million as heads-up play began, previewing a hard-fought 50-minute-plus duel. OLD TIME GIN got out to an early lead but then B4NKR0LL3R jammed for two million with T♠T♦ and doubled when the pair held up against OLD TIME GIN's pair of eights and a straight draw that didn't come home. OLD TIME GIN struck back with two million-chip pots in a row but then picked a bad time to bluff; he check-raised out of position with A♥8♦ on a 2♦K♦2♥ flop and then fired off another 1.6 million after the turn and river, only to lose when B4NKR0LL3R turned over J♠2♠ for trip deuces.

That loss left OLD TIME GIN's hopes for a second Super Tuesday title pinned to a 15-big-blind chip stack - just enough, as it turned out. First he jammed on the button with A♦6♠ and doubled to 1.5 million chips against B4NKR0LL3R's Q♣J♠. On the next hand he earned 1.1 million after flopping a flush draw with J♦5♦ and making a pair of jacks on the river. And three hands after that he limped on the button with A♠T♥ and then moved all-in when B4NKR0LL3R raised in the small blind. B4NKR0LL3R called with A♥9♥ but lost out on the 4.2-million-chip pot after the T♣ on the flop gave OLD TIME GIN a pair of tens.

B4NKR0LL3R was far from out of the game, but OLD TIME GIN had control. The two battled for another 20 minutes before B4NKR0LL3R limped in with Q♦Q♠ on the button and then called when OLD TIME GIN jammed with A♥9♠. A nine on the flop and an ace on the turn gave OLD TIME GIN aces and nines, and the K♣ on the river gave him his second career Super Tuesday victory.

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Winning this tournament once is tough. To do so twice is the mark of a player who's at ease in a tough field. Congratulations to OLD TIME GIN on another big victory!

2/27/18 Super Tuesday ($1,050 NL Hold'em) results
Entrants: 287
Total prize pool: $287,000
Places paid: 39

1. Matt 'OLD TIME GIN' Stone (Canada) $54,731.14
2. Juanki 'B4NKR0LL3R' Vecino (Morocco) $40,704.52
3. lbd.pkr (Russia) $30,272.81
4. Internett93o (Brazil) $22,514.51
5. Roman 'RomeOpro' Romanovskyi (Ukraine) $16,744.52
6. Kristen 'krissyb24' Bicknell (Canada) $12,453.24
7. slarki1 (Canada) $9,261.74
8. Kenny 'SpaceyFCB' Hallaert (United Kingdom) $6,888.17
9. I'am_Sound (Switzerland) $5,122.86