Multi-Hand Game

A multi-hand game resolves several hands at once from a single decision. It is most familiar in video poker, where 3, 5, 10, 50 or 100 hands are played from one set of held cards, and in blackjack, where a player takes more than one betting box. The detail that matters is cost: each hand carries its own stake, so a five-hand video poker round at five coins per hand costs 25 coins, not five. The house edge on each individual hand is unchanged, but staking five or fifty times per round multiplies how quickly a balance moves in either direction. Multi-hand play also speeds up a session, since more results resolve per minute. Anyone using it should scale the per-hand stake down rather than keeping the single-hand figure.