Tequila Sunrise Poker Machine

The Tequila Sunrise is very easy to make, but it must be constructed precisely in order to achieve the desired sunrise look. Tequila and then orange juice (fresh is best) are added to a highball glass filled with ice. Grenadine is applied last, but due to its density, it sinks to the bottom, creating a red layer at the base of the glass.

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1. Jul 02, 2006 Tequila Poker Introduction. I noticed Tequila Poker on field trial the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas on August 8, 2005. The game lets the player either bet on a poker hand or the total number of points. I find it easy to learn and an interesting twist on poker. It is also refreshing to see a new game without a side bet.
2. Tequila Poker Introduction. I noticed Tequila Poker on field trial the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas on August 8, 2005. The game lets the player either bet on a poker hand or the total number of points. I find it easy to learn and an interesting twist on poker. It is also refreshing to see a new game without a side bet.
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Introduction

I noticed Tequila Poker on field trial the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas on August 8, 2005. The game lets the player either bet on a poker hand or the total number of points. I find it easy to learn and an interesting twist on poker. It is also refreshing to see a new game without a side bet.

Rules

Following are the rules according to the game owner. Some rule cards were printed and distributed to players incorrectly stating a 52-point hand pays 5 to 1. Unless otherwise noted this analysis is based on a 52 paying 7 to 1.

1. A single 52-card deck is used.
2. The player makes an ante wager.
3. The player is dealt four cards face down. The player may look at his cards but sharing of information between players is frowned upon.
4. The player has three options: (1) make a 'High Tequila' bet, (2) make a 'Tequila Poker' bet, or (3) fold. There are designated circles on the table for the ante and both 'Tequila' bets.
5. If the player makes either it bet it must be exactly equal to the ante.
6. If the player folds he forfeits his cards and his ante.
7. If the player made either bet he shall get two more cards.
8. If the player made the 'High Tequila' bet cards will be scored according to their blackjack value, with aces always as 11 points. The sum of the point value of the highest five cards will be taken. If the player has 46 points or more then his ante bet shall pay even money and his 'High Tequila' bet according to the pay table below.
9. If the player made the 'Tequila Poker' bet cards will be scored according to their poker value. The best five of the six cards will be used to form the highest possible poker hand. If the player has a pair of aces or more then his ante bet shall pay even money and his 'Tequila Poker' bet according to the pay table below.

High Tequila Pay Table

Hand	Pays
54	200 to 1
53	15 to 1
52	7to 1
51	4 to 1
50	3 to 1
49	2 to 1
46 to 48	1 to 1
45 or less	Loss

Tequila Poker Pay Table

Hand	Pays
Royal flush	200 to 1
Straight flush	50 to 1
Four of a kind	15 to 1
Full house	8 to 1
Flush	7 to 1
Straight	5 to 1
Three of a kind	3 to 1
Two pair	2 to 1
Pair of aces	1 to 1
Other	Loss

Analysis

The following table shows the possible outcomes when the player makes the High Tequila bet. The probability and return columns are relative to all hands, including when the player plays the Tequila Poker bet or folds. The bottom row shows the player will make the High Tequila bet 30.09% of the time when playing the proper strategy, for an average win of 0.2036 units per hand.

High Tequila Return Table

Hand	Pays	Combinations	Probability	Return
54	201	7896	0.000026	0.005197
53	16	216858	0.00071	0.011362
52	8	1662006	0.005442	0.04354
51	5	4709738	0.015423	0.077113
50	4	6835090	0.022382	0.08953
49	3	8185326	0.026804	0.080412
46 to 48	2	26528458	0.086871	0.173742
45 or less	-2	42122828	0.137937	-0.275874
Total	90268200	0.295595	0.205022

The next table shows the possible outcomes when the player makes the Tequila Poker bet. The probability and return columns are relative to all hands, including when the player plays the High Tequila bet or folds. The bottom row shows the player will make the Tequila Poker bet 31.805% of the time when playing the proper strategy, for an average win of 0.1442 units per hand.

Tequila Poker Return Table

Hand	Pays	Combinations	Probability	Return
Royal flush	201	1216	0.000004	0.0008
Straight flush	51	19968	0.000065	0.003335
Four of a kind	16	190116	0.000623	0.009961
Full house	9	2075976	0.006798	0.061183
Flush	8	1832708	0.006001	0.048012
Straight	6	2097204	0.006868	0.041205
Three of a kind	4	7276704	0.023829	0.095314
Two pair	3	22930308	0.075088	0.225265
Pair of aces	2	3806232	0.012464	0.024928
Other	-2	56344416	0.184507	-0.369014
Total	96574848	0.316247	0.140988

Finally, the player should fold 38.798% of the time, for a net loss of one unit.

The final table summarizes the three possible actions and the contribution to the total return of each.

Tequila Poker Return Table

Action	Combinations	Probability	Expected Value	Return
High Tequila	90268200	0.295595	0.69359	0.205022
Tequila Poker	96574848	0.316247	0.445817	0.140988
Fold	118534752	0.388158	-1	-0.388158
Total	305377800	1	0	-0.042147

The table above shows the house edge is 4.21%. With an average wager of 1.612 units the element of risk is 2.61%.

Rule Variations

If a total of 52 were to pay 5 to 1, as opposed to 7 to 1, then the house edge would be 5.27% and the element of risk 3.27%.

Strategy

To prepare my analysis above I wrote a computer program to determine the proper strategy for each possible hand. As with video poker games the optimal strategy is quite complicated, so here is a greatly abbreviated version which will help in most situations.

1. Between folding and playing the Tequila Poker bet, the player should make the bet with any pair, or four to any flush or straight (including an inside straight).
2. Between folding and playing the High Tequila bet, the player should play the High Tequila bet if his highest three cards total 28 points or more.
3. When both the above conditions are satisfied you're on your own.

Written by:Michael Shackleford

What you don’t know about Jose Cuervo could fill a shot glass, assuming said shot glass were about the size of a Big Gulp (don’t actually try to shoot anything that comes out of a Big Gulp). True, most of us made our first (and possibly last) acquaintance with Cuervo sometime between earning the right to vote and stumbling into the right to drink. But it probably shouldn’t surprise that there’s a whole lot more history behind the biggest tequila brand in the world.

Some of it’s a little iffy—we didn’t include Cuervo’s claim to inventing the Margarita. And some of it’s pretty bawdy (but we left out most non-beverage details of the Rolling Stones’ infamous “Cocaine and Tequila Sunrise” tour). But a lot of it—and, with about 250 years there’s bound to be a lot of it—is surprisingly rooted in history, from the first official tequila production license to the huge debt of gratitude tequila-loving Americans owe the early rail workers.

Whether you drink añejo neat or knock back shot after shot (in which case, see “Shelly West” below), learn a little bit more about Cuervo. And try not to forget it.

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It’s the biggest tequila brand in the world.

Wherever your feelings land on the tequila/Cuervo question, you gotta pay some respect here. Cuervo’s market share has been falling in recent years, but it’s still the world’s biggest tequila producer. (And, FYI, the U.S. is the world’s largest consumer, knocking back over 50% of the market.)

Cuervo got a royal start.

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Cuervo might seem like a 20^th-century college mainstay, but it actually got its start with a royal grant of land. In 1758, King Ferdinand VI gave Jose Antonio de Cuervo y Valdes a “writ of land ownership” to grow agave for tequila production.

It actually took two kings to get Cuervo going. (Not bad.)

By 1795, King Carlos IV finally granted Jose Maria Guadalupe Cuervo y Montana the first (as in first-ever) license “to produce and distribute tequila.”

Cuervo was started by the Cuervos. But it’s owned by the Beckmanns.

Cuervo’s history is certainly long and, like many illustrious spirits brands, it starts with a family name. But today, the Cuervo brand is actually owned by the billionaire Beckmann family based out of Mexico City.

We’ve been drinking Cuervo since the 19^th century. (Not continuously.)

We can thank the rise of the railroad for bringing Cuervo to the States. The tequila made its first stop in California in 1852, just in time to help gold rushers drown their sorrows when the shiny rocks they’d gathered didn’t turn out to be gold.

Cuervo was the first to go glass.

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Seems like late timing, but when Jose Cuervo started putting its tequila in glass bottles in the late 19^th century, it was actually the first tequila company to do so. Demand was so high that the only way to keep the good stuff flowing was by parceling it out.

Yeah, some Cuervo is mixto. Not great.

“Mixto” is the term given to a tequila in which only 51% of the alcohol comes from agave (specifically Blue Weber) and the rest from sugarcane juice. The lower-end Cuervo is mixto, and says “Made with Agave” on the label. Pepper-hot, but not the best quality tequila, but if you can spend $10 or so extra, you’ll get into 100% agave territory.

Plenty of Cuervo is 100% Agave. And it gets even more special!

The Tradicional Reposado is 100% agave, a little sweeter with less piquant pepper, usually available for about $30. And then there are bottles like the $100 Reserva de la Familia, aged in French oak barrels for the three-year añejo max.

There is a blacking-out-drunk song about Cuervo.

To be fair, country singer Shelly West could have gotten drunk on any ol’ tequila. But as the lyrics go, “Jose Cuervo, you are a friend of mine. I like to drink you with a little salt and lime.” And then she goes on to ask “Did I …” about a number of possibilities from her tequila-fueled night (e.g., “Did I kiss all the cowboys? Did I shoot out the lights?”). Apparently Cuervo makes you a bad ass. And yes, actually a pretty good sing-along song.

Speaking of music, Cuervo was part of the “Cocaine and Tequila Sunrise Tour.”

Before they tasted Jose Cuervo, The Rolling Stones were actually a pretty straight-edged crew. They mostly loved doing puzzles together. Just kidding. Debauchery was probably second nature by then (just look at those haircuts), though the band did supposedly taste its first Tequila Sunrise before starting its 1972 American tour, at a bar called The Trident in San Francisco. Whether it was made with Cuervo is unclear, but it is pretty certain that Cuervo was the drink of choice on board the Lapping Tongue (the tour plane’s nickname, for obvious reasons).

Cuervo loves beach volleyball.

Sure, Cuervo might have had a song written about it, and it probably got Charlie Watts into the mile-high club. But Cuervo was actually the first major sponsor of a beach volleyball tournament, in 1978. (You can check out footage of the 2012 Jose Cuervo Huntington Beach Pro Beach Volleyball Championships here; good/bad news is none of the players appear to be drunk.)

Cuervo’s about to go all stock market-y on our asses.

As recently as May of this year it was reported that Cuervo might take its market power to, well, the “market,” with an initial public offering, possibly in the U.S. If that’s the case, Cuervo would become “the third-largest U.S. IPO of the year.”

Cuervo does Irish whiskey, too.

OK, not quite. You won’t open a bottle of Cuervo and pour out single pot still whiskey (not least because that stuff legally has to be made in Ireland). But the Cuervo company did buy Irish whiskey, acquiring Bushmills in 2014 (actually trading Don Julio for Bushmills). And just like you probably shouldn’t mix tequila and whiskey, Cuervo won’t be mucking with the historic Bushmills recipe anytime soon.

Cuervo wants you to come visit…

Despite the proximity of the active Jalisco drug cartel, the Beckmann family wants to turn the town of Tequila into a destination for tequila lovers, not unlike a Napa Valley-type of place, complete with luxury hotels and dining destinations. The main attraction, of course, would be the Cuervo. And safety. Hopefully, safety.