Video Poker

Video Poker is one of the most popular games played at modern day casinos, second in popularity only to slots, and possibly blackjack. Video poker is a relatively new casino game based on five-card draw poker and is played on a computerized game console similar to a video slot machine.

the Game

Game play begins by placing a bet of one or more credits, by inserting money (or in newer machines, a barcoded paper ticket with credit) into the machine, and then pressing a "Deal" button to draw cards. The player is then given an opportunity to keep or discard one or more of the cards in exchange for a new card drawn from the same virtual deck, after which the machine evaluates the hand and offers a payout if the hand matches one of the winning hands in the posted pay schedule.

On a typical video poker machine, payouts start with a minimum hand of a pair of jacks. Pay schedules allocate the payout for hands based partially upon how rare they are, and also based upon the total theoretical return the game operator chooses to offer.

Some machines offer progressive jackpots for the royal flush , (and sometimes for other rare hands as well), thereby spurring players to both play more coins and to play more frequently.

There are several variations in video poker, such as Deuces Wild, where a two can serve as a wild card and a jackpot is paid for four deuces or a natural royal flush and multi-play poker, where the player starts with a base hand of five cards, and each additional played hand draws from a different set of cards with the base hand removed. (Multi-play games are offered in "Triple Play", "Five Play", "Ten Play", "Fifty Play" and even "One Hundred Play" versions.

Jacks or Better

"Jacks or Better" is the most common variation of video poker available. Payoffs begin at a pair of jacks or better. Full pay Jacks or Better is also known as 9/6 Jacks or Better; the 9 refers to the payoff for a full house and the 6 refers to the payoff for a flush. Full pay Jacks or Better has a theoretical return of 99.54% when played with perfect strategy.

Hand 1 credit 2 credits 3 credits 4 credits 5 credits Royal Flush Straight Flush Four of a kind Full House Flush Straight Three of a Kind Two Pair Jacks or Better Theoretical Return

250	500	750	1000	4000*
50	100	150	200	250
25	50	75	100	125
9	18	27	36	45
6	12	18	24	30
4	8	12	16	20
3	6	9	12	15
2	4	6	8	10
1	2	3	4	5
98.05%	98.05%	98.05%	98.05%%	99.54%*

*Notice the gap between the payoff for a Natural Royal Flush played with 4 credits vs. one with 5 credits. The payoff schedule for most video poker machines has a gap like this, such that players who do not play with the maximum number of credits at a time are playing with a smaller theoretical return.

Deuces Wild

"Deuces Wild" is a variation of video poker in which all twos are wild. (Wild cards substitute for any other card in the deck in order to make a better poker hand. In Deuces Wild, the payout for a four of a kind makes up approximately 1/3 of the payback percentage of the game, and a four of a kind occurs on average once every 15 hands or so. Deuces Wild can be found with pay schedules that offer a theoretical return as high as 100.762%, when played with perfect strategy. It is also available with other pay schedules that have lesser theoretical returns:

Hand 1 credit 2 credits 3 credits 4 credits 5 credits Natural Royal Flush Four Deuces Wild Royal Flush Five of a Kind Straight Flush Four of a Kind Full House Flush Straight Three of a Kind Theoretical Return

300	600	900	1200	4000*
200	400	600	800	1000
25	50	75	100	125
15	30	45	60	75
9	18	27	36	45
5	10	15	20	25
3	6	9	12	15
2	4	6	8	10
2	4	6	8	10
1	2	3	4	5
99.679%	99.679%	99.679%	99.679%	100.762%*

*Notice the gap between the payoff for a Natural Royal Flush played with 4 credits vs. one with 5 credits. The payoff schedule for most video poker machines has a gap like this, such that players who do not play with the maximum number of credits at a time are playing with a negative theoretical return.

Double Bonus

"Double Bonus" video poker is a variation of Jacks or Better with a bonus payout for four aces. This variation offers up to a theoretical return of 100.1725%, when played with perfect strategy. It is also available with other pay schedules that have lesser theoretical returns:

Hand 1 credit 2 credits 3 credits 4 credits 5 credits Royal Flush Straight Flush Four Aces Full House Flush Straight Three of a Kind Two Pair Jacks or Better Theoretical Return

250	500	750	1000	4000*
50	100	150	200	250
160	320	480	640	800
10	20	30	40	50
7	14	21	28	35
5	10	15	20	25
3	6	9	12	15
1	2	3	4	5
1	2	3	4	5
99.1079%	99.1079%	99.1079%	99.1079%	100.1725%*

*Notice the gap between the payoff for a Royal Flush played with 4 credits vs. one with 5 credits. Players who do not play with the maximum number of credits at a time are playing with a negative theoretical return.

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