All Aces or Super Aces
Video Poker
by
Gayle
Mitchell
Whether
it is All Aces online or Super Aces at land-based
casinos, this game is big news for Video Poker players--the payout for
Four
Aces leaps to 2000 credits.
The beauty of this payout is
that no
fifth card is required,
unlike Double Double Bonus where a 2, 3 or 4 must be in place.
It is hard to believe, but let me
repeat, four Aces pays
2000 coins and the fifth card does not matter with All Aces.
The super payoff for 4 Aces occurs
approx. every 4200 hands,
thereby producing a ½ Royal win of 2000 coins at a rate of almost 10
times more
than a Royal Flush.
Additionally, All Aces is another VP
version that offers a
higher payout for the much-ignored straight flush by upping the payout
slightly
from 250 to 300. Four 2’s, 3’s and 4’s, pays 400.
With this game, online VP
players can reap the benefits
with this VP version from Microgaming available in single, 10 hand and
50 hand
versions.
The full-pay version of 8/5 (1 coin
payout of 8 coins for a
full house and 5 coins for a flush) returns 99.8 percent with optimum
strategy
and maximum coin in play.
More likely in land-based casinos,
you will find the 7/5
paytable which reduces the 1 coin payout for a full house to 7.
This
version
returns 98.7%.
However, online play for this
version increases the
overall payout to 99.92%.
Why the bump? Because this All Aces
version
pays 500 for four 2’s,
3’s and 4’s rather than 400.
Generally, these ‘super’ versions are
found as a game
selection on the multi-line, triple play machines.
I have provided a 7/5 Super Aces
pay-schedule illustration
below.
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Pay Schedule -
Super Aces - 7/5
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one-coin return
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max.coin
return
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Pair--Jacks or
Better
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returns
bet
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5 coins
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Two pair (2 PR)
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returns
bet
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5 coins
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Three-of-a-kind
(3/kind)
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pays
3-1
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15 coins
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Straight (ST)
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pays
4-1
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20 coins
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Flush (FL)
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pays
5-1
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25 coins
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Full house (FH))
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pays
7-1
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35 coins
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Four-of-a-kind-5-K’s
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pays
50-1
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250 coins
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Four-of-a-kind-2, 3
or 4’s.
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pays
80-1
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400 coins
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Four Aces
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pays
400-1
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2000 coins
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Straight flush (SF)
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pays 60-1
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300 coins
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Royal Flush (RF)
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4000 coins
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Strategy: of
course, you are always on the lookout for a pair or three Aces to hold
awaiting
the ‘big strike’. This game is all about the Aces.
- It is
best to hold only
the Ace if 1 of the other cards is not suited. Example:
Aceclubs, Kinghearts, 7spades, 3clubs, 5diamonds.
- Similarly,
hold only the
Ace if 2 of the other cards is not suited.
Example:
Aceclubs, Kinghearts, Jackspades, 7spades, 3 clubs.
- It’s
not worth the measly
payout for a full-house of 35 coins to save two pair when one of the
pairs is Aces.
- Keep a
watchful eye on
straight flush possibilities that come your way for a 300 coin reward.
As mentioned, Super Aces
is found at
multi-line machines so
three Aces held give you three chances at a nice payday.
In
one video poker session, I was profitably surprised to be
dealt four Aces multiplied by three that resulted in a 6000 coin
payout.
BTW, I have a Super Aces tale that
will lead you to ask, as
I did, ‘what are the long odds on this happening?’
I noticed a player who had a 6000
payout in front of her,
but she had only held three Aces and had not been dealt four Aces.
Think
about that, all three hands produced a fourth ace on
discard!
I entertain my VP friends with this
great payoff story.
May all your VP choices
turn out to
be
‘Royalty’ (or 1/2 Royals in the case of Super Aces).
All
Aces-Super
Aces Video Poker is followed by Super Double VP
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