Video Poker Tips
Fast Track Gambling Tips
Video
Poker Tips includes paytables, betting, strategies
and lingo.
Video Poker Tips is a fast track gambling tips lesson for casino games
and can be printed for your next casino visit online or off.
1)
Learn how to read pay
tables to understand the difference between full-pay and short-pay
Video Poker versions.
Pay
tables: VP
payouts are listed on the schedule at each machine. The schedule shows
how much
you will win when you hit a certain hand with a single coin or any
number of
coins up to the maximum, (usually 5) which offer the largest payoffs
possible.
If
you bet 5 coins, all winning hands are paid out multiplied by a factor
of 5,
except for the
Royal Flush. This is a bonus amount designed as an incentive to play
maximum
coins.
2) Examples
of VP
Versions:
9/5 Deuces Wild
7/5 Jokers Wild
10/7 Double Bonus--2 pair pays 1
Pick ‘Em Poker--pair of 9’s or better is the minimum payout
9/6 Jacks or Better--2 pair pays 2
8/5 Bonus Jacks or Better--2 pair pays 2, Four Aces pays 400
9/6 Double Double Bonus--4 Aces with 2, 3 or 4 pays 2000
3) The first two numbers reflect the payouts for a full
house and flush as per one coin payout.
Therefore, a 10/7 Double Bonus VP version would pay 10 coins
for a full house and 7 coins for a flush for a one coin bet.
The exception being for Deuces Wild version which reflect
the payouts for a straight flush and 4 of a kind as per one coin
payout. The
minimum payout for Deuces games is 3-of-a-kind.
In addition, because Bonus VP versions offer higher payouts
for four aces and four 2’s, 3’s and 4’s, the pair and two pair payouts
are
often the same--1 coin.
VP versions that pay 2 for 2 pair are Jacks+ and Bonus
Jacks+ in the guide above.
4) Learn optimum
strategy
for each VP
version, before you
play.
Strategies for 3 of the most popular VP versions follow:
5)
Jacks or
Better
(Jacks+) Video Poker Tips
Maximum coin pays winning
hands multiplied
by a factor of 5,
except Royal Flush (4000) which is an incentive to always play maximum
coins
each hand.
20% of hands dealt will be paying hands. 3% of the
time, you
will toss all five cards.
Strategy:
- The
ace is not the most
important card. A jack, queen or king will also return your bet when
paired.
- Never
keep a kicker —
that’s an additional face card — with any pair. To do so
reduces your return by 5%. Let that pair stand and draw 3 cards.
- Don’t
break a flush even
if you can draw one to a straight flush. However, always break a flush
to draw one card to a royal flush.
- If
you have four cards in succession for a straight, draw one card.
- If
all
your cards are 10
or under with no possibility in sight for a winner, it’s best to opt
for five new cards.
6)
Deuces
Wild Video Poker Tips
There is a generous payout for
a secondary
jackpot of 4
Deuces.
Approximately every 5000 hands=4 Deuces.
Almost
20% of the time, you will throw away all five cards.
Strategy:
- Don’t
hold two pair as
minimum payout is 3 of a kind. One pair only held.
- Never
hold one card only,
except a Deuce.
- Never
hold two cards
unless pair or 2-card royal draw, but not AK.
- Never
hold just one other
card with one, two or three Deuces.
- If
there are no Deuces:
draw to an inside Royal or Straight Flush because of the wild card
possibility.
- Jack
to 7 offers the best straight or straight
flush potential.
- Play
Double or Loose
Deuces versions where secondary jackpot of 4 Deuces pays double.
Strategy change: hold three Deuces alone.
Deuces Wild is a
'roller
coaster
ride' of a game. Bankroll
fluctuations are expected.
7) Jokers Wild
Video Poker Tips
Fifty-three
card deck to include one Joker on the standard
version.
Strategy:
- Go
for
a Straight Flush
when possible for the higher return with a wild card.
- Break
up 3 of a kind for
any 4-card Straight Flush.
- Hold
a
lower pair instead
of trying for an inside Straight. Although this is a wild card game,
the pay for Straights has been reduced from 4 to 3.
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