Editorial Staff. “How to Play Ultimate X Video Poker – Casino Player Magazine | Strictly Slots Magazine | Casino Gambling Tips”. Editorial Staff. “How To Play Pick ‘Em Poker – Casino Player Magazine | Strictly Slots Magazine | Casino Gambling Tips”. Other kinds of video poker only have positive theoretical returns when the progressive jackpot is high enough. A common promotion used by casinos to encourage play on this tight paytable was to add a 2% progressive meter to the royal flush. A version common in the early days of video poker, but rarely found today, is “Pick a Pair” where the player is presented two up cards and chooses between two pairs of three cards, one of which is face up and the other face down. When modern video poker games first appeared, the highest-paying common variant of a particular game was called “full-pay”. 8/6 Jacks or Better is another often used pay table for Jacks or Better games. Jacks or Better which offers bonus payoffs for different four of a kinds, as seen in the payout table below.
All the other hand combinations in video poker are the same as in table poker, including such hands as two pair, three of a kind, straight (a sequence of 5 cards of consecutive value), flush (any 5 cards of the same suit), full house (a pair and a three of a kind), four of a kind (four cards of the same value), straight flush (5 consecutive cards of the same suit) and royal flush (a Ten, a Jack, a Queen, a King and an Ace of the same suit). This reduces the maximum payout percentage to 96.15% for players betting five coins per hand to receive the Royal Flush bonus. This reduces the maximum payout percentage to 98.39% for players betting five coins per hand to receive the Royal Flush bonus. This reduces the maximum payout percentage to 98.45% for players betting five coins per hand to receive the Royal Flush bonus. Jacks or Better with a bonus payout for four aces.
Bally Technologies All American video poker is based on Jacks or Better with an increased payout for flushes, straights and straight flushes, but reduced payout for full houses and two pairs (8-8-8-3-1 versus 9-6-4-3-2). The full pay version (quads return 50 bets), once common but now rare, is one of the highest return versions of video poker offered, but the play strategy is very complex and mastered by few. Sigma Flush Attack is a combination of video poker and a banking slot, in this case what is being banked is flushes. A few people who are skilled in calculating odds have become professional video poker players. This variation offers up to a theoretical return of 100.2 percent, when played with perfect strategy – however, this % is only on a “10/7” version video poker game (10/7 being the payouts for a full house and a flush). Deuces Wild can be found with pay schedules that offer a theoretical return as high as 100.8 percent, when played with perfect strategy. Strategy is similar between the two games, in spite of the very different full house and flush payouts. Full pay Jacks or Better is also known as 9/6 Jacks or Better since the payoff for a full house is 9 times the bet, and the payoff for a flush is 6 times the bet.
7/5 Jacks or Better cuts the Full House payout from 9x your bet to 7x your bet, and also cuts the Flush payout from 6x your bet to 5x your bet. Often casinos choose to use pay tables which reduce the maximum payout percentage as compared to other commonly available game variants. Payback percentage expresses the long-term expected value of the player’s wager as a percentage if the game is played perfectly. A payback percentage of 99 percent, for example, indicates that for each $100 wagered, in the long run, the player would expect to lose $1 if they played every hand in the optimal way. Some of these machines are linked, which means players can simply wait for someone else to put the bank in flush attack mode, or alternately with non-linked machines a player can play after observing a previous player hit flushes but not enough to trigger the flush attack, a practice called “vulturing”. The player is then given 5 cards (like five-card draw) and has the opportunity to discard one or more of them in exchange for new ones drawn from the same virtual deck.
