Online Deuces Wild Video Poker

Hand	1 coin	2 coins	3 coins	4 coins	5 coins
Royal flush (natural)	250	500	750	1000	4000
Four deuces	200	400	600	800	1000
Royal flush (wild)	25	50	100	125	125
Five of a kind	15	30	45	60	75
Straight flush	9	18	27	36	45
Four of a kind	5	10	15	20	25
Full house	3	6	9	12	15
Flush	2	4	6	8	10
Straight	2	4	6	8	10
Three of a kind	1	2	3	4	5

The above pay table offers a payout percentage of 100.76% if you play with perfect strategy. This pay table isn't really available at many online casinos though, since they're not in the business of giving away money. Most online casinos offer something similar to Not So Ugly Deuces Wild, and that pay table looks like this:

Hand	1 coin	2 coins	3 coins	4 coins	5 coins
Royal flush (natural)	250	500	750	1000	4000
Four deuces	200	400	600	800	1000
Royal flush (wild)	25	50	100	125	125
Five of a kind	16	32	48	64	80
Straight flush	10	20	30	40	50
Four of a kind	4	8	12	16	20
Full house	4	8	12	16	20
Flush	3	6	9	12	15
Straight	2	4	6	8	10
Three of a kind	1	2	3	4	5

The payout percentage for Not So Ugly Deuces Wild, when played with perfect strategy, is 99.73%. This might seem surprising, because the payouts for many of the hands are actually higher than they are in the full pay Deuces Wild pay table. Five a kind, straight flush, full house, and flush payouts are all higher in this version. But the expectation lost by dropping the payout on the four of a kind actually reduces the payout percentage. But 99.73% is still better than most Jacks or Better games.

Not So Ugly Deuces Wild (NSU Deuces Wild) video poker is a little easier to find online.

Online Deuces Wild Strategy

We've provided a simplified strategy for online Deuces Wild video poker below that should provide you with a healthy payback percentage. This is not a complete or perfect strategy for the game, but it's close enough that you can get a tremendous amount of play for your money, which is about all you can expect from any negative expectation game.

Online Deuces Wild Strategy #1

Never hold a single card unless it's a deuce. In Jacks or Better the difference between high and low cards matters, but in Deuces Wild, high cards and low cards are irrelevant. Many times you'll draw 5 new cards when you don't have any deuces.

Online Deuces Wild Strategy #2

Never discard a deuce. Since these are wild cards, they are the absolute best card you could possibly have. A natural royal flush is so rare that it never makes sense to draw to it when you have a deuce. In the long run, you'll lose more than you win by drawing to the natural royal flush.

Online Deuces Wild Strategy #3

Pairs aren't a big deal in deuces wild, so you'll never hold a deuce and just one other card. See our notes in strategy tip #1 about how high cards don't matter. You'll only hold other cards with a deuce if there are 2 other cards worth holding.

Online Deuces Wild Strategy #4

A pair is always better to hold than any flush or straight draw, because you have the chance of hitting four of a kind or five of a kind. The payouts for flushes and straights are no big deal, and even though if you drew to them you might hit more often, the higher payouts for the four and five of a kinds make up for that mathematically.

Online Deuces Wild Strategy #5

Two pairs is a hand you'll never hold. Always discard one of the pairs and draw to the other. It doesn't matter which pair you keep.

Online Deuces Wild Strategy #6

The four of a kind is one of the most important hands in Deuces Wild video poker. The four of a kind counts for 33% of your payback percentage in this game. Try to find a game that offers at least 5 to 1 payouts for four of a kind. You should get a four of a kind once in every fifteen hands or so.

Progressive Deuces Wild Video Poker

Progressive Deuces Wild poker games can be found online, but overall, the payback percentage on these progressive games is far lower than what you'd find with their regular Deuces Wild games. But if going for the really big jackpot is your thing, have fun playing the Deuces Wild progressive video poker games. You don't have to make any significant changes to your playing strategy.

Conclusion

Strategy and payouts for Deuces Wild video poker are really both better than the strategy and payouts for Jacks or Better. Deuces wild strategy, to me, is easier to learn, and the payback percentages for Deuces Wild are usually higher too. It's good to learn Jacks or Better first, because that's the foundation of video poker skill, but Deuces Wild is my preferred game to play.