Video Poker Games

The purpose of this page is to list the various video poker games available at online casinos. This information is organized by game type and also by online casino software. Almost all video poker variants and video poker variations are available as online video poker games, but different software packages offer different video poker variants.

Jacks or Better Based Video Poker Games

The basic, plain-vanilla video poker game is Jacks or Better. Like a master recipe in a cookbook, Jacks or Better gets new ingredients added to it and renamed to create new video poker game variations. Usually these variations involve changing the payouts for certain hands. Bonus Poker, for example, is just Jacks or Better with a bonus payout for a hand containing four of a kind. Double Bonus Poker is just Bonus Poker with another bonus payout for a hand containing four aces. And of course, Double Double Bonus Poker offers various bonus payouts for various types of four of a kind.

In any of the Bonus Poker variations, the payouts on full houses and flushes are reduced in order to make up for the bonuses. But some Bonus Poker pay tables offer a positive player expectation. Double Double Bonus Poker, with perfect strategy, has a payback percentage of 100.67%.

Another variation of Jacks or Better video poker is called Tens or Better. As you might gather based on the name of the game, instead of having a minimum hand of Jacks or Better to get a payout, the requirement is reduced to having a pair of tens or better to get a payout. Of course, the payouts for full houses and flushes are reduced in order to make up for the advantage of the easier payout on the single pair hands.

Deuces Wild Video Poker Variations

Wild card variations of video poker change the strategy dramatically when compared to a Jacks or Better type video poker game. The most commonly played and popular version of a wild card video poker game is Deuces Wild. In Deuces Wild, all two's are considered "wild", which means they can "stand in" for any other card in the deck in order to make a better poker hand. The payouts start at three of a kind on most wild card video poker games. The strategic differences in these wild card variations of video poker are significant too. We don't cover the differences here, but we do in our video poker strategy section.

Other video poker variants with wild cards include games like Joker Poker (aka Jokers Wild), which offers a deck with jokers included to act as wild cards. Another new and reasonably popular video poker game with wild cards is called Anything's Wild, and like the name indicates, you can choose any card to be a wild card. Video poker games with wild cards generally offer good payouts and are a lot of fun to play.

Bonus Deuces video poker probably also warrants a mention. Like Bonus Poker, Bonus Deuces offers bonus payouts for certain four of a kind hands.

Other Video Poker Games

Some video poker games offer multiple games from the same deal, like Ace Invaders. You get two rows of cards where you play stud poker and can't draw, and a third row of cards that plays like Bonus Poker. Another game with a similar approach is 3 Way Action video poker, which has three stages to each hand and three separate payout tables.

One of our favorite video poker variations is Pickem Poker. This video poker game is super easy to learn to play well, and if you find the right pay table, the payback percentage is 99.95%. In Pickem Poker you get two face up cards on the left side of the screen and two stacks of cards on the right side of the screen. The two stacks of cards on the right have three cards each, and only the face up card is visible to the player. Then you get to pick which of the two stacks you want to keep, the face down cards are turned over, and the machine pays out based on the pay table.

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