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Video Poker TipsHere are some video poker strategy tips to help you get the most gambling value for your money while playing video poker games. The tips below are general video poker tips. We'll launch additional articles with tips for specific video poker games like Jacks or Better and Deuces Wild too. Video Poker Tip #1 - Understand the Difference Between 1 Coin and 5 Coins
Video Poker Tip #2 - Understand Video Poker Pay TablesThe video poker game's pay table is what determines the machine's payout percentage. (That combined with the decisions you make.) A 9/6 Jacks or Better video poker game offers a payout of 99.54% when played with perfect strategy, making it one of the best games in the casino. The 9/6 refers to the payouts for the full house and the flush. A full house pays out at 9 to 1 and the flush pays out at 6 to 1. An 8/5 Jacks or Better video poker game is a lot more common, but the house edge on that game is about 97.5%. While 97.5% is a better payback percentage than most casino games offer, it's five times the house edge that the full pay Jacks or Better game offers. On a full pay Jacks or Better game, you can expect, over time, to lose about 50 cents for every $100 you wager through the machine. On an 8/5 machine, you stand to lose $2.50 for every $100 you wager. That's a significant difference in losses. Video Poker Tip #3 - Learn the Strategy for Each Video Poker GameThe awesome payback percentages you read about on the various video poker games are based on using a close to perfect strategy. Every mistake you make when deciding which cards to keep and which cards to throw away adds to the house edge and subtracts from the payback percentage for the game. 9/6 Jacks or Better pays out 99.54% if you play well, but it might only pay back 96% if you make a lot of mistaken plays. So learning the correct video poker strategy for each game is crucial. Luckily, learning video poker strategy probably isn't as hard as you think. We suggest learning three games' strategies in order:
Once you've learned the basics of the strategy for those games, you'll use similar thought processes to learn the strategies for games like Double Bonus Poker and Anything's Wild video poker. And we recommended learning the Pickem Poker strategy because the payout percentage is so high and the strategy is so easy. Video Poker Tip #4 - Join the Slot ClubCasinos pay slot and video poker players back in the form of points with a slot club membership. Earn enough points, and you can get free meals, show tickets, hotel stays, and even credits to gamble with. These amounts usually translate into 0.1% or so back on the amount of money you wager, but when you're playing a game like Pickem Poker with perfect strategy, that 0.1% makes a negative expectation game into a positive expectation game for the player. (Perfect strategy Pickem Poker has a 99.95% + 0.1% slot club bonus for a 100.05% payback percentage.) ConclusionThe video poker tips in this article all add up to one big strategy - be a knowledgeable player. Joining the slot club, learning video poker strategy, playing max coin, and knowing the differences between pay tables all add up to being a knowledgeable player, and that's the kind of video poker player who earns money, or at least gets a ton of gambling fun and excitement for her money. |
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video poker games offer the option of betting between 1 coin
and 5 coins per hand. All of them have a higher payout on at
least one hand for playing 5 coins. Since much of the
payback percentage for a video poker game comes from hitting
the jackpot (like the royal flush on a Jacks or Better game,
which pays out at 800 to 1), you lose a significant % from
your payback percentage by playing anything less than a full
5 coin bet. (On Jacks or Better, the payout is 200 to 1 on
the royal flush if you don't bet max coin. That's a big
difference from an 800 to 1 payout.)
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