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Basic winning combinations (Jacks or Better)

Before entering on the area of the different variations of the game it’s important to understand the game winning combinations, in the case of Video Poker all the winning combinations it’s based on the poker hands and on the slot machine randomness.

Winning Combination	Description
Royal Flush	A, K, Q, J, and 10 of the same suit. It’s the highest-paying hand in poker and occurs, on average, once every 40,000 hands. Pays 4,000 or more coins when five coins are bet. Pays only 250 coins for each of 1 to 4 coins bet
Straight Flush	Five consecutive cards in the same suit, for instance 8, 9, 10, J and Q.
Four of a Kind	A hand with four cards of the same value, such as four Nines.
Full House	Three cards of one value, and two cards of another value, like three Fives and two Kings.
Flush	Any five cards of the same suit, in no particular order.
Straight	Any five consecutive cards, such as J, 10, 9, 8 and 7, but not in the same suit.
Three of a Kind	Three cards of the same value, three Sevens for instance.
Two Pair	A hand containing two pairs, such as two Tens and two Aces.

Pair of Jacks or Better	A pair of Jacks, Queens, Kings or Aces makes up the lowest paying hand, (hence the name).

A full pay video poker machine is a game in which offer the typical maximum payback percentage for that game type. Payback percentage expresses the long-term expected value of the player´s wager as a percentage. On the case of the full pay machine the situations is that when a customer have waged for example 100USD on the game, on the long run he will receive the payout percentage. For example if the players gambles 100USD in a machine with a 99.76% payback percentage, he will be receiving back 99.76USD, and expecting to lose 0.24USD.

Jacks or Better is the most common variation of video poker available. Payoffs begin at a pair of jacks or better. Full pay Jacks or better has a theoretical return of 99.5 percent when played with perfect strategy.

All American is a based on Jacks or Better with an increased payout for flushes, straights and straight flushes, but reduced payout for full houses and two pair.

Tens or Better, is a variation of 6/5 Jacks or Better. The minimum paying hand is a pair of tens, rather than a pair of Jacks. Strategy is similar between the two games, in spite of the very different full house and flush payouts.

Deuces Wild, In Deuces Wild, the payout for a four of a kind makes up approximately ⅓ of the payback percentage of the game, and a four of a kind occurs on average approximately every fifteen hands.

Bonus Poker is a video poker based on Jacks or better, the game offers a higher payout percentage on the four of a kind, these game many variations depending on the ranking of the four of kind cards.

Double Bonus, video poker is a variation of Jacks or Better with a bonus payout for four aces. This variation offers up to a theoretical return of 100.2 percent, when played with perfect strategy – however. Double Bonus is a complex game.

Double Double Bonus, video poker is a variation of Jacks or Better which offers bonus payoffs for different four of a kinds Full pay Double Double Bonus can be found with pay schedules that offer up to a theoretical return of 100.1 percent, when played with perfect strategy.

A Low pay video poker machine, constitute any video poker machine that does not use a full pay table. Often times Casinos choose to use modified pay tables which reduce the maximum payout percentage on the machine. This increases the house edge, and thus brings in more revenue for the Casino. Low pay games are usually offered at strip Casinos in Las Vegas and online Casinos.

9/5 Jacks or Better is the most common low pay version of the game. The payout for making a Flush is cut from 6x your bet to 5x your bet, but all other payouts remain the same. This reduces the maximum payout percentage to 98.45% for players betting five coins per hand to receive the Royal Flush bonus.

8/6 Jacks or Better is another often used pay table for Jacks or Better games. The payout for making a Full House is cut from 9x your bet to 8x your bet, while all other payouts remain the same as in a full pay game. This reduces the maximum payout percentage to 98.39% for players betting five coins per hand to receive the Royal Flush bonus.

8/5 Jacks or Better cuts the Full House payout from 9x your bet to 8x your bet, and also cuts the Flush payout from 6x your bet to 5x your bet. All other payouts remain the same as in a full pay game. This reduces the maximum payout percentage to 97.30% for players betting five coins per hand to receive the Royal Flush bonus.

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. All other payouts remain the same as in a full pay game. This reduces the maximum payout percentage to 96.15% for players betting five coins per hand to receive the Royal Flush bonus.

6/5 Jacks or Better cuts the Full House payout from 9x your bet to 6x your bet, and also cuts the Flush payout from 6x your bet to 5x your bet. All other payouts remain the same as in a full pay game. This reduces the maximum payout percentage to 95.00% for players betting five coins per hand to receive the Royal Flush bonus.

Progressive jackpot games

It’s a kind of video poker that accumulate part of the bet placed on the machines and it builds up until its high enough to serve as advertising for the games and when the jackpot is high enough, its released to the machine to so the gambler with the enough look to catch the RNG number required to unleash the pile of cash.