Video Poker Tips
Here 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 TipsAll 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.)
Video Poker Tip #2 - Understand Video Poker Pay Tables
The 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 Game
The 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:
* Jacks or Better Video Poker Strategy
* Deuces Wild Video Poker Strategy
* Pickem Poker Video Poker Strategy
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 Club
Casinos 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.)
Conclusion
The 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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