Free Video Poker Deuces Wild?

What is the best video poker game to play?

Pay Tables – Finally, you want to be familiar with how a pay table for a video poker game works. Even though a game shares a name with another game, the pay table might be different. The differences in the pay tables make a significant difference in the payback percentage.

Here’s an example: A 9/6 Jacks or Better game has a 99.54% payback percentage. The 9/6 in the title of the game refers to the payoff for a full house and a flush. The former pays off at 9 to 1, while the latter pays off at 6 to 1. They don’t list this on the title of the game on the machine, by the way.

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You have to read the pay table. You can compare that to an 8/5 Jacks or Better game, which has a 97.3% payback percentage. The 1 unit difference in payoffs for those 2 hands has a significant effect on your odds. How significant? Think about the average hourly loss on a gambling machine.

1. You calculate this number by multiplying the number of hands per hour you’re playing by the average you’re betting per hand.
2. That’s the total amount of action you’re getting in per hour.
3. Multiply the total hourly action by the house edge, and you get your average expected hourly loss.
4. On a full pay (or 9/6) Jacks or Better game, the house edge is 100% – 99.54%, or 0.46%.

On the 8/5 Jacks or Better game, the house edge is 100% – 97.3%, or 2.7%. If you’re playing for $5 per hand, and you’re playing 600 hands per hour, you’re putting $3000 into action each hour.0.54% of $3000 is $16.20 per hour in expected losses. Keep in mind that this is over the course of tens of thousands of hands.

• In any single hour, you might be doing much better or much worse than this.
• But if you play long enough, your results should come pretty close to resembling this number.2.7% of $3000 is $81 per hour in expected losses.
• That’s 5 times as much money in the casino’s pocket and out of yours.
• So it’s easy to see why you should educate yourself about the various pay tables and their payback percentages.

Luckily, you don’t have to work out the calculations with a pencil and paper every time you play. You can look these numbers up online. In fact, I can give you the 10 best games to look for-which is what the rest of this post is all about. I have multiple reasons for listing Jacks or Better as the #1 video poker game you should play.

1. It’s not because this is the game with the best odds, although if you can find a game with a 9/6 pay table, you are looking at one of the best games in the house.
2. Mostly it’s because Jacks or Better is the foundation upon which knowledge of all other video poker games rests.
3. Jacks or Better is pretty straightforward.

It’s based on 5 card draw. You’re dealt 5 cards, you get to choose which ones to keep and which ones to throw away, and then you get paid off based on the poker hand ranking of your end result. The lowest-paying hand is a pair of jacks or higher. A pair of tens or less doesn’t pay out anything.

1. The highest-paying hand is a royal flush, which pays off at 800 to 1 if you bet 5 coins per hand.
2. If you bet 4 coins or fewer, it only pays out 250 to 1, so always play max coins.) One of the reasons I like this game so much is because it’s also easy to spot the better pay tables.
3. I discussed earlier that game designers and casinos normally only adjust the payoffs on 2 hands for this game-the full house and the flush.

When they pay off at 9 and 6, then you’re looking at a game with a 99.54% payback percentage. Those are some of the best odds in the house. The other thing I like about Jacks or Better is that strategy is more or less straightforward. You can find strategy charts for this game at any number of websites, and it isn’t that hard to learn.

In fact, you can find simplified strategy charts that you can memorize in a few minutes that only give up 0.1% in payback percentage when compared to the complete strategy. And once you know how to play Jacks or Better, almost every other video poker game in the casino becomes easy to learn. The only video poker game I can think of that doesn’t mimic Jacks or Better in almost every particular is Pick’em Poker, which is also called Pick a Pair Poker.

It’s on this list, too, and it’s a simplified version of video poker-more about that later. The 2nd most common video poker variation is Deuces Wild. This game plays almost exactly like Jacks or Better, but there’s one big difference-all the 2s in the deck act as wild cards.

• This means they can stand in for any card you need to fill your hand.
• Since there are 4 of these cards in the deck, the difference in the value of your average final hand is significant.
• Of course, a casino would have to be insane to offer the same pay table for this game that they offer for Jacks or Better.

The odds of getting a pair skyrocket with the addition of the wild cards. And in fact, they offer VERY different pay tables for this game. In Deuces Wild, the lowest-paying hand is a 3 of a kind, in fact. The highest-paying hand is still a royal flush, but Deuces Wild distinguishes between a natural royal flush and a wild royal flush.

A natural royal flush still pays off at 800 to 1, because the odds are still the same. You’ll see a natural royal flush roughly once every 40,000 hands or so. But the other big difference between Deuces Wild and Jacks or Better is how the pay tables are structured. In Deuces Wild, you don’t have just 2 hands with different payoffs to keep up with.

The designers and the casinos change up multiple payoffs on multiple hands, which makes it a little bit harder to choose a pay table. But you can find Deuces Wild games with better payouts than Jacks or Better if you know what to look for. In fact, full pay Deuces Wild offers a payback percentage of 100.76%.

This is called full pay Deuces Wild, and it’s not the easiest game in the world to find. But it’s not extinct or impossible to find, in spite of what some other gambling writers on the Internet might tell you. Your best chance of finding Deuces Wild in its full pay format is to visit some of the casinos on Boulder Highway in Las Vegas.

They cater to video poker players and offer the best pay tables in the industry. But how much of an edge is 0.76%? Could you make a living playing this game? As it turns out, probably not. Here’s why: Remember when I calculated the average hourly loss in the introduction? The math for calculating the average hourly win when you have an edge is the same.

1. In this case, you take the amount of hourly action and multiply it by YOUR edge, in this case, 0.76%.
2. Assuming you can find a game with the right pay table and you can play it with perfect strategy, you might be able to make a little bit of money playing this game.
3. Let’s say you can find a game where you can play for a quarter, or $1.25 per hand.

(You’re betting 5 coins per hand, remember.) That’s $750 in action per hour. You expect to win $5.70 per hour on this game. That’s a far cry from losing an average of $16 per hour, but you’d have a hard time making a living at that wage. We’re talking less than $240 per week if you played for 40 hours per week.

But what if you found a dollar machine, you ask? Couldn’t you make over $20/hour on such a game? I’m confident that a game with this pay table is not going to be available in that denomination. The casinos are too smart for that-even the ones on Boulder Highway. And that’s not a common pay table, even there.

A more common Deuces Wild pay table is called “not so ugly” Deuces Wild. This game has a payback percentage of 99.73%. This is still better than full pay Jacks or Better, but it’s still a long term winner for the casino. Something else to keep in mind about Deuces Wild is that the game has a completely different strategy for playing than Jacks or Better.

• One aspect of this strategy is easy to remember though: Never discard a deuce.
• Another aspect of the correct strategy is this: Never hold 2 pairs.
• I always thought it was funny that Bonus Poker was considered a different game from Jacks or Better.
• The differences are minimal in terms of gameplay.
• It’s still a video poker game with no wild cards.

The lowest-paying hand is still a pair of jacks or better. And it still pays off 800 to 1 for a royal flush. In fact, the only difference between Bonus Poker and Jacks or Better is the payoffs for the 4 of a kind. And depending on the cards making up the 4 of a kind, you might get a much bigger payoff than you’d expect in Jacks or Better.

4 aces pay off at 80 to 1.4 deuces, 3s, or 4s pay off at 40 to 1. All other 4 of a kinds pay off at 25 to 1, just like in Jacks or Better

The payback percentage on a full pay Bonus Poker game is 99.17%. They pay for the bonuses on the 4 of a kind hands by adjusting the payoffs on the full house and the flush, by the way-a full pay Bonus Poker game only pays off at 8 to 1 and 5 to 1 on those hands, respectively.

• If you were paying attention to the section on Jacks or Better, you already know that such a difference in pay tables on Jacks or Better reduces the payback percentage to under 98%.
• You get some of that back with the bonus payouts for the 4 of a kind in this game.
• But this is a more volatile game as a result.

Since the extra percentage points come from the 4 of a kind hands, you won’t see them very often. In fact, you’ll only see 4 aces 00.02% of the time. That’s not very often at all. Still, any game where you can get a payback percentage of 99%+ is worth looking at.

1. In fact, I recommend that you ONLY play video poker games where you can get such a payout.
2. Bonus Poker is one of them.
3. Here’s one other observation about Bonus Poker.
4. It’s a good demonstration of how video poker differs from traditional poker.
5. Here’s why: When you’re looking at a 4 of a kind at a traditional poker table, the higher the rank of the cards, the better the hand.

A 4 of a kind made up of 5s beats a 4 of a kind made up of 4s, for example. But in Bonus Poker, you get paid almost twice as much for a 4 of a kind made up of 4s as you do for a 4 of a kind made up of 5s. Double Bonus Poker, along with Deuces Wild, is your best chance of finding a game where you can get an edge over the house at video poker.

Instead of getting 80 to 1 for 4 aces, you get 160 to 1. Instead of getting 40 to 1 for 4 deuces, 3s, or 4s, you get 80 to 1. Instead of getting 25 to 1 for all other 4 of a kinds, you get 50 to 1.

But full pay Double Bonus Poker has another significant and surprising difference-the payouts for the full house and the flush are even higher than in Jacks or Better. On a full pay Double Bonus Poker game, those hands pay out at 10 to 1 and 7 to 1. How can the casino afford to offer such generous payouts on all these hands? They’ve reduced the payoff for 2 pairs from 2 to 1 to even money.

Since that hand comes up about once in every 8 hands, cutting the payoff for it in half frees up a lot of money to add to those other hands. What does this do to the texture of the game? It makes it even more volatile than Bonus Poker. Like full pay Deuces Wild, Double Bonus Poker is hard to find, and it’s almost impossible to find at higher denominations.

But it’s out there if you look-especially if you look at the casinos on Boulder Highway. Loose Deuces Wild has about as much claim to being a “different” game from Deuces Wild as Bonus Poker does to being a different game from Jacks or Better. The only real difference is the extra payoff amount on the 4 of a kind hand consisting of 2s.

The standard payoff for a 4 of a kind made up of deuces is 200 to 1. In Loose Deuces, it’s 500 to 1. That’s a huge difference, but keep in mind that every time you get something extra from a video poker game, you’re losing something somewhere in order to pay for it. In the most common versions of Loose Deuces, though, the major difference is in the payoff for the straight flush.

In a more-or-less standard Deuces Wild game, that hand pays off at 9 to 1. On most Loose Deuces games, it pays off at 8 to 1. The other thing to keep in mind is that even though a 500 to 1 payoff is great, the odds of getting a 4 of a kind made up of all deuces is relatively small.

1. It’s still about 10 times as likely as a natural royal flush, though.
2. If you can master the correct strategy for this game-which is actually pretty close to the correct strategy for full pay Deuces Wild-you can enjoy a game with a large payback percentage that’s comparable to some of the other positive expectation games on this list.

I’ve seen sites listing pay tables for Loose Deuces Wild games where the expected return was 101.60%, but you’re a lot more likely to find a game with a 100.15% payback percentage or even 99.2%. Any of those games are worth playing-it’s just that some of them are better than others.6.
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How to play Dueces Wild?

How to Play Deuces Wild Video Poker. Deuces Wild video poker is a simple and easy to play game as it plays in more or less the same way as most other video poker variants. A bet is placed at the beginning of a hand and players are dealt five cards. Players may hold all five or discard up to five cards to receive new cards in the quest for a better and winning hand.
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How to play jacks or better video poker?

• Use the Cheat Sheet: The JoB cheat sheet I introduced here is your ultimate tool for winning in this game.
• Only Play Full Pay: For best results with my Jacks or Better video poker strategy,you will need to find full pay machines.
• Keep a Good Bankroll: Like any other gambling game,Jacks or Better requires good bankroll management.

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How to play video poker correctly?

• You decide how much you want to bet and start the hand
• You are dealt five initial random cards
• You choose which ones you want to keep and which to discard
• You click the ‘deal’ button and get new cards instead of those you discarded
• You compare your final hand to the payout table

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