Video-Poker is often a casino game of skill – and using the basic combination of betting method and mathematical understanding, is usually beat. Take note of the "pay out schedule" shown on the front of every machine, and appear particularly at the most important information – how much the device will pay for a Full-House vs a Flush.
An advanced electronic-poker player will also realise that a "Jacks-or-Better" device – classed as a 9/6 device for paying out 9 coins: one for every Full House and six: 1 for every Flush, can be beaten using excellent Basic Video Poker Technique. An additional device offering the advanced video-poker player an edge is the 10/6 Deuces Wild machine. These odds have been established as a result of personal computer modelling. For the other machines – even if a gambler plays the Perfect Video-Poker System casino game, he will still not win, though will have fun playing!
You will discover set rules defining Basic Video-Poker Technique whether playing online or in a casino – a lot like the Basic Technique for Twenty-one,
Jacks-or-Better Electronic-Poker Technique
- In any hand with a Jack, unless the hand is already a winner! – four to an open-ended Straight, four to some Flush or 3 to some Straight Flush or Royal Flush – reject all cards only keeping the Jack
- In any hand holding only 1 card Jack or better, keep the individual high card and refuse all other cards and redraw.
- In any hand having one pair lower than Jacks, keep the pair and reject all other cards – unless the hand is four to a Straight or four to some Flush
- In any hand with a 2-pair, preserve both pair and reject the odd-card.
- In any hand holding 3-of-a-kind preserve the 3-of-a-kind and refuse the other 2 cards.
- In any hand holding four into a Straight, hold all 4 Straight cards and re-draw – unless the Straight draw isn’t open-ended and the hand is with a Jack)
- In any hand having 4 with a Flush, maintain the four Flush – unless the hand holds three to the Royal in which case you would draw to the Royal Flush
- In any hand with four-of-a-kind, hold everything since a 1-card draw will not increase the cards.
- In any hand having three to a Royal Flush, refuse everything else and go for that Royal – unless of course the hand is already a Sraight Flush!
Practice these methods while betting – perhaps even use to refer to the Basic Video Poker strategies until they become second nature. Go on …acquire the skill and hit those machines!