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Make your choice and practice, practice, practice! By John Grochowski PQ: On the full-pay 9/6 version, about 12.9 percent of all hands will result in two pairs, and those hands account for 25.9 percent of our overall return. That stretches your bankroll, while games that pay only 1-for-1 on two pairs, such as Double […]
To hold that kicker or not—that is the question By John Grochowski It’s always tempting to go for the big jackpot, and often in video poker that’s just what we do. We’ll break up a flush, straight or high pair for a one-card draw to a royal flush, tossing away smaller payoffs for a […]
Learn to expect the expected By Henry Tamburin I often use the term expected value (or EV) when I’m writing about the best video poker playing strategies. Even though EV is foreign to most players, smart players know what that term means and how it is determined. EV is a mathematically precise term that […]
The value of using simplified video poker strategy By Jerry “Stickman” Stich Many regular readers of this publication and Strictly Slots are aware of the paybacks of popular video poker games. For example, full-pay Jacks or Better returns 99.54 percent, full-pay Bonus Poker returns 99.16 percent, full-pay Double Bonus Poker returns 100.17 percent, and […]
By Henry Tamburin Spin Poker is a cross between a Triple Play video poker game and a five-reel video slot game. It brings the ‘feel” and “excitement” of playing a slot machine to a video poker game. Below is an image of a Spin Poker screen, consisting of three rows (or lines) and five […]
How to Handle Low Return Video Poker By Jerry “Stickman” Stich It is always great to be able to find high return video poker such as 99.5 percent or more. If players are diligent, they can usually find high paying games in most gambling destinations. It may take a little work and the […]
How “standard deviation” reveals the true odds of scoring a video poker jackpot By Bill Burton Last night I met my friend Rich at a casino. We hadn’t gotten together for a while, so we decided to play video poker so we could talk and catch up on recent events while we played. We’d […]
These games might make your sessions more exciting by Jerry “Stickman” Stich The days when video poker meant only five-card draw poker are long gone. Now there are all sorts of video poker variants clamoring for casino players’ money. This article reviews a couple of these variants that have been around for a while. […]
How to score big payouts while avoiding the pitfalls By Henry Tamburin The larger payoffs come at a price; namely, the payoff for two pair is only even money (or 1 to 1). By transferring some of the game’s payouts from the more frequent two pair to the less frequent four-of-a-kind, it becomes a […]
Single high cards bring more winners, but pairs bring more money By John Grochowski It is true that two-pair hands are the most frequent winners when you start with a low pair. But you also get three of a kind and four of a kind a lot more often starting with a pair rather […]