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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 […]
Triple Double Bonus gives video poker players a very wild ride By John Grochowski I once had a lengthy conversation with a team of casino executives who wanted to get my thoughts on video poker players. They knew that I hear often from video-poker-playing readers, and they knew from their own experiences that it […]
Be wary of changes in your casino’s video poker policies by Henry Tamburin Lately, it seems that some casinos are changing their policy toward video poker players, and this often is not good news for us. I’ll give you a few examples so you will be aware of these revised casino policies. A Mississippi […]
Understanding the differences between these two types of games By Henry Tamburin I’ve received a lot of questions about video poker machines in casinos on Native American reservations. To get the answers on how these machines work, I interviewed Jim Coleman, Senior Product Manager at IGT (a company that manufactures the majority of video […]
When is the right time to switch over to a new video poker machine? By Henry Tamburin One of the most controversial topics amongst video poker players is changing machines. I’m going to throw my two cents into this issue and share with you a slightly different perspective from Frank Kneeland, who is the author […]