Video Poker (Video Poker)

Video poker - an electronic version of Draw Poker . The name is due to the fact that the main part of the game machine - an electronic screen, which reflects all aspects of the game. Many people like the loneliness of video poker, the ability to concentrate on winning combinations with no distractions and errors that inevitably occur when you play with rivals or dealer. In this game, you should not think about bluffing, betting and temperament of your opponent, the only thing that you decide - replacement cards. As for shuffling and dealing of cards, a slot machine does it quickly and automatically.
Video Poker - the most popular slot machine in a casino, and the gambling halls, because it gives the opportunity to win an experienced player. When using the optimal strategy for some of the gaming machines may return to 102% of the money invested. Yet the majority of the video poker machines return only 95-99,95% of the amount that you have invested in their slot, ie, have an advantage over the player 0.5-5%, also much higher than the winning bid, not only for different gaming machines but also for many other popular casino games.

How does the game

The player puts in a slot gaming machine, one or more tokens. 5 cards open on the screen. By pressing the buttons the player chooses which cards to keep and which to replace. If, after replacement cards comprise any combination specified on board of the gaming machine, the player wins, otherwise loses his bet.
Where to start, if you are playing for the first time?
Learn all combinations of cards in poker . Learn how to determine which slot machines are more profitable for the players. Its memory is not relying, transfer all the tables and strategic recommendations in a notebook, and if during the game you have a problem, use your notes.
Play the simple slot machines such as "Jacks or Better", "Tens or Better". The basic strategy of the game is simple enough - always hold the pair or the other winning combination, in the absence of the current combination of hold 4 cards of the same suit or four cards of consecutive rank; in all other cases, hold one or two high cards or make replacement of all cards. Play the slot machines offering games with cards vaild only after a thorough study of these strategy games.

Types of video poker slot machines

Jacks on the Bat. "Jacks or Better" - the most common video poker slot machine. To win you need a pair of jacks or better combination of cards. Various machines Jacks on Bat have different proposals for the payment of winnings. The most profitable are slot machines that pay for a flush and 6 for the full house 9 credits - such machines are usually returned 99.5% invested your money in them.
Playing Jacks on the Bat, you can expect a fairly smooth game without high wins and losses, without the bright bands of luck and loss, as it usually happens in the joker vaild and dyusez vaild.

TENS of Bat. "Tens and better" - machines like Jacks on the Bat, but the payment of winnings in them begins with a dozen pairs. Typically, these machines are paying less per flush and a full house, Jacks than about Bat, to compensate for the additional chance of winning, derived from a lower initial payout level.
Strategy game of Jacks and Bat Bat TENS of exactly the same, except that in the first game high score card begins with jacks, and in the second dozen.
TENS of the Bat - the very first video poker slot machines, and because of this usually is not always easy to find these machines, offering favorable to the player game. Most devices of this series are in the 99 percent area of payments.

Dzhokers vaild. "Wild Joker" - a game involving one or more wild cards - cards that can replace any other cards to produce different combinations. As the use of wild card is that high card combinations are more common, initial combinations for which there is payment of winnings, are a pair of kings or two pairs.
Strategy dzhokers vaild significantly different from the previous two games, it is more diverse and is considering a fairly large number of possible combinations. Some slot machines dzhokers vaild offer a refund of more than 100%, which means that the player will have an advantage over the casino.

Dyusez vaild. "Deuces Wild" - all of two cards are vaild, that is playing as a wild card.
In dyusez vaild for the return of his initial bet you need at least 3 cards of the same rank, and at least a Straight Flush to get a modest gain. Slot machines of this series have the greatest potential to win - a refund up to 102% and therefore are the most popular among professional players. On these slot machines you will have a very dynamic game in which wide strips alternate with luck as large stripes losses.

Progressive slot machines. It is a certain amount of combined video poker machines in a particular casino (or in a network of several gambling houses), with an ever-increasing amount of payouts for the highest card combination (Royle flush) to play with the maximum bet. The increase of this amount depends on the number of tokens invested in all the advanced machines in the casino. Each badge is taken into account the common computer system and adds a certain percentage to the total jackpot. At the top of progressive machines located digital display, which indicates the amount of the jackpot.
Playing on these machines can bring success, as the amount of payment for a maximum combination of cards is much higher than a fixed amount of conventional slot machines.

How to play

Before the game, special tokens to purchase checkout. Lower the machine in slot one or more tokens. Each additional badge, which you set, increase the amount of possible winnings. The total amount of your bid will be recorded on the digital display indicated by the words "Coins". If you leave the machine in 5 tokens, cards will be automatically distributed. If you bet 4 coins or less, for the continuation of the game and the cards must press the button with the "Deal" sign (on some machines "Draw"). If you omit the crack more than 5 coins, the number of additional chips will be shown on the digital display "Credit". Once on the machine screen will open 5 cards, you must decide which cards to keep and which to replace.
Click on the button with a "Hold" sign to hold your selected card (sometimes this line can be added to the numbers 1 to 5), which are located on the front of the slot machine right under your chosen maps. In this case the inscription "Hold" disappears. If you decide to hold all the cards, you can use only one "Hold all" button with the inscription. Conversely, if you decide to replace all 5 cards, then click on the "Discard all" button.
Once you have made your selection, click on the "Deal" button ( "Draw"). All cards marked with the inscription "Hold", will remain on the screen, and all the rest will be replaced by new ones. Now, if your cards amount to a combination shown in the table slot machine payout, you have won, and the amount of your winnings will be shown on the digital display "Paid". At the same time your winnings will automatically add on to credit money.
To start the next game, you have to put the money back. If you've already invested in a machine more than 5 tokens or previous game won, then the score is "Credit" amount will be specified, which you have for the new game. Then, to put 5 coins, click "Max bet" button and new cards will be distributed automatically. To put 1, 2, 3 or 4 tokens, click on "One bet" appropriate number of times. To draw new cards will need to click on "Deal" ( "Draw") button. Next game process is repeated. To withdraw your money from the gaming machine, click on the "Cash out" button.
Note. Note the paytable at the top of the gaming machine. This table shows the number of coins you return machine, it depends on the size of your bet, and you made up the combination, and the initial rate is not refundable. That is, playing Jacks on the Bat and make a pair of kings, you just get your money back. If in the same game you made Straight, the machine will return to you 4 tokens (one of which - your own rate), and therefore, your real gain is 3 tokens.
Thus, each elementary winning combination in any type of slot machine gives you a return of your bet, and win a real can give only that combination that promises to double or more payouts.

Strategy games on video poker machines

Selecting a slot machine. Different slot machines of the same type have different proposals for the payment of winnings, and therefore may be more or less advantageous for you. Therefore, your first strategic decision to become the choice of this machine, which gives the lowest casino advantage. Below are examples of the best offers for players that you can really find in casinos and gaming halls.

Jacks on the Bat

"9/6 jacks or better" - the common name of all video poker slot machines, with the following specification winnings payments (where 9 - payment of a full house, 6 - payment for a flush).

Casino Advantage 0% (using the optimal strategy).
Most likely, you will be available video poker machines, in which the payment of Royle flush at the maximum rate is not 5000, and 4000, which gives 0.46% casino advantage over the player. If you are not a professional, in all cases, you should select these gaming machines.

"6/5 jacks or better" - the common name of the video poker slot machines, with the following table of winnings payments.

The house edge is 5%. Try to find a better machine for yourself.

"Bonus Poker" - one of the video poker slot machine titles with the following specification winnings payments.

The house edge of 0.83%.

TENS of Bat

"A - 10 shun" - one of the gaming machines names with the following specification winnings payments.

The house edge of 0.86%. One of the best deals in the TENS of Bat.

"The Hang 10" - one of the video poker slot machine titles that have the following table of winnings payments.

The house edge is 5%. This machine offers a good payout for a full house, but the lowest two pairs, which appear more frequently, which significantly reduces the chances of a player in this game.

Dzhokers vaild

"King or better" - the common name of the video poker slot machines, with the following table of winnings payments.

The advantage of the player of 0.65%. Using the optimal strategy and making every time the maximum bet, the player has an advantage over the casino. Theoretically, each time putting $ 5 and has played just 100 games, you win $ 3.

"Two pair or better" - the common name of the video poker slot machines, with the following table of winnings payments.

The house edge of 1.89%.

Dyusez vaild

"Wild party" - one of the video poker slot machine titles that have the following table of winnings payments.

The house edge of 0.93%. In this embodiment, the gaming machine, but four "wild" twos, there is an additional wild card, which gives a chance to the winning player. In addition, there is the payment at the highest combination (four deuces and a joker) is proportional to any number of tokens involved in the game, which is important when you make a minimum bet.

"Wild thing" - one of the video poker slot machine titles that have the following table of winnings payments.

The advantage of the player of 0.76%. Professional players choose this machine.

"Born 2 be wild" - one of the video poker slot machine titles with the following specification winnings payments.

The house edge of 5.65%.

"Wild country" - one of the video poker slot machine titles that have the following table of winnings payments.

The house edge 8.61%.

Setting rates

In most cases, all winnings on the same card combination proportional and only when compiling Royle flush in the game with the maximum bet winnings significantly greater than in games with fewer tokens. Therefore, the general rule for any variety of video poker the following:
Always place the maximum bet !?
It is with this in mind, the right to build most of the strategies for the replacement card. If this rule is neglected? To begin with, that falls Royle flush about once in 40 thousand games. Theoretically, this means that playing on the slot machine, offering one hundred percent money back, and played 39,999 games, each time making the maximum bet, you will lose 5,000 chips and his next game fully recoup them. Doing the minimum bet, you can expect a loss of 1,000 chips and 250 dollar settlement that will bring you a net loss of 750 tokens. The ratio of 750 to 40 tokens lost thousands of games gives 1.9% in favor of the casino. Thus, a win-win machine became unprofitable.
For other machines, promised to pay for Royle flush of 4000 coins, this percentage will be slightly smaller, but still quite noticeable.
If you think that a few random games is simply impossible to make the highest combination, you are mistaken. Chance to get Royle flush in the next game, the one who puts his sole coin, and the one who did it avail tens of thousands of times, it is the same. History knows many examples of beginners luck, and professionals lose. Therefore, no matter to whom you belong, set a maximum bid.

Card replacement strategy

Card replacement strategy is subject to more general rules. If your cards have made a complete combination: Royle Flush, Straight Flush, Straight, flush, full house, the Five of-Kaindy - hold all 5 cards. If you do not have four cards of the same suit, the four consecutive cards, three cards of the same suit and no high cards, replace all 5 cards. When your cards contain just two possible combinations, the play, which has a strong chance.

The strategy of minimum rates

The first rule says video poker that you should always do the maximum bet. Professional player, selecting a certain amount for the game, it is better to play 100 games for 5 coins, knowing that there is no casino advantage than 500 games for one token, when in favor of the casino almost 2%.
The only justification for setting a minimum rate may just be that he lost at least more financially beneficial to you than a possible win. If you decide to play this way, the amended strategy for replacing cards that number will decrease an additional percentage of the casino.
The standard strategy of replacement cards due to the fact that "a single rate gain" by Royle flush has a value of 800 (4000 for 5 coins). In games with a single rate, the figure is 250. Dividing the first number by the second, you will get 3.2 - correction factor for all combinations of initial Royle flush.
Thus, for Jacks game Bat on probability of winning by Royle flush as follows.

The last three positions are less likely to win than to replace all five cards, and therefore can not be taken into account. The main difference is that the 4 Royle flush inferior flush and a full house, and 3 Royle flush steel under 1 high card.
More serious changes must occur in the minimum bid strategies for a vaild card games in which Royle flush has a probability of more frequent. If desired, these corrections can be calculated independently, dividing the probability of winning associated with Royle flush combinations on the coefficient of 3.2.