Learning Video Poker

There are a total of 2,598,960 different combinations that can be dealt to you in Video Poker. With the player getting additional cards the odds of the player getting a Royal Flush is about 40,000 hands later, a straight Flush you may get in about 9,000 hands of Video Poker. These results in percentages are about 63 percent in the Royal Flush and 27 percent chance of two or more in that 40,000. It would take about 80 hours or so to reach 40,000 and you would spend a lot of money to get that jackpot, you may spend more in playing the game then what the winnings would be if you really did win.

The Video Poker Machines are indentified by the name of the machine and the payout that machine yields. Some examples of the machines would be 8/5 Jacks or Better or the Jacks or Better 9/6 Machine. No matter what the name of the machine is the payout schedule is the same in all machines, they play the same way and the odds are the same. If you are new to the game of Video Poker, you want to play the machine that has the highest percentage of payouts.

It will tell you on the machine so you won’t have to guess. You may as a new beginner you may be confused by the different machines. For example the 9/6 Jacks are Better Machine or the 8/5 Jacks or Better, what is the difference. The 9/6 machine with the most amount of coins played and the cards being played with a perfect strategy will return a 99.5 percent rate and the 8/5 will only give a return in 97.3 percentage. The small difference between the two will have an effect on your overall win ratio.

The other types of machines will give you these payouts
The 10/7 Double Bonus machine will payout 100.2 percent
The 9/7 Jacks or Better machine will payout 100.7 percent
The 9/6 Jacks or Better machine will payout 99.5 percent
The 8/5 Jacks or Better machines will payout 97.3 percent
The 7/5 Jacks or Better machines will payout 96.3 percent
The 6/5 Jacks or Better machine will payout 95.2 percent.
Now, the odds of the hitting anything with a payout on 5 quarters are as follows
A Royal Flush will payout 4000 quarters but the odds are 1 in 40,390
A Straight Flush will payout 250 quarters but the odds are 1 in 9,148
A Four of a Kind will payout 125 quarters but the odds are 1 in 423
A Full House will payout 45 quarters but the odds are 1 in 86
A Flush will payout 30 quarters but the odds are 1 in 90
A Straight will payout 20 quarters but the odds are 1 in 89
Three of a Kind will payout 15 quarters but the odds are 1 in 13
Two Pair will payout 10 quarters but the odds are 1 in 7
Jacks or Better will payout 5 quarters but the odds are 1 in 4