Video Poker Strategy helps you choose the best cards when playing poker, and increases your odds of winning.
Video Poker is one of the most popular casino games, and understanding the ranking of hands and the basic startegy avoids guessing which cards are best to hold in a given hand. In video poker only 21% of the dealt hands are winners, so you have to make the best out of the remaining 79%.
The strategies shown are based on mathematic calculations, but you don´t have to be a math genious to be able to apply each strategy to your play.
Lets first have a look at the ranking of the hands:
Royal Flush is the highest ranking hand in video poker (Ace, King, Queen, Jack and 10 of the same suit)
Straight Flush consists of 5 cards of the same suit in order (i.e. 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 of spades)
Four of a Kind well the name says it all; 4 cards of the same value and a odd fifth card (i.e. King, King, King, King and 10)
Full House contains 3 cards with same value and 2 cards with same value, but another ranking (i.e. 6, 6, 6, 9 and 9)
Flush is 5 cards in the same suit, but not in order.
Straight is 5 cards in order, but they´re not in the same suit.
Three of a Kind is 3 cards with the same value and 2 odd cards (i.e. 3, 3, 3, Queen, 10)
Two Pairs are i.e. 7, 7, Ace, Ace, King
One Pair is 2 cards of the same value. The lowest winning pairs in video poker are 10´s in "Tens or Better", Jacks in "Jacks or Better" and "Aces and Faces", Kings and Aces in "Joker Poker".
The above ranking of hands of course shows in the following video poker strategy for "Deuces Wild Video Poker" and "Jacks or Better Video Poker", as the payout is depending on your final hand, where a Royal Flush has the biggest payout.
Screenshot of Deuces Wild from Captain Cooks Casino
But let go on with the basic video poker strategies:
Click here for the basic startegy for Deuces Wild >>> Deuces Wild Video Poker Strategy
Or read the startegy for Jacks or Better here >>> Jacks or Better Video Poker Strategy