Video Poker first started be seeing in Casinos in the 70s in a very basic form. It's gaining popularity and maybe, with the advent of the internet you would enjoy this game, from your own home.
A lot of people are confused by -- they think it's similar to slots. In fact, slots is the game where there's no skill involved. There is skill involved in video poker. And a lot of people will claim systems or things like craps and irrelevant and these are all absolute garbage. This is the only machine game in the Casino, where the house has a very, very low edge. And if you know, what you are doing, you can make money at this game in the long run. It's not a system, it's purely mathematics.
There's lots of different types of the game, the original game is called Jack or Better, where it's quite simply you get paid back your bet for a pair of Jacks or Better. Your aim, is to hit king paying hand and the ultimate hand is the royal flush.
The secret, their isn't any secret in this game, is understanding the pay type and we will deal with that in a moment. It's the most fundamental over looked part of this game and more you see many people sitting in the Casino throwing in money down these machines. When in actual fact, they have a little bit of knowledge, they would in fact, come out in front.
It's 9/9 Flush version of Jacks or Better. Basically it's based on five card draw, you are dealt with five cards. You have a choice to either hold or discard the cards in order to get the best hand you can.
In some games it will hold the cards for you. I urge that you don't totally rely on this, because in some obscure hands, the machine can be wrong and it makes you a lazy player, always look at your hand. In that case, we got a nice three of a king. You ask the pay tables to that I was explaining. On Jacks or Better it's fairly straight forward. On a single bet, it goes from one coin, on the Jacks or Better, which is just getting your money back up to 250 points on a Royal flush.
To determine the pay out of the machine, you look at what it pays for a Fullhouse and a Flush, and as you can see here, it's 9 coins for a Fullhouse, 6 for a Flush. That makes it a 9/6 full pay, Jacks or Better machine, and this will pay back 99.5% in the long term, this means probably $100 that you bet in the long run is going to cost you less then 50 cents, if you play mathematically correctly.
One of the fundamentals of this game is that you always play maximum bet. If you look for a Royal Flush, you pay out is 4000 coins. You see many people in casinos sit and play single coin, hit a Royal Flush and get 250 coins, check out the extra pay outs, this is even more important in the bonus type of games.
Pairs are usually always strong across the board in all the video poker games. There are a few exceptions. An example of strong pairs, would be, if you are dealt with a pair of 5s and a 6, 7, 8 of mix suits, many people would hold the 5, 6, 7, 8 hoping for a straight when, in fact, in that situation they should be holding the pair. The fact, is that you have only got one in 99 chances of pulling of the straight. You have got one in 1 in 13.3 of the coin and one in seven of pulling two pair.
Any other situation, if you have got four cards to make a flush, then you will hold those four cards and ignore the pair. These are important things, you can check out the site a little bit further for some of these things. We are going to run through a stimulate in the -- I'll just show a few common mistakes and how you can actually learn to master this game. This is a nice little software, which actually teaches you how to play the various video poker game types. It's available, in the trail version as well. It's very, very handy, because you can set it to alert you to your mistakes and you can mathematically see your errors.
In this hand, for example, we said pairs are always strong. You are going to hold the pair of 10s in this situation. Now, that tells us, we have got a serious error and that will cost your money in the long term. So you have a little option either to analyze the hand. This shows, you should have held the Ace, King, 10 that's the strongest hand. You can also stimulate hands in here.
So this is one situation whereby appear a lot strong the Ace, king, 10 in a powerful situation. Now that was the right play. It's very important to ascertain the correct play. Very few people can play software and even sees an experts can get to 300 hands correct and that should be your aim. You can play 300 hand Jacks or Better, mathematically, correctly ready to move on to other games and play through money. Games range from 1 cent up to 5 dollars. You are always playing max bets. in essence, if you are playing 5 cent game, it'll cost me a 25 cents of hand and ensure, you have an adequate bank roll, don't over do it, it's hard to play this game for long periods of time and maintain absolute concentration. And many people in Casinos will sit for hours on in and do their, money, I wonder why. But again, in the long run, you can get money back on this.
The reason, Casinos offer such a high pay back percentage on these games is that they rely on player ignorance and errors. It is quite a simple game to master. But it takes concentration and some understanding of the fundamentals. So good luck.
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