Video Poker Basic
Strategy
So, if you can, learn
how to play solid basic strategy for each game that interests you. Or,
specialize in one particular game and master that one.
If, on the other hand,
you are not interested in memorizing charts and you are relying on luck
to bring you riches, then its best to follow some general guidelines
and cash out when you are ahead of the game.
Heres a good
rule-of-thumb strategy based on the cards that are first dealt to you
on a machine that gives your money back for a high pair (a pair of jacks,
queens, kings, or aces). The suggestions are based on the fact that you
arent dealt any possible higher paying hands. (For example youre
in a no-pair hand you might have four to a Flush, in which case youd
keep the four to a Flush and draw one card.)
1 No pair: Throw them
all away and pray for a better hand.
2 Pair: keep the pair and draw three cards. Dont keep any other
card. In some cases, people think that since a machine pays off for jacks
or better, they should keep a jack or higher with their pair. This doesnt
increase your chances of winning. In fact, it decreases them significantly.
3 High Pair: Keep any pair unless you have three or four cards to a royal
Flush, Straight Flush or any of the top three paying hands listed on your
machine.
4 Two Pair: Hold the two pair and draw one card.
5 Hold any pat hand that doesnt have four cards to a higher payoff
hand. For example, if you have a Straight but four of the cards are of
the same suit, you would throw away the fifth card and hope to complete
the Straight Flush.
6 Dont draw to inside Straights. That is, if you have 4, 5, 7, 8,
K, dont throw away the king and go for the Straight. If you do,
youre hoping for just one particular card (the six) and there are
only four of them in the deck. If you keep the King, you could get anything
from nothing to a pair of kings and up-including the royal Flush!
7 Draw to an open-ended Straight. Open-ended means that you have four
cards in sequence. You might have 4, 5, 6, 7, for example, in which case
a 3 or an 8 will give you a Straight. This makes eight cards working in
your favor. Beware, however that this doesnt work for a Straight
that starts with an ace. A, 2, 3, 4 X is not open ended. Theres
nothing that can fit in front of the ace to make the Straight.
8 Keep three of a Kind and draw two cards.
9 Keep any kind of four-card draw that leads to a high payback (Straight
Flush, royal Flush, five of a Kind).
10 Keep all Flushes and Straights unless the Flush can turn into a royal
Flush.
11 Always hold a full house, five of a Kind, four of a Kind, a Straight
Flush and a royal Flush.
Remember, this is
not perfect strategy; it is a general strategy that will help stretch
your gambling dollar.
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A
dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned. -
Paul Newman, The Color of Money
"You
cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it."-
Albert Einstein
It
is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck. -
Joseph Conrad
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