Standard Jacks or Better Video-Poker Techniques
An advanced video-poker gambler will also realise that a "Jacks-or-Better" device - classed as a 9/6 device for paying out 9 coins: 1 for every Full House and six: one for every Flush, could be beaten using perfect Basic Video-Poker Strategy. An additional machine offering the advanced electronic-poker player an edge is the ten/six Deuces Wild device. These odds have been proven as a result of personal computer modelling. For the other machines - even if a gambler plays the Ideal Electronic-Poker Method casino game, he will still not win, though will have fun playing!
You can find set rules defining Basic Electronic Poker System whether wagering online or in a casino - very much like the Basic Strategy for Black-jack,
Jacks-or-Better Video Poker Strategy
- In any hand with a Jack, unless the hand is already a winner! - 4 to an open-ended Straight, four to some Flush or three to some Straight Flush or Royal Flush - refuse all cards only keeping the Jack
- In any hand with only 1 card Jack or above, keep the individual good card and reject all other cards and redraw.
- In any hand holding one pair less than than Jacks, preserve the pair and refuse all other cards - unless of course the hand is four to a Straight or 4 to some Flush
- In any hand holding a 2-pair, retain both pair and reject the odd-card.
- In any hand having 3-of-a-kind retain the 3-of-a-kind and refuse the other 2 cards.
- In any hand with four into a Straight, preserve all 4 Straight cards and re-draw - unless of course the Straight draw isn't open-ended and the hand is with a Jack)
- In any hand with four with a Flush, keep the 4 Flush - unless of course the hand holds three to the Royal in which case you would draw to the Royal Flush
- In any hand holding 4-of-a-kind, hold almost everything since a one-card draw will not increase the cards.
- In any hand with three to some Royal Flush, reject almost everything else and go for the Royal - unless the hand is already a Sraight Flush!
Practice these strategies whist playing - perhaps even use to refer to the Basic Electronic-Poker strategies until they become second nature. Go on ...obtain the talent and hit those video poker machines!