Video Poker Games
Video poker games are perfect for gamblers who like to play online. Casino video poker is interesting and gives you a fun mix of draw poker and a slot game. The basic rules of the game are the same are draw poker; however players are playing against the computer and not against other players. The sole aim of the game is to make a winning poker hand. You can place your bet and hit ‘draw or deal’ to be dealt a set of 5 cards. You can choose to keep these cards or have them all replaced. Or you could choose the cards you want to keep by clicking the ‘hold’ button. The other cards will be replaced with new ones.
There are several varieties of video poker, each with their own unique twists.
Some of the popular video poker games are:
Jacks or better: A pair of Jacks or better makes a winning hand. It’s one of the easiest games to play and is the stepping stone to all other online video poker games.
Two very popular video poker games are Deuces Wild and Joker Poker. In these games if you have a 2 or a joker in your hand you can use it as any card and make a winning hand.
Aces and Faces: The game is similar to Jacks or better, except payouts differ when you have pairs of aces or face cards in your hand.
Aces and Eights: Four of a kind of 7’s and 8’s are winning hands
Double Joker poker: The game has 2 jokers which are wild cards
Seven’s Wild: the 7 acts as the wild card and many more.
The standard winning hands in video poker are:
- Jacks or better: A pair of Jacks, Queens, Kings or Aces.
- Two pairs: Two sets of pairs of the same value
- Three of a kind: Three cards of the same value
- Straight: Five cards in sequence but from different suit
- Flush: All five cards in the same suit, but not in sequence
- Full House: Three cards of the same value and a pair of two cards of the same value
- Four of a kind: Four cards of the same value, such as 9Hearts, 9Spades, 9Diamonds, 9Clubs,
- Straight flush: All five cards of the same suit and in sequence, 4Clubs, 5Clubs, 6Clubs, 7Clubs, 8Clubs
- Royal flush: Similar to the straight flush, such as ten, jack, queen, king and ace of the same suit
Video poker games offer progressive jackpots as well. You have to be the maximum number of coins to be eligible for the jackpot just like in slots games.