Here you can learn to speak the language, and find
out the meaning of various video poker terms:
Aces with a Kicker
A term used on double double bonus video poker games
where four aces with a two (deuce), three or four has
a higher payout than four aces with any other card.
See also Kicker
Average Payback
For a given hand, the average amount you win if you
play that hand millions of times.
Cash Out
Each Video Poker machine has a Cash Out button that
drops the accumulated credits into the player's tray.
Credits
The Video Poker Machine keeps track of the coins deposited
and accumulated as winnings. These are shown on the
credit meter. For example, if you deposit $10 in a 25
cent machine, you will receive 40 credits.
Deuces
Deuces are the 2's in a deck of cards.
Deuces Wild Video Poker
A Video Poker Game where deuces (2's) are wild cards.
Bonus payouts for four deuces, a deuces royal and five
of a kind (any four of a kind with a deuce) are commonplace.
Discard Buttons
Under the display on the video poker machine are five
buttons, one for each card. You press these buttons
to indicate which cards you want to hold and which you
want to discard.
Draw
In video poker the draw is a set of replacement cards
for those cards not held from the deal hand.
Double Up
Some video poker games give the option to double up
the bet on a winning hand. The object is to draw a higher
value card against the machine to double your winnings.
Expected Return
The average amount of money paid back on a particular
play for a particular bet.
Flat Top
A video poker machine that does not have a Progressive
Jackpot. So the Jackpot amount remains the same.
Full Pay
The best payout schedule offered for a particular game.
For example, 9/6 Jacks or Better as opposed to 8/6 Jacks
or Better, and any game with a full pay schedule plus
a progressive jackpot. A video poker machine where the
Maximum Average Payback is near 100%. For example, a
Full Pay Jacks or Better machine has a Maximum Average
Payback of about 99.5%, and a Full Pay Deuces Wild machine
has a maximum average payback of about 100.7%
Hold
The cards you decide to keep in any given hand.
Jackpot
A special bonus paid when you hit the highest hand on
a video poker machine such as a Royal Flush or a Progressive
Jackpot
Jacks or Better
Jacks or better is the original video poker game, with
a Pair of Jacks as the minimum winning hand. The Full
Pay version of Jacks or Better pays 9 credits for a
Full House and 6 credits for a Flush on a single coin
bet (9/6). Jacks or Better has a Maximum Average Payback
of about 99.5%
Maximum Credits
Each Video Poker Machine has a Play Maximum Credits
or Bet Max button. This is the button you push to deal
a new hand and bet the maximum amount of credits allowable.
Payout Schedule
Each video poker machine's complete payoff schedule
is posted on the glass front or on the screen.
Payout Table
The numbers are the number of credits that you get if
you draw that hand. Usually you get more credits for
your money by playing the Maximum Credits.
Payout
The actual dropping of coins by a machine. The actual
payout occurs only when cashing out. In the case of
a coinless machine, it is the printing of a cash voucher.
In the case of a jackpot, it is usually a hand pay.
Progressive Jackpot
This is a Jackpot, usually for a Royal Flush that grows
as players play. Several machines are linked together
so that each bet at any of them increases the jackpot.
Random Number Generator
An algorithm or a program used to generate a series
of random numbers. Online video poker uses random number
generators.
Royal Flush
A hand containing and Ten, Jack, Queen, King, Ace in
the same suit, in any order. The highest hand in video
poker using no wild cards.
Strategy Card
A Strategy Card is a Strategy Table printed on a card.
It's a good idea to have a strategy card with you while
playing.
Video Poker Machine
The use of a video display to simulate the real game
of poker, bearing in mind one is playing a machine and
not real players.
Wild or Wild Card
A card that may be used to substitute for any other
card in the deck, such as a deuce in Deuces Wild Video
Poker.
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