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poker is a casino game that has much in common with slot machines, but
it is a slot machine game combined with the rules of five card draw
poker in a very specific manner. Video poker is often considered by many
experienced gamblers to be vastly superior to slot machines because of
the effect that skilled play has on the potential payback of the
machine. While slot machines are programmed to pay back a certain
percentage of the money that is fed into the machine, video poker pays
back a percentage that can be affected by perfect strategic play.
Video poker games first appeared in the 1970's, but didn't start
enjoying widespread popularity until the 1980's, when slot machine
manufacturer IGT became involved in the production of video poker games.
Many people in casinos who are nervous or intimidated by table games
find video poker to be a lot more "friendly" than blackjack or live
poker. This is probably because video poker combines the strategic
thinking of a table game like blackjack with the solitary playing
experience of a slot machine.
Video poker games are easily played. The player wages 1 or more coins in
order to get dealt five virtual cards on a computer screen. (A smart
player always plays the max bet, usually 5 coins, since the max bet
triggers the bigger payoffs on the higher ranked hands.) The player
chooses which cards to hold and then draws cards to replace his
discarded cards. The final hand pays out based on the payout table for
the particular video game.
Popular video poker games include deuces wild and jacks or better, both
of which are often played either as single hands or in a multi-hand
version, where the player gets to play 3, 5, 10, 50 or even 100 hands of
video poker at the same time.
Depending on the payout schedule for the different poker hands on a
certain machine, the payback percentage on a video poker can be very
good indeed. Jacks or better with a "full pay", or the highest standard
payback schedule, pays back at 99.5% with perfect play. A full pay
deuces wild machine pays back at 100.7% with perfect play. In actual
practice, players who don't play perfectly and make mistakes reduce the
practical payback percentage on those machines by 6% or more, making
video poker one of the most profitable games in the casino, especially
since many video poker players play upwards of 500 hands per hour.
Learning how to play video poker with perfect strategy is not terribly
hard to do. There are numerous video poker strategy guides available for
sale, and Bob Dancer's excellent tutorials and software teach video
poker strategy through a series of both charts and lists of principles
that will work effectively for different learning styles.
Practicing has become much easier also, now that free video poker games
have become so prevalent online. Games like these allow you to play
online with no download and no cost, and they're played using the same
rules as the video poker games found in traditional land-based casinos. |
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