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Video Poker seems to be one of those games that people are a little dubious about until they give it a whirl, and the concept of it being worth it, of being able to gain an advantage is the biggest cause of this dubiousness.

I was recently assured of a way of gaining the advantage in a progressive jackpot video poker game: Of course strategies vary from game to game, particularly between wild and no-wild games. However, on a machine that pays out 8-1 on a full house and 5-1 on a flush, there is, or so I’m assured, a means of gaining the advantage.

First, locate a progressive jackpot machine whose jackpot is greater that the maximum bet x 1750; the reason that this is important is because it is only once the jackpot gets this high that the game is even with the house, therefore if the game isn’t even there is no way of gaining an advantage. Now, in theory, or at least this is what I’ve been told; with each 350 x max bet addition to the jackpot, the players advantage increases by 1%. Therefore if you come across a progressive jackpot with a jackpot 2100 x the maximum bet, you have a 1% advantage; if you find one with a jackpot 2,450 x the maximum bet you have a 2% advantage.

Unfortunately, getting to this stage of play requires a lot of time and a lot of money; more of both than most people have. Therefore short of building up the advantage as suggested above, it might be best to simply be familiar with the frequency of video poker hands, and from that determine the likelihood of gaining an advantage. The following statistics were given to me a by a guy in the industry, who claims they are the average frequency of video poker hands:

A royal flush, which is of course what we all want appears once ever 32, 680 hands; a straight flush every 10, 163 hands; four of a kind every 425 hands; a full house every 87 hands; a flush every 90 hands; a straight every 89 hands; three of a kind every 14 hands; two pair every 8 hands; and a pair every 5 hands. Now, in terms of timing, based on these statistics the average video poker machine will therefore produce a royal flush ever 60 hours of constant rapid play; a straight will appear every 6 hours or so, as will a flush; whilst a 4 of a kind will pop up on a more or less hourly basis.

Therefore the majority of the time the video poker player is playing at a disadvantage, however this will be somewhat compensated for by the more regular smaller hands. Is it possible to manipulate the outcomes, to create an advantage? In all honesty probably not, but isn’t it fun trying?



By: Will Win

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Forget the other hands – fact is: If you don’t get a Royal Flush you will lose on video poker in the long term. Period.

So How do you Increase Your Chances of Hitting the Royal Flush?

Many video poker players ignore the following advice when they play, but it’s the only way to beat a video poker machine. Here are five simple tips to win at video poker.

1. Play the Machines with the Best Payouts

The payouts for all video poker machines are the same except for the payout on the flush, full house or royal flush.

This means playing only the highest paying machines and avoiding the lower ones.

Here is a typical comparison of payouts on a jacks-or-better machine.

Machine Payback Machine Payback with Strategy 9 for a full house 6 for a flush 99.5% 8 for a full house 5 for a flush 97.4% 7 for a full house 5 for a flush 96.3% 6 for a full house 5 for a flush 95.2%

This means that a player, on the 9 / 6 machine, will be winning more for the same hands than other players will.

A 9 / 6 will generally hit the royal flush once for each 40,000 hands.

The 8 / 5 odds are once for each 45,000 hands etc.

You therefore need to play 9 / 6 machines.

2. You Need to Play Maximum Coins.

If you bet five coins, all winning hands are paid out by a factor of five, except for the royal flush. This is a bonus amount designed as an incentive to play five coins.

Any player who plays less than maximum coins will contribute to a Royal Flush that will be won by another player. Make sure your not one of these losers!

3. Play Progressives

It is already obvious that you need to play maximum coins, but you also need to look at the size of the jackpots on several machines and then play the one with the biggest jackpot.

The best video poker games are 9 / 6 machines with BIG jackpots, and they can never be too big!

4. You Need to Play for a Long Time

A player, on the 9 / 6 machine, has odds to 1:40,000 to get a Royal Flush, or equivalent to about 100 hours of play.

You need to keep feeding the machine until you win it, it’s as simple as that.

You will therefore need to finance your play from your own pocket, or by collecting money from the intermediate hands that you do win.

5. You Need to Play With a Strategy.

In video poker, your odds are improved if you play with a strategy – and it’s easy to learn.

The strategy will vary depending on the exact game.

The game you should play should be jacks-or-better and of course; it should be a machine with 9 / 6 payout.



By: Stephen Todd

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Well, Jack and me are still working our way through these bottles. Not so many of them left now, but we’re not worried — the wannabe supplier got the nod so we’ll get more of his good stuff. As you’ll realize, I’m not an outdoor kinda guy ’cept when I tear myself away from the casinos in my yacht and go where the wind wants to go for a week or so. Even then, my satellite system gets me into the online casinos so, when the real and video poker itch gets too much, I can scratch for a while. Even though I’ve never played the game, I’m thinking these articles of mine are a little like a golf course. And this piece about video poker is one of these tricky little par threes that some of you’ll ace with no problems, and others will find a little more trying than usual. I’ve been talking about the size of the bankroll you’d need if you were serious about turning your video poker itch into a professional paying game. Now, we’re gonna keep on thinking about streaks of bad luck in video poker where you never hit a jackpot. Talking probabilities, one way of describing these streaks is using volatility. My daddy usta say volatility means unconditional variance. He was into all these fancy way of saying things. What he meant was that you keep a record of everything that is relevant over time. So, in video poker, we note every flop, what we hold, what we draw and the result. Every observation is given equal weight to produce the standard deviation of the return we expect over a defined period time, e.g. an annualised calculation. This doesn’t work badly for video poker over time, but if you suddenly wanna calculate current volatility, just looking at the most recently observed data, you’re imposing conditions on or weighting the variances. So all your trend analysis gets more like guesswork. A different and perhaps a better way of thinking about this is to define the range of the values from the largest to the smallest. Now when my daddy was schooling me in math, he usta express upper and lower bounds for the volatility as functions of the range r and sample size n. But we’re not talking about some life assurance or stock market risk assessment system where values are going to move in a more predictable narrow-range pattern. Because the video poker machines are driven by a Random Number Generator and there’s independence between each draw, it ain’t never easy to get reliable results outa volatility calculations. But you see people complaining about volatility when they start on about multihand video poker machines. I reckon this is not so much to do with volatility, it’s more to do with the volume of play. Let’s have you sit down at an old-style video poker machine with only one line. Now this is a machine you can play faster. When I was younger, I could hit 600 hands an hour. Some folks say they can hit up to 800 hands an hour and catch a fish this big. But let’s give you a fair speed of 500 hands per hour on a 9-6 Jacks or Better machine for two hours. The standard deviation for 1,000 hands playing one line is sqrt(number of hands * variance), i.e. sqrt(1000*19.510) = 140 bets (rounded up). Now let’s put you on a machine that plays four lines. You beginners’re gonna find these video poker machines slower to play, so let’s say you hit 300 hands per hour for two hours. You’re now playing sqrt(4 * the number of hands * (variance + three linked lines * the covariance)), i.e. sqrt(4*600*(19.510 + 3*1.966)) = sqrt 60,979 = 247 bets (rounded up). So we wanna make a rough approximation of the swings when playing four lines — and that’s about 76% higher than playing the same coins on a single line. So ya gotta risk more capital to work through to the other side of a cold streak. Ya gotta remember that the distribution of results is non-normal for the number of hands you play in a session. There ain’t no way you can use the normal distribution estimate of plus or minus two standard deviations to give 95% confidence of the results. The better way to estimate confidence is within (1 – 1/(# standard deviation)^2), i.e. you expect to be within plus or minus two standard deviations 75% of the time, and within plus or minus 3 standard deviations 88.9%. This has all kinda strained my brain. Don’t usually do much calculating these days so a lot more alcohol’s gonna flow to make me feel better about it all. That’s me done for the day. Catch ya ’round.



By: Elizabeth Tudor

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Like to play video poker machines? Step into any casino in Las Vegas and one thing you will quickly notice is that the casinos spend a lot of layout space on machines. Much of that layout goes to Video Poker. If you have played Video Poker for any amount of time, you know that not all machines where created equal. As the years have gone by, more and more ?specialty? video poker machines have come into being. Today, I am going to share some of my Video Poker tips from WiseBettor.com with you. I hope you will enjoy them.

Tip One: Finding a good machine

Finding a good machine is as simple as looking at the payout schedule. You really want to stay away from specialty pay machines that have larger top payouts, but negate the lower payouts. For example, a machine might pay a little more on four of a kind, but will pay less on two pair, flushes and full houses. Since you will rack up lower scale payouts often, because of the probability of receiving these hands, you want a strong lower scale payout system.

Tip Two: Playing strategy

Learning how to play properly (optimally) is a must. Your playing strategy will, in the end, determine your average return and your final bankroll amount. Knowing what to do in a situation where you have, for example, two Kings, but four to the flush is vital. Do you keep the Kings and the guaranteed money or roll the dice for the harder to hit flush? Playing a good machine with a good strategy will give you a great opportunity to win money over the long run.

Tip Three: It?s random

Over the years, I have watched people play Video Poker in Las Vegas using all sorts of superstitious movements. Some will only use cold coins to play, some will push the buttons extra hard, some will tap the machine with their money before playing and the list goes on and on. Each hand is setup by a RNG (Random Number Generator). The moment you start to play, the hand is set in stone. The machine will randomly select all the cards from a 52-card deck and deal them out.

Tip Four: There?s no memory

This is a big one. Many players believe that if they start to see hands with three of a kind, four to the royal and so forth that the bigger hands are due any moment. This is simply wrong. As explained in tip three, the system uses a RNG to setup the hands. The system has no memory. It does not know that you have not had a full house in 400 hands or that you just received three four of a kind hands in a row. It?s possible to go 100,000 hands without a four of a kind and it?s possible to get ten in a row. The machine does not keep track, because in the end, the numbers work out.

I hope these tips have helped you grow as a Video Poker player. Misconceptions on how the game works can be far more deadly than simply playing wrong. I have watched people spend (and lose) hundreds of dollars on a machine simply because they believed the machine had a memory and was ?due? to hit. Don?t fall into traps like this. Understand that Video Poker is random and needs to be played properly. Now, go have some fun.



By: Jason A. Martin

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Video Poker is a favorite game among online casino goers, and is becoming increasingly so as graphics technology gets better every year. But how to actually win at video poker has been a point of contention among video poker players for as long as the game itself has been around. It seems as though video poker fans just cannot agree on a failsafe strategy that will provide video poker players with a reliable and consistent edge. Well I have been playing video poker for a few years now and while I don’t have the Rosetta stone of video poker strategies I do have some advice on the topic and hopefully you’ll take something useful away from this article.

My first thing to say about video poker is that there are two types of video poker, progressive and non-progressive video poker. Perhaps one reason why video poker has produced so many different playing styles and conflicting strategies over the years is that beginner players and even some mid range players often confuse whether they are playing at a progressive or a non-progressive game, and this has a big affect on what kind of strategy will win you success at a video poker game. There is one strategy that I have been using for years that seems to work. I have used it off and on and have tried, at times, other strategies although there are some other strategies out there that are no doubt good; I find this one works best for me.

The basic video poker progressive strategy I use is not complicated. After I sign into the casino and make a deposit I start my betting very low. I know a lot of video poker players don’t like to bet low because it kind of takes the excitement out of video poker but believe me if you have the patience to use the strategy properly, that low betting will pay off in the long run. The idea here is that by betting low on the first six or seven hands, and then suddenly increasing your bets quickly on the eighth or ninth hand, you will be increasing the chances that when you do increase your bet you will be more likely to get good cards. I have used this same strategy in other games, like slots, as well actually. In essence this strategy could work for any game of chance where repetition plays a big roll. You won’t see a benefit immediately or even in the first hundred hands or so, but if you play say, over a thousand hands you will over the long term see a considerable increase in your winnings at the end of that period.

In progressive video poker this strategy even has more value because as you stall increasing your bets as you play, you are also increasing your chances of getting a royal flush and hitting the jackpot, so if you are willing to pump a few hundred into a video poker machine and really play for a long time, as long as you do not spend more than what the jackpot is, your chances of hitting the jackpot will be relatively higher than if you were just betting randomly in the video poker game or betting on your knowledge of the cards. Actually this is a good point to talk about too. You might be asking how this strategy gels with simply using your knowledge of poker to get ahead in video poker. Well the fact is, it gels quite well but the reality of poker, and more especially video poker, is that no matter how good your poker skills are you often cannot tell what the best decision to do is or what your actual chances are of getting good cards, so in these situations where you use your poker skills and decide that you are uncertain about what to do, you can always fall back on this stall strategy. So I guess the rule would be, use you video poker skills first, and the stall strategy second, when you do not know for sure that you have a good chance of getting good cards, then the stall strategy is a good way to increase your chances.

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