Play Video Poker Slots - Tips To Win.

Posted:20.12.2009, 01:51

Video Poker slots are slots with skill and give you a better chance of winning
their really fun to play but taken seriously, Video Poker Slots can win you a good sum of money, and you can keep on winning.

Follow the advice below, get some bankroll, use the strategy, invest some time, and you can make some money.

Video Poker Slots follows the same rules as draw poker. However, unlike live table play, your opponent is the computer (program).

To begin, you must make a bet (see the section below). When that is done, you are dealt your first 5 cards. Exactly as in draw poker, you can to take up to five new cards if you wish.

You look at what you have been dealt, and decide what to keep and what to discard.

You can keep the cards you want by just pressing the "hold" button for the corresponding card.

Any card not desired will be "discarded" unless the hold button is pressed in relation to that card.

Next, when you have made your decision of what to keep and what not to keep, you will press the button saying "deal". The discarded cards are replaced by new ones.

In reality, the game is over now, what you have won or haven't is instantly shown.

If you are a winner, and by how much, is easily shown on the pay table. The pay table will be at the front of the machine.

Video Poker Slots Pay Tables

Video poker slots show the return of the game by reading the pay table on the front of the machine.

How?

As an industry standard, the video poker slot games use a program based on the combinations of hands that can be made from a single 52-card deck.

The odds of getting winning hands from these combinations determines the payout. Statistically, there are exactly 2,598,970 possible hands from a 52-card deck.

The computer programs used to control the video poker slots are set to simulate the odds of getting any of these combinations.

As these statistics are a fixed set of possibilities, the casino adjusts the pay tables to gain the odds advantage in their own favor.

However, as you learn to read pay tables, you will be able to confidently select the machine with the best odds of return and success.

Keep in mind that the payouts for most online video poker machines are about the same. You will see differences in a flush, a full house, and the royal flush.

Here is a good example of one pay table from an online Video Poker Slot game Jacks Or Better.

Payback Machine Payback with Strategy

9 for a full house 6 for a flush 99.4% 8 for a full house 5 for a flush 97.5% 7 for a full house 5 for a flush 96.4% 6 for a full house 5 for a flush 95.3%

You can see from the above that a 9 / 6 (as above) will see a royal flush once for each 40,000 hands. On the 8 / 5 odds will be seen once in every 45,000 hands.

SO play the 9 / 6 machines only, if you can as your odds of winning are much higher.

Strategy

There is a strategy that's best for each video poker game and this is soon committed to memory. Until you do there are plenty of strategy cards you can download free from the net, which you can refer to until then.

How to Bet on Video Poker Slots

If you really want to win, you will have to bet correctly.

You should know that by betting all five coins (in the slot possibilities), then all the winning hands are paid out by a factor of five (except for the royal flush).

This is the casino's way of making it attractive to bet all five possible coins.

...and if you play less than the five coins, all you will be doing is adding your money to the royal flush prize!

As you need the Royal Flush to win at video poker you need to play max coins.

Take your Time!

Don't hurry when you play Video Poker Slots.

You certainly wont win any more money if you don't, and you may lose a lot of money if you do. Sit back, and enjoy the game.

You will see you can enjoy it and rake in some cash as well.

Video poker slots are fun, visually great and the chance that you can uise some skill to win means your odds are far bbetter than in normal slots and they bridge the gap between pure games of chance and more intimidating table games such as poker or blackjack.

Try playing video poker slots and see how much fun they can be.

Posted:29.06.2010, 02:09

If you work on developing your videopoker skills and a winning strategy then you will protect your bankroll and survive the tougher times. Whatever you do, don’t go changing your strategy.

Posted:20.04.2012, 14:57

Thanks for the tips.. I play alot of video poker & I do pretty good. Have hit the natural royal flush a number of times for $1,000 cash!!.. You are correct..TAKE YOUR TIME & dont change your strategy..GOOD LUCK!

Posted:13.07.2012, 05:26

"Take your Time!

Don't hurry when you play Video Poker Slots.

(...) Sit back, and enjoy the game."

I like your tips. We should enjoy playing poker and any other game. It's a great pastime. Money is not the most important for me. Of course it's a great feeling when I win, but I play for fun, not to win a lot of money.

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Posted:31.10.2013, 04:50

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Posted:17.09.2015, 06:27

Thanks for your tips. You are so right, players must stick to their own strategies and have some patience while betting, sooner or later the success comes to their path. I had a very bad experience in video poker but still I keep on fighting and hoping to win with the best output.

Posted:19.08.2019, 13:42

A few of my friends have been playing poker online and have been trying to get me to play. The downside is I have a basic idea how to play but dont have any skills to ever win on my own even at micro stakes. I have played a little preferring tournament type games.

I could do with a few recommendations on books to read or even which author/players have the best books to read.