To provide more detail, here are the approximate return rate and house edges for several popular Video poker variants. As a result, it is the only winning hand other than those with the three smallest prizes to offer a return rate of over 10%. The other major takeaway is despite the fact that its payout ratio is only one less than the other two combined, a Full House is actually more likely than either a Flush or Straight. This means that for every €100 spent on five credit bets, your expected return is approximately €99.54 and for one to four credit bets, it is €98.18. The house edge is lessened when placing five credit bets as Jacks or Better 9/6 pay tables traditionally reward a 4,000 credit ‘jackpot’ for a Royal Flush achieved on a five credit bet, more than tripling the payout ratio. The return rate when placing five credit bets is 99.543% whereas when placing a one to four credit bet it is 98.181%, translating to house edges of 0.457% and 1.819% respectively.

Jacks or Better 9/6 Video poker house edgeĪs you can see from the table above, the approximate probability of getting a winning hand in any given round is 45.456%. Outlined below is a table for the most common Jacks or Better 9/6 pay table, detailing the payout ratio (number of credits won divided by number of credits bet), probability and expected return rate (payout ratio multiplied by probability) for each hand: This table confirms that the holding strategy we determined of holding four cards to the Flush, is the optimal play if dealt these cards.As per any casino game, it is vital to establish the probabilities and house edge involved in Video poker and thus, how they may dictate any relevant strategy. It's an important exercise to enumerate them all because, as we have seen, some of the results are not intuitively obvious.

The optimal holding strategy is to take the action that results in the highest expected return. They are ordered from the top with taking no draws, through drawing 1,2 … 5 cards. Without going through all the manual calculations, here is a table showing all possible 32 holding patterns, and the expected outcomes.

Jacks or better discard hand rules