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Below you’ll find details of the typical odds you’ll find on the ‘Jacks or Better’ Video Poker games offered at online casinos. These are only a guide and an online casino you choose to play might offer machines with other pay schedules that will affect the odds.
When checking out the Video Poker choices at an online casino the thing to be looking for is the payout odds for Full Houses and Flushes. You’ll see from the table below that the higher these odds get the more the House Edge is reduced.
‘House Edge’ (or ‘House Average’) is the ratio of a player’s average loss to the initial bet, and where the game features some requirement of skill, perfect play is assumed. In simple terms it is the degree to which the advertised odds favour the casino, so the lower the House Edge the more the odds offered by the casino match the actual mathematical risk of the bet.
| Full House Odds |
Flush Odds |
House Edge |
| 9 to 1 |
7 to 1 |
-0.7% |
| 9 to 1 |
6 to 1 |
0.5% |
| 8 to 1 |
5 to 1 |
2.7% |
| 7 to 1 |
5 to 1 |
3.7% |
| 6 to 1 |
5 to 1 |
4.8% |
The first entry in the table shows a negative House Edge that suggests the casinos pay out more than they make on Video Poker machines with these advertised payoffs, but don’t forget that in calculating these figures perfect play is assumed. Not all players are expert at Video Poker so online casinos’ can offer these games with such odds reasonably confident that they will not consistently lose money through them! The more skilled you are at Video Poker, the more you’re likely to get close to achieving these kind of favourable odds. |
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