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Jacks or Better Video Poker
Winning Jacks Or Better hands starting with the lowest:
Pair of Jacks or better / Pair of Jacks, Queens, Kings or Aces
(As the hand name says), returns your stake.
Two Pairs / A hand with Two Pairs (Two Tens and Two Queens for instance), pays double your
stake.
Three of a Kind / Three cards of the same Value (Three Nines for instance), pays triple your
stake.
Straight / Five consecutive cards but not from the same Suit (8, 9, 10, Jack, Queen), pays 3
times your stake.
Flush / Five cards of the same Suit (7, 9, 10, Queen, Ace), they need not to be in particular
order, pays 5 to 6 times your stake.
Full House / Two cards of one Value and Three cards of another Value (Two Sevens, Three
Kings), pays 6 to 9 times your stake.
Four of a Kind / Four cards of the same Value (Four Kings for instance), pays 25 times your
stake.
Straight Flush / Five cards of the same Suit in consecutive order (8, 9, 10, Jack, Queen of
Diamonds), pays 50 times your stake.
Royal Flush / Same as the Straight Flush but highest card must be Ace (10, Jack, Queen, King,
Ace), pays 250 times if you bet from 1 to 4 coins and 4000 times if you make a five coin bet.
Jacks Or Better strategy
Using the following basic Jacks or Better strategy will definitely improve your payouts. Make sure you are calm and relaxed, the machine doesn’t rush and one of the keys of video poker in general and Jacks or Better specifically is to be patient.
We have supplied a list of cards to hold and when to draw.
Scroll down and find the first rule that fits your hand situation.
A general rule is that the only situation in which you would break up a drawn winning hand (Jacks Or Better pair and higher) is when you have a 1 card draw to a Royal flush.
Besides winning poker hands , hold any of the following hands, draw all five cards if you don’t catch any of them.
·Four to a Flush
·Four to a Straight Flush
·Three to a Royal Flush
·Jacks, Queens and Kings of all suits
·Face card and a ten of the same suit
·Open ended straight cards
·Low pairs (under Jack)
·Single high card
·Hold all your 2s.
If you didn’t get dealt any of the above, draw five new cards.
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