Video Poker Strategy Cards

The strategy cards presented on this website are aimed at maximizing your hands to receive an expected return percentage over long term play, this is the Video Poker basic strategy. The Strategy Cards on this site are based on the following assumtions:

• They assume you are playing with the full bet, usually 5 coins,and include the bonus for a royal flush.An example of this is if you're playing Jacks or Better its common for the Royal Flush to pay 250 coins plus a bonus of 4000 coins.
• Are based on Full Pay Video Poker Games.

  Strategy cards are basically a list of possible hands with their rank and to use a strategy card is easy, if the hand you are delt is not on the card you redraw. In the Jacks or Better Strategy Card below high Cards are Jacks or Better and Tens or Lower are Low Cards.

  Jacks or Better Strategy Card
  Initial Hand	Rank
  Royal Flush, Straight Flush, Four of a Kind	1
  4 to a Royal Flush	2
  Full House, Flush, Straight, Three of a Kind	3
  4 to a Straight Flush (open)	4
  Two Pair	5
  High Pair (Jacks or Better)	6
  3 to a Royal Flush	7
  4 to a Flush	8
  TJQK	9
  Low Pair (10's or Lower)	10
  89TJ, 9TJQ	11
  9TJs, 9JQs	12
  4 to a Straight (open)	13
  8JQs	14
  3 to a Straight Flush - open	15
  9TQs, 8TJs, 89Js, 9QKs, 9JKs	16
  QJs	17
  JQKA	18
  KQs, KJs, AKs, AQs, AJs	19
  4 to a Straight - inside, 3 high cards	20
  3 to a Straight Flush - inside, 2 gaps, 1 high card	21
  3 to a Straight Flush - inside, 1 gap, 0 high cards	22
  JQK	23
  QJ	24
  JTs	25
  KQ, KJ	26
  QTs	27
  AK, AQ, AJ	28
  KTs	29
  High Card	30
  3 to a Straight Flush - inside, 2 gaps, 0 high cards	31
  Redraw	32

  So If you were delt a Jack, Queen, King, Ace of different suites you would look down the above table and would find your hand at 18th position and would play for the straight as non of the hands above on the table match your cards. If you look down the table and non of the cards match your hand then you Redraw.

  To Learn more about Jacks or Better click here.

  Deuces Wild Strategy Card Click here

  Joker Poker Strategy Card Click here

  We also suggest you read about other strategies in books, we suggest you consider the books listed on our Video Poker books page.

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