Video Poker Payback Rates

If you have decided to play Video Poker and are trying to decide which fun Video Poker games you want to play, one of the things that you should pay attention to are the Payback Rates for the different games. All Video Poker games are based mainly on regular Poker rules, however with wilds added and different rules and objects to the different games, the payback rates vary slightly. A payback percentage is based on how much the player can be expected to win or lose when playing a Video Poker game with perfect strategy. This means that if you have no strategy for the game you are playing, your percentage is dropped severely.

Always Play a Full Payback Video Poker Machine

There are many full pay Video Poker machines, however it is in the best interest of the casinos not to tell the players which are the better payback games. In fact, many brick and mortar casinos commonly will put a full payback machine next to other machines with less payback hoping that players do not notice. You do need to keep in mind that even the Video Poker games with the highest payback percentages are usually still under 100% which means that even if you play with perfect strategy, the chance of you coming out ahead in the long run is not likely.

When you are considering different machines and their payback rates, you will find many of them to have around a 99% payback rate. This means that for every $100 dollars that you wager, you will lose $1 if using perfect strategy. You will occasionally, find Video Poker machines with payback rates higher than 99%, but what they don't tell you is that the payback percentage rate is only applicable when betting the max amount of coins. For example, at a full pay Jacks or Better machine, the payback percentage rate when betting 1-4 credits is only 98.4% where as if you are to bet the maximum of 5 coins, the payback percentage is 99.54%. Below are the different payback rates when playing full pay Video Poker machines and betting the maximum amount of credits (5).

  • Jacks or Better - Betting 5 Credits = 99.54% Payback Rate
  • Aces and Eights - Betting 5 Credits = 99.78% Payback Rate
  • Bonus Deuces Wild - Betting 5 Credits = 99.86% Payback Rate
  • Deuces Wild - Betting 5 Credits = 100.76% Payback Rate
  • Double Bonus - Betting 5 Credits = 100.17% Payback Rate
  • Double Double Bonus - Betting 5 Credits = 100.07% Payback Rate
  • Joker Poker - Betting 5 Credits = 100.64% Payback Rate
  • Tens or Better - Betting 5 Credits = 99.14% Payback Rate
     

 

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