Video poker is a worldwide popular game within casinos, online and offline. Jacks or Better is one of the more popular forms of video poker. This video poker game has payouts that start as low as a pair of Jacks (obviously!) with the payouts increasing as the hand gets larger and better all the way to a royal flush hand, which is the jackpot. If you learn and utilize strategy for Jacks or Better, then you will have a large edge over the machine. However, without having the knowledge of proper strategy, you will realize that the game has a much higher edge over you than you could have anticipated. You can find payout percentages for this game when strategy is used correctly as high as 99%.
As with anything else, it does take time to learn proper strategy. Moreover, it takes practice to put to use correctly. You need to learn how to properly handle each hand that comes you way as there is a large range of hands.
If you are a beginner, you will find some tips below that will help you get started and learn the ropes. Aside from this information, be sure to learn as much as you can about each of the hands that can come up in Jacks or Better video poker and memorize these hands.
To begin, keep any hand that has a payout unless you could have a royal flush in play. The reason for this is simply because the royal flush is a very high paying hand and is well worth the surrender of the smaller payout.
Now, let’s say you are dealt a hand that does not have a listed payout. If you have four cards to either a straight flush or a flush, you should hold. You should hold three cards to a hand of a royal flush or a straight flush as well as any consecutive four card straight. If you have two high cards that are of the same suit or are unsuited, they should be held. If you are dealt a Jack Queen, and King of different suits then hold as well as hold a suited Jack, Queen, King, and Ten. You should hold any pair of low cards, which pertains to a pair of tens or a lower pair, as well as any single high card.
If you don’t see any of the above non-payout scale hands in the game, then you should honestly just draw five brand new cards and see what you get.
The above tips may not seem like much, but they are targeted towards a beginner in Jacks or Better video poker and will enhance the game odds in your favor allowing your current bankroll to last a little bit longer, which means that you will have higher chances of winning the jackpot with a royal flush.
