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Video Poker Instruction - Video Poker Terms, Dictionary - Letters A Thru D
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- Aces & Eights Video Poker - A video poker game where four aces or eights and four sevens receive a bonus payout.
- Aces & Faces Video Poker - A video poker game where four aces or four face cards of the same rank receive a bonus payout.
- Aces with a Kicker - A term used on double double bonus video poker games where four aces with a deuce, three or four has a higher payout
than four aces with any other card.
- All American Video Poker - This type of video poker has a higher payout for a Straight Flush than regular Jacks or Better.
- Average Payback - This is also called the Expected Return or EV. This is the statistic that maps the average amount you win if you play a
hand millions of times. In other words, let's say a Royal flush pays $4000 and one card is drawn to a Four Card Royal Flush.
Your average payback in this situation is $100. The Average Payback is crucial to any hand that you can play more than one way.
Always use the play with the highest Average Payback.
B
- Bet Max - On the Video Poker machine (online or offline), pressing or clicking on this button will automatically bet the maximum amount set by the
machine or computer. See Maximum Credits.
- Bonus Deuces Wild Video Poker - A bonus video poker game where the deuces are wild cards creating additional bonus payouts from regular Deuces Wild
Video Poker. for example, four deuces and an ace, five threes, fours or fives and five sixes through kings.
- Bonus Video Poker - These types of video poker games have larger payouts for bonus hands. Typically, there are larger payouts for hands of higher
value such as a hand with four aces and a smaller than usual payout for a hand with a lower value to compensate in the overall payout percentages.
- Bonus Video Poker Deluxe - A Jacks or Better type game that has a higher payout for a hand with four of a kind.
C
- Cash Out - Each Video Poker machine has a Cash Out Button that drops the accumulated credits into the player's tray. At Internet Casinos, you can
have the money sent electronically to your account thru services such as
Click2Pay, or Citadel.
- Complete Hand - A hand that is defined by all five-card available combinations such as a straight, full house, four of a kind, and a straight flush.
- Comps - This is an abbreviation for the word 'compensation' which are rewards that a casino gives to customers for playing. The casino tracks
your betting and rewards you accordingly. In an offline casino, this can include a free room, free meals, and cash back. In an Internet Casino,
you can cash in points for cash, get free gifts, vacations, etc...
- Credits - The Video Poker Machine or online software keeps track of the amount deposited and accumulated as winnings. These are the credits,
for example, if you deposit $10 in a 25 cent video poker game, you will receive 40 credits.
- Cycle - The mathematical probability of getting any paying hand over a period of time. For instance, a Royal Flush in Jacks or Better 9/6 full
pay should occur once every 40,390.55 hands. Of course, the games are random, so it is possible no have any number of Royal Flushes in a cycle or
none at all. The Poisson Distribution indicates that there is only a 63.2% probability of at least one Royal Flush in one cycle, but this is balanced
by the chances of two or more in one cycle.
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Denomination - The denomination of each card in the deck is its number from two thru ten, Jack, Queen, King or Ace.
- Deuces - A deuce is the number two denomination in a deck of cards.
- Deuces Deluxe Video Poker - This video poker game has bonus payouts for four deuces, natural straight flush, royal flush with a deuce,
five of a kind, wild straight flush and a wild four of a kind.
- Deuces Wild Video Poker - A video poker game where deuces are wild cards (can take any value). There are bonus payouts for four deuces,
a deuces royal, and five of a kind (any four of a kind with a deuce)..
- Deuces & Jokers Wild Video Poker - In this video poker game, deuces and jokers are wild and the payout for 5 wild cards is usually higher
than for a royal flush.
- Discard Buttons - Under the display on the video poker machine are five buttons. Each of the five buttons control one of the cards
displayed on the screen. With these buttons you can discard or hold a particular card.
- Double Bonus Video Poker - This video poker game has bonus payouts for 4 aces, four deuces, threes or fours and four fives through kings.
- Double Double Bonus Video Poker - This video poker game has bonus payouts for 4 aces, four aces with a deuce, two, three or
four kicker, four deuces, threes or fours with an ace through four kicker, four deuces, threes or fours and four fives through kings.
- Double Jackpot Video Poker - This video poker game has bonus payouts for 4 aces, four aces with a king, queen, or jack kicker, four kings, queens,
or jacks with an ace, king, queen, jack kicker and four deuces through tens.
- Double Joker Video Poker - This video poker game has bonus payouts for a wild royal and five of a kind.
- Double Double Jackpot Video Poker - This video poker game has bonus payouts for 4 aces, four aces with a king, queen, or jack kicker,
four kings, queens, or jacks with an ace, king, queen, jack kicker and four deuces through tens. This fame has the same bonus payout hands as for
Double Jackpot, but with variations in the payouts for the bonus hands.
- Draw - The set of replacement cards for those cards not held from the deal hand in video poker.
- Double Up - Some video poker games give you the option to double up on your bet when you get a winning hand. You must then draw a higher
value card against the machine/computer to double your winnings.
- Dueces - This is a common misspelling of Deuces.
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