Video Poker Instruction - Video Poker Terms, Dictionary - Letters E Thru M

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E

• Edge - The advantage in a game based on mathematical expectation. The house edge means the house has the advantage which means a statistical percentage such as 2%. The player's edge means that the player has the statistical advantage. Many land-based and Internet Casinos will post their payback percentages such as 98% payback which is a rough way of saying that the house advantage is 2%. Taking advantage of Internet Casinos' match bonuses and other freebies can tilt the advantage to your favor against the Internet Casino.
• Expected Return - The average amount of money paid backon a particular play for a particular bet. The Expected Return (ER) is the Expected Value of a play multiplied by the amount bet. Most commercially available video poker analysis programs give the ER of each possible play.
• Expected Value - The Expected Value (EV) is the average of all possible outcomes or events for a particular play or game. It's the statistically projected average per unit bet payback for a particular bet.

F

• Flush - A hand that consists of five cards of the same suit.
• Flat Top - A non-progressive video poker machine. The jackpot remains the same and does not increase.
• Four of a Kind - A hand that has four cards of the same denomination. (3 - 3 - 3 - 3 - J)
• Full House - Three of a kind plus a pair. (J - J - J - 7 - 7)
• Full Pay - The best payout schedule offered for a particular video poker game.

G

• Garbage Hand - A bad hand that gives you no winnings. It's always best to discard any garbage hand.
• Gut Shot - Another term for an Inside Straight.

H

• Hand - The five cards that you have as your hand that you see on the screen.
• High Card - A Jack, King, Queen, or Ace. If you are playing 10s or Better Video Poker, then the 10 is also a high card. Wild cards are also considered high cards.
• Hold - The cards you choose to keep before requesting more cards.
• Hopper - The internal tray that holds the video poker machine coins. The hopper electronically counts coins to be paid and releases them into the player's tray. Of course, at Internet Casinos there is no hopper.
• House - The casino either online or offline that runs the games.

I

• Inside Straight - You have four of the cards you need to complete a straight, and the one card you need to complete the straight is in the middle of the run or sequence. For example, if you have 3 - 4 - 6 - 7, you would need a 5 of any suit to complete the straight.
• Inside Straight Flush - The same as an Inside Straight except that all the cards must be of the same suit.

J

• Jackpot - A special bonus paid when you hit the highest hand on a video poker machine or Progressive Jackpot.
• Jacks or Better - This is the original video poker game with a pair of Jacks as the minimum winning hand.
• Joker Poker - A video poker game where the Joker is wild.

K

• Kicker - Term for a card used in the Double Double Bonus Video Poker games. For instance, in Double Double Bonus, a kicker is considered an ace, deuce, three or four, and in Double Double Jackpot a kicker is considered to be a Jack, Queen, King, or Ace.
• Kings or Better - A pair of kings is the minimum winning hand.

L

• Long Run - The point where the machine's total appearance of number values is what probability theory predicts. For a player, the long run is to play often enough that probability would even out the outcomes.
• Loose Deuces Video Poker - A deuces wild game with bonus payouts for four deuces, deuces royal flush with a deuce and five of a kind.
• Louisiana Double Video Poker - Basically, a Jacks or Better video poker game with a 53rd card known as the double card. If the double card is held in a winning hand, the payout for that hand is doubled.

M

• Maximum Average Payback - For a given video poker machine Pay Table, the amount of payback per dollar bet if you play millions of hands on that machine, providing that you play every hand with correct or perfect strategy. This can be expressed as an amount per dollar bet or as a percentage of each dollar bet. This payback usually varies between 92% to 101%.
• Maximum Credits - Every video poker machine has a 'Play Maximum Credits' button. Whether you press the button at a land-based casino or click on the button at an Internet casino makes no difference. When you activate this button, you deal a new hand and bet the maximum amount of credits allowable. Note: If you don't play the maximum credits, you won't qualify for the big jackpots. We always recommend playing the maximum jackpot-qualifying amount of coins.
• Multi-Play - Video poker machines that allow up to ten hands of poker to be played at once.

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