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Winning at Video Poker Successfully

Even if video poker machines offer you a 99% long-term payback, this cannot make you a lifetime winner at playing video poker. Because it doesn't mean that the 99% offer will give you back 99 coins for every 100 coins inserted at the video poker machine.

The key word is long-term, meaning thousands of hands in a particular video poker game. And to achieve the advertised 99%, your video poker expertise must be to the highest level and you've got to make the right decision for each video poker hand played.

Most video poker machines today are set to have less than 99% return rate and if you are playing such machines, you will never become a long-term winner at all. You will have a greater success of winning at any video poker game if you know the excellent basic strategies and choose the video poker machine that gives a decent payout.

Listed below are the minimum hand payouts for video poker games that can be used as your reference guide. Avoid playing those video poker games that have lower hand payouts than what is listed here.

Jacks or Better must have an overall rated payout of 99.54% and the payouts for each video poker hand are the following: Royal Flush - 4,000 Straight Flush - 250 Four of a Kind - 125 Full House - 45 Flush - 30 Straight - 20 Three of a Kind - 15 Two Pair - 10 Jack or Better - 5

Deuces Wild must have an overall rated payout of 98.91% and the payouts for each video poker hand are the following: Royal Flush - 4,000 Four Deuces - 1,000 Wild Royal - 125 Five of a Kind - 75 Straight Flush - 45 Four of a Kind - 20 Full House - 20 Flush - 15 Straight - 10 Three of a Kind - 5

In Deuces Wild, if Four of a Kind has a payout of 25 and Full House has a payout of 15, then you were able to find a "full-pay" video poker machine with a returning payout rate of 100.7%. This kind of video poker pay table is very rare even in the casinos of Las Vegas.

Jokers Wild or Joker Poker must have an overall rated payout of 99.07% and the payouts for each video poker hand are the following: Royal Flush - 4,000 Five of a Kind - 1,000 Royal with Joker - 500 Straight Flush - 250 Four of a Kind - 100 Full House - 30 Flush - 30 Straight - 25 Three of a Kind - 10 Two Pair - 5 Kings or Better - 5

If video poker games you find don't have the pay tables as listed above but you still want to play anyway, then the good thing to do is play with a very small amount of bet and hope to win a good payout in a short-term play. Never feed continuously a video poker machine that has a bad pay table for longer periods of time.