Video Poker Wagering
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The most common video poker games
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and off, requires you to wager five credits to get the best odds. The big change comes in the royal flush jackpot. Most of the time, drawing a royal with one credit wagered will bring 250 in return. You’ll get 500 for a two-credit wager, 750 for three, and 1,000 for four. That’s all proportional, until you get to a five-credit wager. Then the jackpot goes up to 4,000 coins, an 800-for-1 proposition, for a royal flush.
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Still, the temptation is there for a player to make bets of less than one coin, as with this reader who wrote of her experiences:
I hit a royal flush on a video poker machine. I was thrilled, but now I am lectured from everyone when I tell them I was betting only one quarter at a time. Everyone tells me I should have been betting five coins, and then I’d have won $1,000. I thought my 250 quarters for one coin bet was pretty good, but everyone wants to rain on my parade.
Did I make a mistake?
That, I told her, was an issue between her and her budget. If your bankroll and comfort level with wagering tell you that you should play one coin at a time, then that’s what you should bet. You get a better payback percentage if you bet five coins at a time — that royal would have paid 800-for-1 instead of 250-for-1. I play five coins at a time, and if I can’t afford to do it, I don’t play. But if you’re enjoying your day’s entertainment while settling for the lower percentage, it’s your quarter.
That being said, there is a price for playing fewer coins than the maximum. When we say that 9-6 Jacks or Better is a 99.5 percent game with expert play, well, part of expert play is betting maximum coins. If you bet fewer coins, it’s only a 98.4 percent game.
I would warn anyone against betting four coins at a time. Then, you’re paying most of the price of video poker without getting the best benefit. Look at it this way. If we break 9-6 Jacks or Better down to five one-coin bets, on the first coin we’re getting a 250-for-1 payoff on a royal flush, and our return is 98.4 percent. Same on the second coin, the third and the fourth. But on the fifth coin, our royal pays 3,000-for-1, right?
If we bet four coins, we get only 1,000 back on a royal, but if we bet five, we get 4,000. With that bonus payback in mind, our return on the fifth coin is 106.2 percent.
That’s true on nearly every video poker game. The return on the fifth coin brings back in excess of 100 percent of what we put in. When we stop at four coins, we give away so much return in exchange for so little savings.
Betting one coin at a time may be budget-conscious; betting four is penny-wise and pound-foolish.
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