Jacks or Better Video Poker
One of the oldest and most popular video poker games you can play online is Jacks or Better, and having been around for so many years and being readily available at lots of different casino sites you will certainly have no problems finding a casino site at which to play it at.
However, one thing that you do need to be aware of if you are fairly new to playing video poker, is that each variant you can play will have its own unique payout percentage, and often a set of different winning payouts associated with each possible winning hand combination offered on each game.
The Jacks or Better game offered at Playtech’s software powered casino sites has the industry standard pay table attached to it and as such when playing the single hand variant you will find over your long term play, if you use the correct strategy, the expected RTP is a very high and very appealing 99.54%.
Be aware however that when you choose to play the 10 hand or higher multi-hand variant of Jacks or Better at a Playtech powered site then payout percentages decreases to 97.30%, so make sure the single hand variant is the one you make a beeline to and play at any site offering the Playtech’s suite of games!
Playing Jacks or Better
Playtech’s Jacks or Better game is a multi-stake game and as such if you do fancy playing it either as a free to access and no risk game or for real money then you will always be able to configure the coin values to suit your playing style and your bankroll.
So as soon as you have launched the game you should click on the coin value setting box and pick out a coin value that suits you, also you will then be given the option of playing one to five coins per hand dealt out to you.
A quick glance at the pay table will reveal that the jackpot payout awarded for a Royal Flush hand is enhanced in value and by getting dealt out a Royal Flush you are going to receive a boosted payout worth 4,000 coins, so always play five coin hands to take advantage of that much higher winning payout!
Once you are happy with the coin values and number of coins you have chosen simply click onto the Deal button and five randomly selected cards will be drawn out of the single deck of 52 playing cards.
Once dealt out you can then select any of those cards to hold by clicking onto them you are not forced or obligated to have to hold any of them, however the cards you do hold are locked into place and once you click on the Deal button a second time, and the un-held cards are removed and replaced with new ones dealt out of the deck.
If when the additional cards replacing the ones you didn’t hold you have any one of the winning hand combinations listed on the pay table then you will be awarded with the associated winning payout. An optional gamble game is also offered to you once you have formed a winning hand combination on which you can choose to gamble half or all of that winning payouts value.
The gamble game is one on which you have to pick out one of the cards shown on the gamble game screen and hope that when that card is then turned over it is a high valued one than the initial face up card.
You will double the value of the amount of cash you gambled if you do select a higher valued playing card, but just keep in mind that by making an incorrect guess then you will lose what you gambled, so there is a very high element of risk attached to the gamble game!
Where to Play it…
- New customers only
- Minimum deposit £20
- Maximum bonus £200
- Wager 40x before withdrawing
- Game weighting applies, see below table
- Bonus betting limits: Slots - £5 All other games – 10% of bonus amount.
Jacks or Better Strategy
As we have mentioned above you need to concentrate your playing efforts on the single hand variant of Jacks or Better for that games pay table has the highest valued set of payouts attached to it which over time will return a much larger percentage of your stakes as winning payouts.
All video poker games offer something known as an auto hold option setting and by ensuring that setting is in play and activated the game itself will hold the best cards for you automatically from the initial deal.
One final thing to mention is that due to the high risk nature of the optional gamble game you should avoid using the gamble feature, for whilst random in its design if you lose several gamble games on the trot that will affect the RTP for that session in a negative way and will obviously decrease your casino account balance!