Video Poker Variants

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Many respectable online casinos have made available many variants of Video Poker. These variants give the player more challenges and exciting game play that makes Video Poker the great game it is.

To help you with the descriptions below, you can follow the link to Video Poker terms which describes some terminology used in video poker.

All the variants below allow for the double-up option.

Aces and Faces

This format of Video Poker uses no wild cards and uses one 52 card deck and rewards high payouts for poker hands with 4 aces or 4 of the same type face cards. The minimum hand that starts paying out is from a pair of Jacks.

Tens or Better

This format uses no wild cards and uses one 52 card deck. The minimum hand that starts paying out is from a pair of Tens.

Deuces and Joker

This online video poker variant uses a 53 card deck. It uses 5 wildcards, 4 being deuces and 1 being the joker card. The minimum hand that starts paying out is from 3 of a kind.

Louisiana Double

This version of the video poker game uses a 53 card deck. The extra ...
... card is the double card. The minimum hand that starts paying out is from a pair of Jacks.

Jacks or Better

This is the standard online video poker game. It plays with one 52 card deck and it starts paying out from a pair of Jacks or better.

Double Joker

Double Joker video poker uses one 54 card deck. The extra cards are 2 Jokers which are used as wildcards. Payout starts from 2 pairs and above.

Deuces Wild

In this version of video poker the standard 52 card deck is used, but the 4 deuces are considered wildcards in this game. The minimum payout starts with hands of 3 of a kind or higher.

Joker

This version of the video poker game uses a 53 card deck. The extra card is a Joker wildcard. The minimum hand that starts paying out is from a pair of Kings.

Each of the above versions of online video poker are also available in a format called Power Poker. Power Poker uses the same rules as other normal Video Poker games, with one exception being that a player can play up to 4 hands at once. The cards the player chooses to keep are kept in the second to fourth hands as well. For example, if in the player's first hand he keeps the King of Hearts and the Ace of Hearts, the second to fourth hands will also contain the King of Hearts and the Ace of Hearts. When he decides to replace the discarded cards, each hand is replaced with cards from a separate deck.

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