Pay Tables Determine Video Poker Pay Back
Wednesday February 11, 2009
A forum member wrote that he heard the video poker machines in New York were set to payback the same percentage as the slot machines. He wanted to know how that could be since they use a 52 card deck.
The simple answer is that they can adjust the payback by changing the pay table. The advantage to playing video over the slot machines is that you can determine the payback of the machine by looking at the pay table. There is no way you can do this with a slot machine. Read more about video poker pay tables.
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Video poker made its entry to the casino in the seventies; and today one of the most popular forms of gambling. For the player who likes a game of skill, a low house edge, the possibility of large wins, and the anonymity of playing alone there is nothing else that can compare to video poker. The rules of video poker are simple; you play 1 to 5 coins, the machine give you five cards, you choose which to hold and which to discard, the machine replaces your discards and pays you off according to the value of your hand.
Video Poker machines in New York are VLTs in disguise… the machines are rigged to payback a result regardless of skill.
For example, in New York State, I was playing a video poker game (deuces wild 1-2-3-4-4-10-15-25-200-1000) with a theoretical return of 99.5%. But it also offered a bonus hand (which you couldn’t draw on) and you win the best hand. Too good to be true. The return would be well over 120%!!!