Video Poker

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There are some playing tips that will help you to improve your chances of winning at video poker by giving you that extra edge which can make the difference between being up and being down at the end of your session.

It helps enormously to know some of the basic probabilities of certain hands being formed in video poker games so that you are aware of your chances of forming a winning hand from the one you are initially dealt.

You should expect to be dealt Two Pair one hand in every twenty, or 5% of the time. After that, higher winning hands are sparser.

Three of a Kind comes up about one hand in fifty, or more exactly 2.2% of the time.

A Straight will come up about one hand in two hundred and fifty, or 0.4% of the time.

A Flush comes up one hand in about five hundred, or 0.19% of the time.

Four of a Kind appears once every five thousand hands or 0.02% of the time.

A Straight Flush comes up only once every hundred thousand hands, or 0.001% of the time.

If you’re waiting for a Royal Flush to drop into your lap, you might have to play a rather long session, as it comes up only once in every million hands, or 0.0001% of the time.

When faced with these hard statistics it might seem an almost impossible task to come up with anything higher than a flush in any session, but these are statistics for one player playing a single game. In reality, many hundreds of people will also be playing the same game which will effectively reduce these winning chances considerably, although it also spreads the wining hands across more players.

This means that you can never be too sure that you are not the lucky player sitting in front of a particular game just as it is ready to hit its own jackpot!