Rules for Double Joker Video Poker

The game of Double Joker Video Poker is basically five-card draw poker played with a deck of 54 cards, which include the standard 52 cards plus two Jokers.  The Jokers are wild cards, this meaning that they can replace any other cards in order to compose a winning hand. The object of the game is to form the highest possible winning poker hand. All winning hands and their payoffs are listed on the machine and explained below. The deck is reshuffled after each hand.

Bets: Double Joker Video poker is played with 25¢, 50¢, $1 and $5 coins and the bets can be made with one to five coins, that is, you can place bets of  values from 25¢  to $25. Coins of different value cannot be mixed in the same wager. You can choose any coin value by clicking the mouse on the '+' or '-' buttons at the lower right of the screen.  The selected coin is visible between these buttons and its value shown above it.

To place a bet, click on the coin receiver slot on the lower right. You can click once, twice or up to five times, each click adding a new coin to your bet. Alternately, you can also place a bet by clicking on the coin itself. Additionally you can make a one coin bet by clicking on the "Bet One" button, as many times as you wish, up to five times. If you so prefer, you can place a bet of five coins with a single click on the "Bet Max" button. Clicking on the "Repeat" button places a bet equal to the that placed in the last hand.

How to play: To start the game, first make your bet, as explained above, then click on the "DEAL" button, which is activated once a wager is made. The machine deals you five cards. You will have a second round of cards and you form the final poker hand by keeping some of these first five cards and replacing the bad ones with new cards of the second "draw" round. To keep a card you click the mouse on the "HOLD" button below that card or on the card itself. A "Held" mark is shown on the selected cards . Then click again on the "DEAL" button and all the unheld (discarded) cards are replaced by new ones and the final hand is formed. If you succeed making a winning hand, you will see the prize flashing on the screen, while your winnings drop into the coin bucket, and your account is automatically increased by the amount of the prize.

Prizes: Prizes are paid in coins of the same value of the coins wagered and are listed on the machine screen. For the same hand, prizes increase accordingly with the number of coins betted. For example, a natural Royal Flush will win 400 coins of 25¢ value ($100) if the bet was one 25¢ coin, while the same hand would win 3000 chips of 5$ value ($15,000) if the bet was 5 $5 coins.

Winning hands: The winning poker hands, in descending order of rank, are the following:

Hand	Description	Prize
Royal Flush (natural)	A hand containing an Ace, King, Queen, Jack and Ten of the same suit and no Joker.	400
Five of a kind	A hand with any four cards of the same value (i.e. four Jacks or four Fours, etc.) plus one Joker. Also a hand with three cards of the same value plus the two Jokers.	100
Royal Flush (with Joker)	A Royal Flush in which the Joker replaces any of the cards of that hand. Also a Royal Flush in which two cards are replaced by the two Jokers.	50
Straight Flush	A hand containing any five consecutive cards of the same suit (i.e. Eight, Nine, Ten, Jack and Queen of hearts. A Joker can replace any card and two Jokers can replace any two cards.	25
Four of a Kind	A hand with any four cards of the same value (i.e. four Jacks or four Fours, etc.), or three cards of a kind plus one Joker or two cards of a kind plus the two jokers.	8
Full House	A hand containing both a "pair" and a "three of a kind". The Jokers can replace any missing cards.	5
Flush	A hand containing any nonconsecutive five cards of the same suit. (i.e. Three, Four, Seven, Ten and Jack of clubs). The Jokers can replace any of these.	4
Straight	A hand with any five consecutive cards of different suits. If the hand contains an ace, it can be high or low, that is, above the king or below the two. The Jokers can replace any of these.	3
Three of a Kind	A hand with any three cards of the same value (i.e. three Sevens or three Eights, etc.) or a pair plus one Joker or any card plus the two Jokers.	2
Two Pairs	A hand with any two pairs (i.e. two Jacks and two Fives etc.). A "pair" is any two cards of the same value. The Jokers can replace any cards.	1