Rules for Deuces Wild Video Poker

What the game is

The game of Deuces Wild Video Poker is a five-card draw poker played with one standard poker deck of 52 cards, which is reshuffled at the beginning of each hand. Cards are dealt in two rounds. In the first round, the machine deals you five cards, then you select what cards to keep for the final hand and what cards to discard. You can discard or keep up to the five cards. Once selected what cards to keep or "hold", comes the second round in which you draw from the deck as many cards as discarded, and the new cards are combined with the held ones to form the final hand. If the this final hand is a winning one, it is awarded a prize according to the table below.

The Four Deuces Are Wildcards

This is to say that a deuce can be used as if it were any other card that better suits the hand. Any number of deuces in the same hand are valid. As a consequence, high ranking poker hands are much more frequent than in plain poker.

Object of the Game

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.

Bets

Deuces Wild Video Poker is played with 25¢, 50¢ and $1 chips (coins). You can bet any number of coins between one and five. Chips of different value cannot be mixed in the same wager.

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 ($125) if the bet was one 25¢ coin, while the same hand would win 5000 coins of 1$ value ($5000) if the bet was five $1 coins.

How to play

To learn how to play the game, please click on How to Play.

Odds

There's an element of skill in draw video poker: Decisions of which cards to keep must be made which, unlike other slot machines, will determine whether and how much you can win. The poker machines at the 4 Jacks Casino conform to the rules and payoff regulations found in Las Vegas and casinos around the world.

The Winning Hands

The winning hands in Deuces Wild Video Poker and their payoffs are the following:

Hand	Description	Payoff
Royal Flush (natural)	A hand containing an Ace, King, Queen, Jack and Ten of the same suit and no deuces.	400:1
Four Deuces	A hand containing the four deuces and any other card.	200:1
Royal Flush (with Deuces)	A Royal Flush in which one or more deuces replace some of the cards of that hand.	25:1
Five of a kind	A hand with any five cards of the same value (i.e. five Jacks or five Fours, etc.). As there are only four cards of the same value, this hand needs at least one and up to three deuces.	16:1
Straight Flush	A hand containing any five consecutive cards of the same suit (i.e. Eight, Nine, Ten, Jack and Queen of hearts. Deuces can replace any cards.	13:1
Four of a Kind	A hand with any four cards of the same value (i.e. four Jacks or four Fours, etc.). Up to three deuces can be contained in this hand.	4:1
Full House	A hand containing both a "pair" and a "three of a kind". A deuce can replace any missing card.	3:1
Flush	A hand containing any nonconsecutive five cards of the same suit. (i.e. Three, Four, Seven, Ten and Jack of clubs). Deuces can replace any of these.	2:1
Straight	A hand with any five consecutive cards of different suits. Deuces can replace any of these.	2:1
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 a deuce or two deuces plus three other non matching cards.	1:1