The game of Tens or Better video poker is
basically five-card draw poker played with a standard 52-card
deck with no Joker. 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:
Tens or Better video poker is played with 25¢, 50¢, $1 and
$5 coins. You can choose any coin value by clicking the
left mouse button on the (+) or (-) buttons in the lower right of the
screen. The selected coin value is shown above the coin. To place your
wager, click on the coin or the coin receiver slot on the lower
right, or the "BET ONE" button. You can click up to five times, each
click adding a new coin to your bet. Alternately, you can place your bet
clicking on the "BET MAX", to place a 5-coin bet. Also, the "REPEAT"
button lets you place a bet equal to the previous one. The minimum bet
is 25¢ (one 25¢ coin) and the maximum
is $25 (five $5 coins). Coins
of different value cannot be mixed in the same wager.
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 bet 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
round. To keep a card you click the mouse on the
"HOLD" button below that card. A
"Held" mark is visible over all the preserved
cards. Then click on the "DEAL" button again 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 hearing your winnings drop into the coin bucket,
and your account is automatically increased by the amount
of the prize.
Sound:
The game sounds can be controlled
with the "SOUND" button. When the game starts, sounds may not be active
because sound files download may delay a few seconds. The sound is
active when the "SOUND" button is depressed and illuminated. To deactivate
it, click and release this button. Click on it again to resume playing
sounds.
Music:
You can choose to hear music while
playing the game by depressing or releasing the "MUSIC" button, which is
done by clicking the left mouse button on it. Music volume is lower than
the sounds of the games, so you can hear both. The game starts with the
music turned off. As tune files are lengthy, they take some time to
download, so when you turn it on, a few seconds elapse before the music
begins. Tunes have a duration of about three minutes, and when one is
finished it is replaced by a new one chosen at random. The music is
turned off when the "SOUND" button or the "MUSIC" button is released.
Prizes:
Prizes are paid in coins of the same
value of the coins wagered. For the same hand, prizes
increase accordingly with the number of coins betted. For
example, a Royal Flush will win 800 coins of 25¢ value
($200) if the bet was one 25¢ coin, while the same
hand would win 4000 coins of $5 value ($20,000) if the bet
was 5 $5 coins. The prizes for all the winning hands are shown on the
screen and are also shown in the table below.
Odds:
Odds in draw video poker cannot be
predicted because they depend on the player's actions. There's an element of skill in video
poker: Decisions of which cards to keep must be made
which, unlike 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 all around
the world.
The winning poker hands are the
following:
| Hand |
Description |
Prize |
| Royal Flush |
A hand containing an
Ace, King, Queen, Jack and Ten of the same suit. |
800:1 |
| Straight Flush |
A hand containing any
five consecutive cards of the same suit (i.e.
Eight, Nine, Ten, Jack and Queen of hearts). |
50:1 |
| Four of a Kind |
A hand with any four
cards of the same value (i.e. four Jacks or four
Fours, etc.). |
20:1 |
| Full House |
A hand containing both
a "pair" and a "three of a
kind". |
6:1 |
| Flush |
A hand containing any
nonconsecutive five cards of the same suit. (i.e.
Three, Four, Seven, Ten and Jack of clubs). |
5:1 |
| Straight |
A hand with any five
consecutive cards. |
4:1 |
| Three of a Kind |
A hand with any three
cards of the same value (i.e. three Sevens or
three Eights, etc.). |
3:1 |
| Two Pairs |
A hand with any two
pairs (i.e. two Jacks and two Fives etc.). |
2:1 |
| Tens or Better |
A hand with a pair of
Tens, Jacks, Queens, Kings or Aces. |
1:1 |
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