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Video Joker Poker
The game of Video Joker
Poker is basically five-card draw poker played with a
deck of 53 cards, which include the standard 52 cards plus
one 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: Video poker is played with 25¢,
50¢ and $1 chips. You can choose any chip value by
clicking the left mouse button on the preferred chip in
the lower part of the screen. The selected chip is
illuminated. To make your bet, click on the coin receiver
slot on the lower right. You can click once, twice or
three times, each click adding a new chip to your bet.
The minimum bet is 25¢ (one click with the 25¢ chip
selected). The maximum bet is $3 (three clicks with the
$1 chip selected). Chips 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 the 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
"draw" round. To keep a card you click the
mouse on the "HOLD" button below that card. A
"Held" mark is visible under all the preserved
cards. Then click on the "DRAW" 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.
Sound: The game is loaded in silent
mode. To activate sound, click and depress the small
button with a musical note located at the lower right of
the screen. A second mouse click will release this button
and return to silent mode.
Prizes:Prizes are paid in chips of the
same value of the chips wagered and are listed on the
machine screen. For the same hand, prizes increase
accordingly with the number of chips betted. For example,
a natural Royal Flush will win 500 chips of 25¢ value
($125) if the bet was one 25¢ chip, while the same hand
would win 2000 chips of 1$ value ($2000) if the bet was 3
$1 chips.
Odds:There's an element of skill in
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 poker hands
are the following:
| Hand |
Description
|
| Royal
Flush (natural) |
A hand
containing an Ace, King, Queen, Jack and Ten of
the same suit and no Joker. |
| Five
of a kind |
A hand with
any four cards of the same value (i.e. four Jacks
or four Fours, etc.) plus the Joker. |
| Royal
Flush (with Joker) |
A Royal Flush
in which the Joker replaces any of the cards of
that hand. |
| Straight
Flush |
A hand
containing any five consecutive cards of the same
suit (i.e. Eight, Nine, Ten, Jack and Queen of
hearts. The Joker can replace any card. |
| Four
of a Kind |
A hand with
any four cards of the same value (i.e. four Jacks
or four Fours, etc.), or three of a kind plus the
Joker. |
| Full
House |
A hand
containing both a "pair" and a
"three of a kind". The Joker can
replace any missing card. |
| Flush
|
A hand
containing any nonconsecutive five cards of the
same suit. (i.e. Three, Four, Seven, Ten and Jack
of clubs). The Joker can replace any of these. |
| Straight
|
A hand with
any five consecutive cards of different suits.
The Joker can replace any of these. |
| 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 the
Joker. |
| Two
Pairs |
A hand with
any two pairs (i.e. two Jacks and two Fives
etc.). |
| Kings
or Better |
A hand with a
pair of Kings or Aces or the Joker plus a King or
an Ace. |
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