That beautiful Royal Flush!
Straight Flush
Four of a Kind
Full House
Flush
Straight
Three of a kind
Two pair
One pair of jacks or better
Lets begin your basic Video Poker Education.
The two techniques that are mandatory to becoming an educated and prepared video poker player are:
1) how to read a pay schedule with additional education to know the difference between short/partial pay and full-pay versions, plus
2) strategies for all the VP types/games.
Pay Schedules:
In a grouping of video poker machines, known as banks or carousels, all of which may look exactly the same, casinos will often mix-in several VP machines with inferior pay programs (short/partial pay). Often, in a bank of regular non-progressive, non-bonus VP machines, only 1 or 2 may be the Jacks or better 9/6 (nine coins for a full house, and 6 coins for a flush), while the rest are 8/5, 7/5, or even worse, 6/5.
This means that one player, on the 9/6 machine, will be winning more for the same hands than the other players.
If you bet 5 coins, all winning hands are paid out multiplied by a factor of five,...