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brings you the game you love, for free, at home. We have a great free
video poker machine to play, and pages and pages of information on how
to improve your video poker skills. Remember, video poker is a game of
skill, don't let anyone ever convince you otherwise.
Being a game of skill, video poker offers the ability to effectively
lower the house edge of the game your playing. In blackjack you lower
the house edge by making correct decisions on your dealt cards, and the
same is true in video poker. If we know the correct (most likely to make
us money) decision for every possible starting hand on the machine we're
playing, then we are getting as much out of the machine as we possibly
can.
If you're new to video poker, you may appreciate a little initiation.
Basically, you're dealing with a machine that offers a five card hand
to you, which you can keep all of, or exchange any number of cards. You
only get to exchange cards once, and your goal is to build a good poker
hand. There are a number of different video poker game variations available,
and each offers slightly different payback opportunities and characteristics.
Each game can be played 'perfectly', meaning that there is a pre-built
decision strategy for each game that will yield the most from your hands
mathematically.
When a game is played perfectly, it will pay back a certain percentage.
This is logically the maximum payback percentage available from the machine.
You will often see references to the payback percentage for a game type,
but be aware that they are referencing the percentage when the game is
played perfectly, unlike a slot machine.
A magic number comes up sometimes in the world of video poker. When the
payback percentage for a machine works out to be more than 100%, it's
worth noting. Effectively these video poker machines have * no house edge
*. If played perfectly they will return more than you put into them, over
the long run (no, not every time we sit down). A positive expectation
game (as it's known) is hard to find, but video poker is the only casino
game that ever offers it, so it's worth looking for.
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