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Royal Flush Tips In Online Jacks Or Better

 

Jacks or Better online video poker should always be played with five coins. This is because royal flush with five coins offers a jackpot payout. Straight flush pays 250 coins for 5 coins wagered against 50 coins for 1 coin wagered, which is five times as much. But royal flush pays 4000 coins for 5 coins wagered against 250 coins for 1 coin wagered, which is 16 times as much. Therefore the possibility of getting royal flush should be kept in mind when discarding cards from the dealt hand. There is a flip side to this. The probability of getting a royal flush is extremely low. Hence a balanced approach is required. Jacks or Better optimum strategy in this regard has been perfected based on the mathematical expectations of various options. Some important tips are given below.

Normally all new online video poker players are taught that a paying hand should never be broken. However, there is an exception. When you are dealt four cards to a royal flush with the fifth card giving a straight or a flush or a jacks or better pair, you should break the paying hand discard the fifth card. However, a straight flush should not be broken in the hope of getting a royal flush. In the former cases the incremental gain is worth taking the risk. But in the case of a straight flush the incremental gain is lower and is not worth taking the risk.

The second case study is when you are dealt three cards to a royal flush. In this case if you have a paying hand with the remaining two cards then you should not break the winning combination. Here you should give up the chance of getting a royal flush. In the option cited in the earlier paragraph you needed only one card to get a royal flush, whereas in the current case you need two cards. Getting the required two cards is much more unlikely than getting one required card and therefore you have to be more cautious.

We now look at the options when you do not hold a paying hand. Depending on the card you discard you may get three of a kind or four of a kind or a royal flush. You must then discard so as to try for a royal flush. If you are dealt the queen, jack and ten of hearts, the ten of clubs and the three of diamonds. You should hold the hearts in the hope of getting a royal flush and discard the other two cards.

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