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Headed to the racino tomorrow night at the girlfriends request. I don't ever play slots or VP, unfortunately there's no poker room or dice tables. Are there any machines I should specifically keep an eye open for? Suggestions?
 

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Look for "double double bonus'. 4 aces and a kicker (2,3, or 4)... pays 2000 units. Therefore... if you have 2 pair and one pair are aces... hold the aces and drop the other pair. Also.. i see some people hold all fave cards off suit. If off suit... just hold the ace. Anf finally... if you get dealt crap with no face cards... hold a 2, 3, or 4. Four 2, 3, or 4's.. pays 400 units and 800 if you pull a kicker
 
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Video Poker can be a great way to kill some time at the casino, because the house edge is so low compared to many other games.

The first thing you have to do is look at the pay tables on the machine. A typical "96" pay table for jacks or better has a very small house edge of .06% (or 99.54% return).
96 means full house pays 9 and flush pays 6. An "85" machine has a house edge of 2.71%.

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Wiz of odds has a list of all the pay tables and their house edges here:
http://wizardofodds.com/games/video-poker/tables/jacks-or-better/

The next thing you want to do is learn basic strategy for VP.

Wiz basic strategy:

http://wizardofodds.com/games/video-poker/strategy/jacks-or-better/9-6/simple/

I used to have his intermediate strategy memorized, when I was playing a lot:
http://wizardofodds.com/games/video-poker/strategy/jacks-or-better/9-6/intermediate/
 

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