Video Poker Thrills at Jackpot City Casino

Apart from the online pokies New Zealand players love, Jackpot City Casino’s video poker games selection promises a varied choice of fan-favourites, such as:

• Aces & Faces Level Up Poker: Conquer 4 levels of video poker thrills with up to 8x multiplier rewards.
• Bonus Deuces Wild: With deuces as the wild card, you’re in for pure 5-card draw video poker fun.
• Bonus Poker Deluxe: Played with a 52-card deck, you won’t find jokers or wild cards in the line-up.
• Double Bonus Video Poker: Various 4-of-a-kind combinations spell bonus wins in this release.
• Tens or Better: With winning hands in the higher card range, keep an eye out for tens, royals and Aces.  

Online Video Poker Glossary

• Action: The level of bet/total amount of money wagered during a betting round in video poker.
• Credit: Units of currency available for betting in an online video poker game.
• Discard: The selecting and removing of unwanted cards from the initial hand in video poker.
• Draw: The point when players replace discarded cards with new ones from the deck.
• Hold: Choosing to keep specific cards in the initial hand for the next draw in video poker.
• Face card: Any standard deck card depicting a human face: King, Queen, or Jack.
• Ace-high: A winning hand in video poker where the highest-ranking card is an Ace.
• House edge: The statistical advantage the casino holds over players in online video poker games.
• Max bet: The max amount of credits a player can wager on a single hand in video poker.
• Multi-hand: An online video poker variant allowing players to play multiple hands simultaneously.
• Paytable: A virtual in-game chart displaying the payouts for different video poker hands.
• Pat hand: A complete hand that does not require any further drawing in video poker.
• Payoff: The amount of winnings received by a player for a particular hand.

It’s important to note that online video poker is a simpler game than its table poker counterpart, and that you can empower yourself by knowing which move to use to your advantage:

1. Firstly, remember that you can exchange as many or as few of your original cards as you want to, receiving replacements from the same deck – but, you have to do it all at the same time.
2. You can’t wait to see what happens in online video poker and then raise or fold as you can in table poker or keep hitting as you can with our games of blackjack online.
3. Once you’ve made your decision and any of the video poker cards you chose have been exchanged, the round is over.
4. Take note, you can make use of a video poker strategy guide that shows you exactly which cards to exchange and which to keep. This can help you get better acquainted with what is good in table poker games too.
5. Finally, you’ll be paid out according to how much you put down in the first place, and what is in your final hand.

Video Poker Beginner Tip

A top tip for first-time online video poker players in New Zealand? Practise on a Jacks or Better variant. If your 5-card hand holds just one pair of Jacks (or higher), you win! And with a payout percentage on such a hand at 99.46%, it’s the game of choice for beginners.