Playing online video poker
Video Poker is a poker-type game that is based on classic 5-card draw poker, and realistically simulates the way you would play this 5-card draw poker at a land-based casino.
How do I start?
Place your bet and press the Deal button to draw cards. You have the option of exchanging one or more of your cards for new cards from the deck. For example, if you discard two cards from your hand, you can then draw two new cards. Your hand will then be evaluated and you will receive your winnings according to the payout schedule.
The History of Video Poker
This kind of poker was popularized in the 1970s when it became viable to manufacture console-like computers with television monitors. The big advantage of video poker is that you can play at your own pace, whenever you want, without needing other players.
Types of video poker
Types of video poker you can play at Royal Vegas Canada are:
- All American
- Jacks or Better
- Deuces Wild
- Bonus Poker
- Double Bonus
- Double Double Bonus
Video Poker Strategies: The Basics
Learn the basic rules of poker and poker hands, then practice as much as you can. There are hundreds of different strategies to learn about, but practice will help you to learn exactly which strategy suits you.
Video Poker Hands
These include (in the order of most valuable hands to least valuable hands):
- Royal flush: Ten, Jack, Queen, King and Ace in the same suit (this can lead to winning a massive jackpot)
- Straight flush: 5 cards of the same suit in numerical order
- Four of a kind: 4 cards of the same rank
- Full house: 3 cards of the same rank and 2 different cards of the same rank
- Flush: 5 cards of the same suit
- Straight: 5 cards of different suits in numerical order
- Three of a kind: 3 cards of the same rank
- Two pairs: 2 cards of the same rank and 2 different cards of the same rank
- Single pair: 2 cards of the same rank
Other casino games available at Royal Vegas include: