Best Video Poker Games to Play

When you're in a casino, you won't have to look to hard to find video poker machines. They're right alongside the slot machines. The first thing to do is find a good video poker machine, not one that's hot (paying a lot), but one that has a lower house advantage than other video poker machines. Once you find the ones with the lower house advantage, then you'll hopefully find one that's hot as well.

When looking for a video poker machine with a lower house advantage, look first at each machine's payout table posted above the video screen. Then look at how much a full house pays with one coin and how much a flush pays with one coin. The machines that you want to find will pay nine coins for a full house and six coins for a flush. A machine of this type is called a 9/6 (nine to six) machine.

A 9/6 machine tells you that if you inserted one coin in the machine you'd win nine coins if you got a full house and six coins if you got a flush. For Jacks or Better, this is the best machine to find. You may find machines that pay only 8/5 (eight coins for a full house and five coins for a flush).

Why would you want to play a machine that'll only pay you eight coins for a full house, when the machine right next you pays nine coins for a full house? By finding a 9/6 Jacks or Better video poker machine, you're taking the first step in increasing your chances of winning money playing video poker.

For some of the other video poker machines mentioned earlier (Jokers Wild, Deuces Wild, Bonus Poker), you'll have to look at their payout schedule and compare them with other machines of the same type to find the lower house advantage machines. Just as for the Jacks or Better machines, compare the full house/flush payouts between the two machines.

The three best video poker machines you can play are:

10/7 Double Bonus

9/6 Jacks or Better

Full-Pay Deuces Wild

When you insert the maximum coins and use perfect strategy, these machines will pay out 99.5 percent, 100.2 percent, and 100.8 percent, respectively. Look for these machines and play them.