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Sevens and Joker Wild Video Poker

Last Update: Nov 07, 2010

Sevens and Joker Wild is a video poker game I noticed at the Macau Palace (a.k.a. Floating Casino) in Macau in August 2007. The game uses a 53-card deck, including one joker. As the title says, both sevens are jokers are wild. Either I wrote down the pay table incorrectly, or at 84.3% this is the worst video poker game I've ever seen.

Sevens and Joker Wild
HandPayoffCombinationsProbabilityReturn
Five wilds 1000 219370836 0.000009 0.008919
Natural royal flush 500 469130640 0.000019 0.009537
Natural four sevens 100 4601661996 0.000187 0.018709
Wild royal flush 9 68932355436 0.002803 0.025223
Five of a kind 6 146745618876 0.005966 0.035798
Straight flush 4 113800807140 0.004627 0.018507
Four of a kind 3 2262162460956 0.091973 0.27592
Full house 2 542574436248 0.02206 0.044119
Flush 2 530454264492 0.021567 0.043134
Straight 1 976692503340 0.039710 0.039710
Three of a kind 1 7954695463464 0.323416 0.323416
Nothing 0 11994517447776 0.487664 0
Total 24595865521200 1 0.842991