♠The Wizard of Odds - Video Poker Tables

Following are a list of video poker tables and their associated expected return, assuming optimal player strategy. This page is somewhat out of date and is no longer maintained. For complete probability tables click here.

Jacks or Better

Royal flush	940	800	800	800	800	800	800	800
Straight flush	50	50	50	40	50	50	50	50
4 of a kind	25	25	80	20	80	25	80	25
Full house	9	9	8	9	8	8	7	7
Flush	6	6	6	6	5	5	5	5
Straight	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4
3 of a kind	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
2 pair	2	2	1	2	1	2	1	2
Jacks/bet.	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Return	99.9%	99.54%	98.49%	98.25%	97.4%	97.3%	96.25%	96.15%

Royal flush	1000	1000	800
Straight flush	50	50	50
4 of a kind	25	20	25
Full house	6	7	6
Flush	5	5	5
Straight	4	4	4
3 of a kind	3	3	3
2 pair	2	2	2
Jacks/bet.	1	1	1
Return	95.51%	95.48%	95.00%

Deuces Wild

Natural royal	800	800	800	800	800	800
4 deuces	200	200	400	500	200	200
Wild royal	25	25	25	25	20	25
5 of a kind	15	16	16	12	12	15
Straight flush	9	10	11	8	9	9
4 of a kind	5	4	4	4	5	4
Full house	3	4	3	3	3	4
Flush	2	3	2	2	2	3
Straight	2	2	2	2	2	2
3 of a kind	1	1	1	1	1	1
Return	100.76%	99.73%	99.62%	99.2%	98.94%	98.91%

Natural royal	800	800	800	800	800	800
4 deuces	200	200	200	200	200	200
Wild royal	25	20	25	20	25	25
5 of a kind	16	15	16	10	15	15
Straight flush	13	9	13	8	10	9
4 of a kind	4	4	4	4	4	4
Full house	3	4	3	4	3	3
Flush	2	3	2	3	2	2
Straight	2	2	2	2	2	2
3 of a kind	1	1	1	1	1	1
Return	96.73%	97.97%	96.77%	95.96%	94.82%	94.34%

Natural royal	800
4 deuces	200
Wild royal	20
5 of a kind	12
Straight flush	9
4 of a kind	4
Full house	4
Flush	3
Straight	2
3 of a kind	1
Return	97.06%

Loose Deuces

Natural royal	800	800
4 deuces	500	500
Wild royal	25	25
5 of a kind	15	15
Straight flush	8	5
4 of a kind	4	4
Full house	3	3
Flush	2	2
Straight	2	2
3 of a kind	1	1
Return	100.15%	99.07%

Joker Wild

Royal flush	800	1000	800	800	800	800
5 of a kind	200	100	200	200	200	200
Wild royal	100	50	100	100	100	100
Straight flush	50	50	50	50	50	50
4 of a kind	20	20	20	17	15	20
Full house	7	8	6	7	8	6
Flush	5	7	5	5	5	4
Straight	3	5	3	3	3	3
3 of a kind	2	2	2	2	2	2
2 Pair	1	1	1	1	1	1
Kings/bet.	1	0	1	1	1	1
Return	100.65%	99.08%	99.08%	98.09%	97.95%	97.58%

Royal flush	940	800	100	940
5 of a kind	200	200	800	200
Wild royal	100	100	100	100
Straight flush	50	40	100	50
4 of a kind	15	20	16	17
Full house	7	5	8	7
Flush	5	4	5	5
Straight	3	3	4	3
3 of a kind	2	2	2	2
2 Pair	1	1	1	1
Kings/bet.	1	1	0	1
Return	96.74%	95.46%	97.19%	98.44%

Bonus Poker

Royal Flush	800	800	800	800	800	800
Straight flush	100	50	50	50	50	50
4 aces	200	80	80	80	160	80
4 2s, 3s or 4s	40	40	40	40	80	40
4 5-K	25	25	25	25	50	25
Full House	12	8	7	6	9	10
Flush	8	5	5	5	6	8
Straight	5	4	4	4	4	6
3 of a kind	3	3	3	3	3	3
Two pair	1	2	2	2	1	1
Jacks or better	1	1	1	1	1	1
Total Return	99.36%	99.17%	98.01%	96.87%	96.49%	95.78%

Double Bonus

Royal Flush	800	800	800	800	800	800
Straight flush	50	50	50	50	50	50
4 aces	160	160	160	160	160	160
4 2s, 3s or 4s	80	80	80	80	80	80
4 5-K	50	50	50	50	50	50
Full House	10	9	9	9	9	9
Flush	7	7	6	6	7	6
Straight	5	5	5	4	4	4
3 of a kind	3	3	3	3	3	3
Two pair	1	1	1	1	1	1
Jacks or better	1	1	1	1	1	1
Total Return	100.17%	99.11%	97.81%	96.49%	97.74%	96.38%

Triple Bonus

Royal Flush	800	800	800	800
Straight flush	80	60	100	80
4 aces	240	400	240	240
4 2s, 3s or 4s	120	80	120	120
4 5-K	50	50	50	50
Full House	9	7	8	8
Flush	5	5	5	5
Straight	4	4	4	4
3 of a kind	3	3	3	3
Two pair	1	1	1	1
Jacks or better	1	1	1	1
Total Return	99.57%	98.85%	98.73%	98.5%

Double Double Bonus Poker

Royal flush	800	800	800	800	800
Straight flush	50	50	50	50	50
4 aces w/ 2-4	400	400	400	400	400
4 2-4 w/ A-4	160	160	160	160	160
4 aces	160	160	160	160	160
4 2-4	80	80	80	80	80
4 5-K	50	50	50	50	50
Full house	10	9	9	8	6
Flush	6	6	5	5	5
Straight	4	4	4	4	4
3 of a kind	3	3	3	3	3
Two pair	1	1	1	1	1
Jacks/bet.	1	1	1	1	1
Total Return	100.07%	98.98%	97.87%	96.79%	94.66%

Triple Double Bonus Poker

Royal flush	800	800
Straight flush	50	50
4 aces w. 2-4	800	800
4 2-4 w. A-4	400	400
4 aces	160	160
4 2-4	80	80
4 5-K	50	50
Full house	8	9
Flush	5	5
Straight	4	4
3 of a kind	2	2
Two pair	1	1
Jacks/bet.	1	1
Total Return	95.97%	97.02%

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Simple Strategy (return of 100.71%)
Optimal Strategy (return of 100.77%)
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