Jackpot Poker is a video poker variant played at Paf casino. It has a strange pay table, starting at a pair of kings, yet with no wild cards. The game makes up for no win on a pair of jacks or queens with high pays on the full house, four of a kind, and straight flush. There is also a progressive jackpot for a royal flush in hearts.
Rules
While the base game could be played anywhere, as far as I know, this game is only found at the Paf Casino. There they observe the following rules:
Game is played in five-play mode. In other words, the player gets five hands on the draw.
The bet is fixed at €0.50 per line.
The game uses the following pay table.
Pay Table
Event
Pays
Royal flush in hearts
Jackpot
Royal flush
800
Straight flush
200
Four of a kind
75
Full house
17
Flush
6
Straight
4
Three of a kind
2
Two pair
1
Kings or better
1
Loser
0
Analysis
The following return table shows the probability and return for each hand. The table assumes optimal player strategy based on a jackpot of 800 for a royal flush in hearts. In other words, no strategy deviations for the jackpot.
Return Table
Event
Pays
Combinations
Probability
Return
Royal flush in hearts
Jackpot
111,391,110
0.000006
?
Royal flush
800
334,173,330
0.000017
0.013412
Straight flush
200
2,922,073,236
0.000147
0.029319
Four of a kind
75
46,320,842,700
0.002324
0.174285
Full house
17
224,955,237,420
0.011285
0.191852
Flush
6
314,094,905,964
0.015757
0.094544
Straight
4
273,814,948,356
0.013737
0.054946
Three of a kind
2
1,435,729,767,768
0.072027
0.144054
Two pair
1
2,483,099,710,704
0.124571
0.124571
Kings or better
1
2,101,798,198,620
0.105442
0.105442
Nothing
0
13,050,049,267,992
0.654688
0.000000
Total
19,933,230,517,200
1.000000
0.932425 + ?
Based on the €0.50 bet per line, the return goes up by 1.12% for each €1,000 in the meter. The game becomes break-even at 12,092 bet units in the meter, or €6046.21.
