Online Video Poker Canada

There are many variations of video poker but all of them revolve around card combinations. The aim of the game is to collect a winning hand. At the beginning of a round, a player has to place a real money bet that normally consists of five coins of a variable denomination, normally starting at $1. Some video poker titles also accept bitcoins. A game screen of any poker usually shows a paytable at the top, five upcards at the center and control buttons at the bottom. When the player is ready to start, he should click a Deal (Draw) button. When the first five-card bunch is dealt, the player should take a good look at the cards to identify a winning set of cards, if any. Inexperienced players should always consult the paytable not to blunder away the winning cards.

A player then should choose which cards to hold in the current hand and which ones to swap. This is done by clicking a required card or the Hold button under a relevant card, depending on how this feature is implemented in the specific game. The cards which have been held stay in place, while the others are discarded and exchanged for other random cards. This second draw is free or, to say exactly, part of the initial wager. The player is considered to have lost the round if no winning combos are in place or won the play if there are some.

Every paytable shows a full list of valid combinations of cards and their related payouts. At the top of a table there is the most valuable and rare type such as Royal Flush (a set of same-suited cards going up successively from 10). The bottom of the table displays the lowest-valued set such as Two Pairs (or Jacks or Better, depending on the game).

Any video poker game has different versions with different payouts. In this respect, there is the term "full pay" which describes a game variation with the highest payouts possible. For example, in Jacks or Better (the most popular type of video poker), a player may receive 6:1 or 5:1 for Flush. Similarly, in different poker variants, the payouts for Full House are 9:1, 8:1 and even 7:1. Full-pay video poker games usually award 6 and 9 credits for Flush and Full House, accordingly. And that implies that games with higher payouts have lower house edge. So experienced video poker fans recommend picking the game with the best payout schemes. In video poker online with classic hand rankings, the top three real money awards are usually 250:1 for Royal Flush, 50:1 for Straight Flush and 25:1 for Four of a Kind.

There is a plenty of video poker variations in online casinos of today and listing them would make this review book-length. Besides, many titles come with the prefix words "super", "bonus" and etc., which makes the entire list of video poker games even longer. Anyway, some of the most trending games that enjoy the greatest popularity among CA players are:

• Jacks or Better. The lowest payout (normally, 1:1) is assigned for a pair of jacks or higher cards. The game has a minimal house advantage at 0.46%
• Deuces Wild. In this game, twos functions as wild cards replacing other cards to complete a winning set. To compensate this clear benefit for a player, the lowest combination is three of a kind
• Aces and Faces. There are two bonus payouts: Four Aces (80:1) and Four Face Cards of a Kind (40:1).
• Joker Poker. The game is played with a joker card that is classed as a replacement for other cards and leads to some bonus payouts like Joker Royal Flush (100:1).

There are actually over 100 variations of real money video poker games, most of which are available for players of Canada.