Jacks or Better - Video Poker Reviews

Just like the casino!

Fun game

This is exactly what I wanted. Perfect match of 9-6 casino game.

The game is easy to understand and the graphics are better than on some of the other games I have seen, making it easier to see.

Its a fun game but its a little too basic for me. I was hoping for some sort of training software or at least a few different game modes but all you get is basic jacks or better. It does work well but its very basic.

This is a very solid Jacks or Better game. From what I can tell the shuffling is well and fairly implemented. I was getting about 96% return using an approximation to the optimal strategy, which I do not know 100% from memory. I then started using the double up feature, in part to get the Steam achievements and I ran cold in this, reducing my return percentage into the 80s. Such things happen in real gambling too and I have full confidence that double up is correctly implemented, especially with the high variance of using multiple double ups per winning hand and I've only played a few hundred hands. A 96% return without double ups seems about right, given my slightly imprecise strategy. Although the Jacks or Better pay table used in this game returns about 99.5% with optimal play, you only get about 97% back if my memory serves me correctly in the short term due to a lot of the return being due to a Royal Flush, which only happens about once every 20000 hands with best strategy. So in summary, the game seems a very accurate simulation of 9/6 Jacks or Better and I can recommend it. It is serving me well to practice the strategy in my Video Poker book. The only thing I'd change is that the game could offer other Jacks or Better pay tables as not all games in the real world offer the payouts in this game (the 9/6 table used in this game has the highest payout of the ones commonly used).