suggest
playing the maximum coins allowed to yield a better
payback
percentage. If playing the maximum amount happens
to be a budget
buster, those same esteemed sources and Yours
Truly will also recommend
switching to a lower denomination machine. Can't
hack playing $3 a
yank? ...play 75¢ instead.
There
are, however, a few machines that do return 500
for one coin
inserted, 1,000 for two coins, and 1,500 for three
coins. If you happen
to come across this sort of proportional paytable,
you wouldn't need to
play the maximum amount of coins to get full value
from this machine.
Dear
Mark,
Everything I’ve seen about the vigorish on
video poker includes maximum
coin play with a royal flush. If the royal is
excluded from the
computation, what is the vigorish on a 9/6 machine?
Mike H.
For
inquiring minds, what Mike meant by a “9/6
machine” is that it’s a
Jacks or Better machine paying 9 for a full house,
6 for a flush, with
one coin inserted.
Jacks
or Better video poker with maximum coin play has
a house edge of
0.5%. Excluding the royal flush, the casino’s
advantage would be
approximately 2.5%. Here’s a barnyard math
way of viewing it. If, for
instance, you were to play 600 hands per hour
on a $1 Jacks or Better
9/6 machine, you can expect to lose about $75
per hour, on average, for
each hour you play without hitting that phantom
royal flush.
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