Paytables,
or pay schedules, which are always posted somewhere
on the
machine, tell you what each winning hand will
pay for the number of
coins played. Casinos can "loosen" or
"tighten" the return of a game by
manipulating the number of coins won on certain
pay categories. For
Jacks-or-better, it's the full house/flush numbers
that are the primary
indicator of a machine's payback percentage.
A
9/6 machine makes the payback, or return of 9
units or a full house
and 6 units for a flush, with one coin inserted.
A 9/6 Jacks-or-better
paytable should look like this:
Royal Flush 250
Straight Flush 50
Four of a Kind 25
Full House 9
Flush 6
Straight 4
Three of a Kind 3
Two Pair 2
Jacks or Better 1
One
caveat though, Barb: the payback percentages listed
below are
based on thousands of hands of video poker, and
include hitting an
elusive royal flush. They are not based on your
personal gambling
timeline such as downing two Bloody Mary's or
burning through a roll of
quarters.
A
6/5 machine (six for a full house, five for a
flush) returns 95.00%;
a 7/5 machine 96.15%; an 8/5, 97.30%; an 8/6,
98.39%; a 9/5, 98.45%;
and that phantom 9/6 machine 99.54%.
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