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How to win at Draw Poker?
I have this "Draw Poker" game.
You can't vary the bet, which would make it too easy.
Deal five cards, hold the ones you want, etc. Jacks or better pays 5 points. Two of any pair is ten, etc.
Every bet costs you 5 points.
I've fooled with this for years, on and off. Playing conservatively gradually builds some points but they always bleed away again.
Is there any guide to beating this thing?
3 Answers
- pdqLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
This person is specifically talking about Video Poker, not real Draw Poker.
Here is one of the best websites out there that will show you the absolute best strategy with which to play your poker game. Playing PERFECT will still NOT allow you to beat the game. The best you can ever hope for is to get a 99.54% return.
99.54% return simply means that ON AVERAGE, you will win 99.54 for every 100.00 you bet. So if you bet 10,000 credits and you play PERFECT strategy, you will have 9,954 credits left. Again - that is ON AVERAGE.
By the way - there is no such thing as "playing conservatively" when it comes to these machines. You either play correctly, or you don't. The only time you worry about "playing conservatively" is if you're actually playing against real opponents. If you were playing against real opponents, you very well might throw away pocket Jacks before the draw because you want to play conservatively. In the "Draw Poker" game that you're playing, if you get pocket Jacks, you keep those pocket Jacks unless you're drawing 4 to a Royal Flush.
- PokerChicLv 61 decade ago
Play only the best starting hands. Fold absolutely everything else.
If it's a draw poker video game where there is no folding...nope. You lose, with the occasional nice hand every so often. If you happen to get on a winning streak, stop forever when you get ahead.
Play with real people. Real people make mistakes. In a real draw poker game, there is raising and re-raising, which can help you get ahead.
- meloLv 44 years ago
immediately flush beats non-immediately flush. between 2 flushes (or immediately flushes), optimal card wins (ace continuously counts extreme different than for a wheel immediately flush). If tied, then 2d-optimal card and so on. interior the a threat (yet fairly uncommon in 5-card draw) case that each and all and sundry 5 taking part in cards same rankwise, it particularly is a split pot. (the quicker poster is incorrect concerning score of suits...so a techniques as hand power is in touch, all suits are of equivalent power.)