No matter what you have heard, full pay video poker is not a game that is
designed to pay out more than 100%. This would not make good business sense
because online casinos need a slight house edge to turn a profit and stay in
business.
Why play full pay video poker?
There are some online casinos that offer better odds than others on video
poker. This is basically what full pay video poker is - the best possible
odds that you will get in a game of video poker across all the various casinos.
Online casinos use full pay video poker as a means of bringing in more clients.
This works in both the online casino's favour as well as your own.
Using Jacks or Better video poker as an example, the best odds that you can
get is a 9/6 machine.
Generally, if an online casino offers full pay machines they will advertise
them well. However, if you wish to check for yourself then you can do so by
looking at the casino's payout table to establish if you are playing a full pay
video poker machine.
How to tell if a machine is full pay?
To do this, you need to look at the payout table's Full House and the Flush.
If you know that a full pay machine is called a 9/6 machine, then the Full House
should pay out 9:1 and the Flush should pay out 6:1. If either of these is any
less, then you are not paying a full pay video poker machine. These machines are
known as short pay machines and the odds can be as low as 6/5.
Other ways to check if the machine is a short pay machine
You can also look at the Two Pair payouts on the payout table. If the table
does not show at least 2:1 then this is a short pay machine. Furthermore, the
Royal Flush payout should pay out 4000 coins for a max bet of 5 coins.
There is no point in playing short pay video poker machines due to the fact
that there are so many online casinos that provide you with full pay video
poker. The key is to ensure that you are in fact playing a full pay machine by
looking at the pay table. At the end of the day you want to get the maximum
amount out of a win. This is why you are gambling online - to win money.
However, if a casino advertises its machines as full pay then by and large
they will be full pay machines.
