Online Video Poker Paytables by Online-Casinos.com

The video poker paytables are always visible on the front of the video poker machines, so it's very easy to determine if it's a good or a short pay machine you are standing in front of if you know what to look for. Many casino players don't know what to look for so they end up playing a game that is ripping them off compared to full pay machines. I guess that is why the casinos put these short pay machines up all over the place.

On this page of Online-Casinos.com, I will try to teach you how to spot the good paytables - known as the full pay video poker games. Below is a screenshot of a paytable taken from a Jacks or Better machine. After having studied this page you should be able to determine if the screenshot is taken from a full pay video poker game or if this one is from a short pay machines. You can hover your mouse pointer over the picture to get the correct answer to this question - but you should try to figure our the correct answer yourself before looking.

Below we can see paytables for 4 different kinds of Jacks or Better video poker - all showing the payouts when a single coin is played. The full pay version that we are looking for and 3 other versions of the game with lower odds. We don't want the casinos to take our money so we will not play those short pay games anymore - right?

	Full Pay - 9/6	Short Pay - 8/5	7/5	6/5
Royal Flush	250	250	250	250
Straight Flush	50	50	50	50
4 of a Kind	25	25	25	25
Full House	9	8	7	6
Flush	6	5	5	5
Straight	4	4	4	4
3 of a Kind	3	3	3	3
2 Pairs	2	2	2	2
Pair of Jacks or Better	1	1	1	1
Expected Return*	99.50%	97.30%	96.15%	95.00%

Deuces Wild Video Poker Paytables:

	Full Pay	Short Pay
Royal Flush	250	250
4 Deuces	200	200
Wild Royal	25	25
5 of a Kind	15	15
Straight Flush	9	9
4 of a Kind	5	4
Full House	3	3
Flush	2	2
Straight	2	2
3 of a Kind	1	1
Expected Return*	100.17%	94.30%

Double Bonus Video Poker Paytables:

	Full Pay - 10/7	Short Pay - 9/7	Short Pay - 9/6
Royal Flush	250	250	250
Straight Flush	50	50	50
4 Aces	160	160	160
4 (2 3 4's)	80	80	80
4 (5-K's)	50	50	50
Full House	10	9	9
Flush	7	7	6
Straight	5	5	5
3 of a Kind	3	3	3
2 pairs	1	1	1
Pair of Jacks or better	1	1	1
Expected Return*	100.70%	99.10%	97.80%