Aces and Eights Video Poker
A video poker game where four aces or eights and four sevens receive a bonus payout.
Aces and Faces Video Poker
A video poker game where four aces or four face cards of the same rank receive a bonus payout.
Aces with a Kicker
A term used on double double bonus video poker games where four aces with a two (deuce), three or four has a higher payout than four aces with any other card. See also Kicker
All American Video Poker
Has a higher payout for a Straight Flush than regular Jacks or Better Video Poker.
Average Payback
Also called Expected Return, Expected Value or EV. For a given hand, the average amount you win if you play that hand millions of times. For example, if a Royal Flush pays $4,000 and one card is drawn to a Four Card Royal Flush, your average payback is about $100. Average Payback is very important as for any hand that you can play more than one way, you should always use the play with the highest Average Payback.

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Bet Max
See Maximum Credits
Bonus Deuces Wild Video Poker
A bonus video poker game where the deuces (dueces) are wild cards creating additional bonus payouts from regular Deuces Wild Video Poker such as four deuces and an ace, five three, fours or fives and five sixes through kings.
Bonus Video Poker
Many Video Poker machines have larger payouts for bonus hands. A typical example is a larger payout for Four Aces. Of course, there will be a smaller payout for some smaller hands to compensate. A common example is a smaller payout for two pairs. Double Bonus Video Poker, Double Jackpot Video Poker and Double Double Bonus Video Poker and Double Double Jackpot Video Poker are typical bonus video poker games.
Bonus Video Poker Deluxe
A Jacks or Better type game featuring a higher payout for four of a kind.

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Cash Out
Each Video Poker machine has a Cash Out button that drops the accumulated credits into the player's tray.
Complete Hand
A hand that is defined by all five card available combinations. A straight, flush, full house, four of a kind, and a straight flush
Comps
Short for Compensation, comps are rewards that a casino pays you for playing. The casino tracks your play, usually with a plastic member card, and rewards you accordingly, providing you ask for your rewards. They include cash back, free meals, and free rooms. In online casinos comp point are usually in the form of additional cash value credits to your account.
Credits
The Video Poker Machine keeps track of the coins deposited and accumulated as winnings. These are shown on the credit meter. For example, if you deposit $10 in a 25 cent machine, you will receive 40 credits.
Cycle
The mathematical probability of getting any paying hand over a period of time. For example, a Royal Flush in Jacks or Better 9/6 full pay should occur once every 40,390.55 hands.Remembering that the games are random, it is possible to achieve no royals in one cycle and two on the next. The Poisson Distribution tells us that there is only a 63.2% probability of at least one royal flush in one cycle, but this is balanced by the chances of two or more royals in one cycle.

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Denomination
The denomination of each card in the deck is its number from two (deuce) through ten, or is Jack, Queen, King or Ace.
Deuces
Deuces are the two denomination in a deck of cards. Often mispelled as dueces
Deuces Deluxe Video Poker
features bonus payouts for four deuces (dueces), natural straight flush, royal flush with a deuce, five of a kind, wild straight flush and a wild four of a kind.
Deuces Wild Video Poker
A Video Poker Game where deuces (dueces) are wild cards, a wild card being a card that can take the place of any other denomination in the deck. Bonus payouts for four deuces, a deuces royal and five of a kind (any four of a kind with a deuce). See also Bonus Deuces Wild Video Poker and dueces.
Deuces and Jokers Wild Video Poker
A Video Poker Game where deuces (dueces) and jokers are wild cards and typically the payout for 5 wild cards is greater than that for a Royal Flush.
Discard Buttons
Under the display on the video poker machine are five buttons, one for each card. You press these buttons to indicate which cards you want to hold and which you want to discard.
Double Bonus Video Poker
Has bonus payouts typically for 4 aces, four deuces (dueces), threes or fours and four fives through kings. See paytable
Double Double Bonus Video Poker
Has bonus payouts typically for 4 aces, four aces with a deuce (dueces), two, three or four kicker, four deuces (dueces), threes or fours with and ace through four kicker, four deuces, threes or fours and four fives through kings.
Double Jackpot Video Poker
Has bonus payouts typically for 4 aces, four aces with a king, queen or jack kicker, four kings, queens or jacks with an ace, king, queen, jack kicker and four deuces through tens.
Double Joker Video Poker
Bonus payouts for a wild royal and five of a kind.
Double Double Jackpot Video Poker
Has bonus payouts typically for 4 aces, four aces with a king, queen or jack kicker, four kings, queens or jacks with an ace, king, queen, jack kicker and four deuces (dueces) through tens. The same bonus payout hands as for Double Jackpot but with variations in the payouts for the bonus hands.
Draw
In video poker the draw is a set of replacement cards for those cards not held from the deal hand.
Double Up
Some video poker games give the option to double up the bet on a winning hand. The object is to draw a higher value card against the machine to double your winnings.
Dueces
A common mispelling of deuces

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Edge
The advantage in a game based on mathematical expectation. The house edge means the house has the advantage. The player's edge means that the player has the advantage, such as in a 100%+ payout video poker machine.

Expected Return
The average amount of money paid back on a particular play for a particular bet. The Expected Return (ER) is the Expected Value of a play multiplied by the amount bet. Most commercially available video poker analysis programs, when analyzing a hand, give the ER of each possible play.
Expected Value
The statistically projected average per unit bet payback of a particular play. Another way of looking at the EV is the average of all possible outcomes for a particular play or game.