All American Video Poker
Variant of Jacks or Better, All American Video Poker is a variant designed by Microgaming casino software. This standard video poker game supported by Viper technology has no wild cards and the starting payoff hand in this game is Jacks or Better. Some of the casinos offering All American Video Poker also provides auto play mode.
Objective
All American Video Poker being a variation of the Jacks or better Video Poker game is played with similar winning hands, where the payoffs start at Jacks or Better, which means as a player you must have at least a pair of Jacks or Better to qualify for the payouts. The objective is to simply create highest paying and Royal Flush or one of the other winning hands.
Rules for playing All American Video Poker
All American is a regular Jacks or Better look-alike Video Poker game played with standard objective of creating a winning hand ranking by drawing cards and holding the right one for the next draw. The minimum bet in this Video Poker variant is $1 which makes maximum bet $5. All American is also played with the usual 52 card deck shuffled randomly at every draw by Random Number Generator.
The game play is simple; you press the deal button and draw 5 random cards. Usually the bet range is $1 to $5. Holding strategies for All American Video Poker is different from other variant strategies.
Poker Hand in All American Video Poker
 |
Royal flush |
 |
Straight flush |
 |
Four of a kind |
 |
Full house |
 |
Flush |
 |
Straight |
 |
Three of a kind |
 |
Two pairs |
 |
Jacks or better |
Card Holding Strategies
 |
Basic card holding strategy when dealt with a non-wining hand is to hold four cards to straight flush or royal flush or flush |
 |
Always hold three cards to Royal Flush and Straight Flush |
 |
Hold four cards to open ended straight |
 |
Hold low pair (under jack) |
 |
Hold any single high card |
 |
Always hold any two suited or unsuited high cards |
 |
Hold a suited pair of 10 and Q or 10 and J or 10 and K. |
 |
Always hold a Jack card or Better |
 |
Prefer to play maximum coin bets on every hand. |
 |
When dealt with winning pair and an extra high card, prefer to discard the extra high card. |
 |
Avoid holding a kicker with winning pair, as it decreases the possibility of creating a three of a kind. |
All American Payout
Payout for All American Video Poker for minimum and maximum bet on each hand offers is as follows: Royal Flush (minimum 250 and maximum 4,000), Straight Flush (minimum 200 and maximum 1000), Four of a kind (minimum 34 and maximum 170), full house (minimum 8 and maximum 40), flush (minimum 8 and maximum 40), straight (minimum 8 and maximum 40), three of a kind (minimum 3 and maximum 15), two pairs (minimum 1 and maximum 5) and pair of Jacks or Better (minimum 1 and maximum 5).
|