Video Poker Royal Flush Odds

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Don't let video poker royal flush odds confuse you. The largest misconception is that a slot machine or video poker machine will hit a jackpot after a definite collection of hands. Nothing is farther from the truth.

A video poker machine isn't programmed to run a undeniable selection of hands and ensure the casino wins a specific amount of cash. No. All possible hands are programmed so the RNG (Random Number Generator) will pick one after the other and the percentages paid for every winning hand are adjusted to regardless of the manufacturer or the casino want their machines to pay (and win).

This leaves the gambler playing a game that has a house-set edge, similar to all games the casinos offer. And prefer the other games you simply might get lucky and beat the odds, or get beat by them. A video poker machine uses a regular 52-card deck. In line with all of the possible five-card hands that may be dealt, the chances of getting a royal flush dealt to you might be 649740 to one. Because video poker allows a player to attract additional cards (one time per hand), the chances of hitting a royal flush on a typical Jacks or Better game are about 40,390.

Simple Example

If you play 300 hands per hour of video poker, you're going to hit a royal flush about every 133 hours. If you happen to play 10 hours a weekend, you're going to average one royal flush every 3 months. However, with a hand that only hits one day trip of 40,000 your variance could be very large. You could not hit a royal for a year otherwise you could hit one twice in an evening.

Think of this like a bucket of sand with 40,000 grains in it. 39,999 of the grains are white. One grain is black and pays the royal flush. One grain pops out of the bucket each time you bet, and after the hand it's put back within the bucket and the bucket is shaken and a brand new grain pops out. It's statistically fair, and it's still 40,000 to one the following grain is a royal.

Would you be surprised should you saw 1000 grains without the black royal flush, and even 10,000? In fact not. Unfortunately, after seeing 20,000 grains without the royal you aren't really any closer than you were after the primary grain, since the odds are still 40,000 to at least one against getting that crazy black royal flush grain. Every bet is usually 40,000 to 1.

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