Best Video Poker on the Las Vegas Strip

From vpFREE2



I’ve been taking a look at the best video poker from Atlantic City to Las Vegas recently. Today I decided to look to see which casinos offered the best video poker on the Las Vegas Strip. The Vegas strip does NOT include places just off the strip like Palms and Hard Rock Casino.
Most casinos offer good video poker games in their high limit rooms with games starting at $5 so I decided to look at the best video poker games under $5 since that’s what more people play.

The good video poker games listed here are between 10 cents and $2 with max bets from 50 cents to $10. The pay table percentages are all based on max bets. Once again casinos are listed from best video poker to worst.

Circus Circus 100.25% Aces and Eights
Excalibur 99.58% Triple Double Bonus
Luxor 99.54% Jacks or Better (JoB)
New York-New York 99.54% JoB
Treasure Island 99.54% JoB
Mandalay Bay 99.20% Loose Deuces Wild
Aria 99.17% Bonus Poker (BP)
Casino Royale 99.17% BP
Riviera 99.17% BP
Tropicana 99.17% BP
MGM Grand 99.11% DB
Mirage 99.11% Double Bonus (DB)
Wynn 99.11% DB
Caesars Palace 98.45% JoB
Flamingo 98.45% JoB
Palazzo 98.45% JoB
Planet Hollywood 98.45% JoB
Venetian 98.45% JoB
Bally’s 98.01% BP
Cosmopolitan 98.01% BP
Encore 98.01% BP
Harrah’s 98.01% BP
Paris 98.01% BP
The Quad 98.01% BP
Monte Carlo NA
Stratosphere NA

The biggest surprises from this research is that there are positive returning machines on the Vegas strip (Circus Circus) and that the Stratosphere has absolutely no playable video poker games according to vpFREE. Monte Carlo has playable video poker but all are $5 machines.

Circus Circus is a dump. I don't think you want to spend any extended time there.

Last I checked (about a month ago), there was a 99.96% pay 10-6 double-double bonus poker machine at Rio. It's kind of near the All American Bar and Grill, and is a $1 machine, but you are forced to do a minimum of 3-play (and can do as many as 10-play).

That means it will be between $15 and $50 per hand.

Anyway, here is the strategy page for the game:

http://wizardofodds.com/games/video-...ble-bonus/9-6/

Not sure why it is listed as 100.07% instead of 99.96%, but that's just about the same thing anyway.

Play perfect strategy and you will only lose $4 every $10,000 coin-in! Of course, this machine has very high variance, especially in 10-play mode.

Also, keep in mind that it's $50 per tier credit instead of $10 per tier, so it will take you awhile to earn tier credits. Basically, you will earn 1 tier credit per hand if you max-10-play. This will take a relatively fast player 5 hours to earn 2,500 tier points, if you care about that.

If by some fluke you get dealt a natural Royal (happens once every 640,000 hands), you will win $40,000 if you are in 10-play mode.

I thought 10/6 DDB is 100.06% isn't it?

I'm all too used to the 9/6 DDB variant (98.98%)....

EDIT: Here's a very comprehensive list of many percentage paybacks of various paytables: Video Poker Help


Dan, check the straight flush payout...If it's 200 coins instead of 250 the 100.07% becomes 99.96% (thanks to that site for info)

Last time I walked into Circus Circus (4 years ago) I bought $100.00 worth of dollar tokens. They had a bank of old slot machines that still took the tokens. Anyway, I put my first 3 tokens in, hit 3 blue 7's and hit the jackpot for $1000.00. Was out of there in a flash.

I never have any good luck at the Rio. I like Caesars 9/6 double bonus by the sports book and the forum shops but alternate the games between db, ddb, & tb.

10/6 DDBP is not under 100%.

Go to Wynn's high limit room if you want what you call "playable" games. That's why there's all this whining about pay tables everywhere all the time, and it 's what the weenies on vpFree continually cry about. There's decent pay tables at many places, but why should the casinos put them out there for pauper players who say one thing, then always do the other? And WTF does "playable" mean anyway. If someone doesn't like the pay tables on the lower limit machines, then either don't play them, play the higher limit machines with the best pay tables....or stick your heads in the sand.

There are 2 versions of 10/6 DD, one has a SF paying 250 and the other has a SF that pays 200. That makes the difference from one being over 100% and one just under 100%.

May I ask a practical question? Usually the return of various video poker games is determined by the full houses and flushes. How often do we get full houses and flushes? I have played sessions where I never had a flush, or never had a full house. Yet, I won big because I hit a royal or quads. Most recently this happened when playing Royal Aces Bonus.

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Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson

May I ask a practical question? Usually the return of various video poker games is determined by the full houses and flushes. How often do we get full houses and flushes? I have played sessions where I never had a flush, or never had a full house. Yet, I won big because I hit a royal or quads. Most recently this happened when playing Royal Aces Bonus.

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First, the return of a game is based on the overall pay table, not just the flush and/or full house. They always get the distinction because they're the two winners which change the most, which in turn affects the payback %. And I agree, there's been too many times to count, most recently in some of the sessions where I've hit my big winners, where flushes and full houses were nowhere to be found in the session.That's why I teach not to focus on those two hands being very important in the overall scheme of things. They play a part, but mostly (and I say that because in goal-oriented strategies such as mine they play a slightly more important part) only as far as giving you a few more hands to play--and most probably, lose anyway--before you leave. They are greatly overrated, and mostly serve to feed into the meaningless +EV & -EV frenzy, which any intelligent player knows is of so little difference that in any given session (which is how everyone approaches play whether they like the sound of it or not) that the stat is totally and irrevocably irrelevant.

I've been playing DDBP since 1999 and the 10/6 version whenever and wherever I can find it in the casinos I play at and in the denominations I play, and I've never seen or even heard of one that pays 200 credits for a SF. It doesn't make sense either. I HAVE seen 10/7 DBP pay tables with a 300 credit SF though. So is this a real casino pay table, and if so, where?

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Originally Posted by Rob.Singer

First, the return of a game is based on the overall pay table, not just the flush and/or full house. They always get the distinction because they're the two winners which change the most, which in turn affects the payback %. And I agree, there's been too many times to count, most recently in some of the sessions where I've hit my big winners, where flushes and full houses were nowhere to be found in the session.That's why I teach not to focus on those two hands being very important in the overall scheme of things. They play a part, but mostly (and I say that because in goal-oriented strategies such as mine they play a slightly more important part) only as far as giving you a few more hands to play--and most probably, lose anyway--before you leave. They are greatly overrated, and mostly serve to feed into the meaningless +EV & -EV frenzy, which any intelligent player knows is of so little difference that in any given session (which is how everyone approaches play whether they like the sound of it or not) that the stat is totally and irrevocably irrelevant.

I've been playing DDBP since 1999 and the 10/6 version whenever and wherever I can find it in the casinos I play at and in the denominations I play, and I've never seen or even heard of one that pays 200 credits for a SF. It doesn't make sense either. I HAVE seen 10/7 DBP pay tables with a 300 credit SF though. So is this a real casino pay table, and if so, where?

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Earth to Bubba, not everything is about you. This thread is an example, it's not about you. But I do feel sorry for you, the goal of your first reply was draw attention to you (as always) and since nobody responded, you decided to give it another try. Counceling might do the trick :)

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Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson

May I ask a practical question? Usually the return of various video poker games is determined by the full houses and flushes. How often do we get full houses and flushes? I have played sessions where I never had a flush, or never had a full house. Yet, I won big because I hit a royal or quads. Most recently this happened when playing Royal Aces Bonus.

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To quote a phrase that is easily forgiven when foreigners without a good grasp of the English language try to use to the best of their ability (yes....they are jealous of anyone in the UK too)---Earth to Alan; this is not about you! :)

Sorry Rob but I have no idea what half or more of your posts mean or who they apply to.