How to play
All American plays like any single-hand draw poker machine. Five cards come out, you keep what you like, the rest are replaced once, and the final hand is checked against the table.
On screen: Bet one steps your stake from 1 to 5 credits, Deal starts the hand, and Bet max deals at 5 credits in one tap. Tap cards to toggle Held. Draw completes the hand from the cards left in the deck, and the next hand comes from a new 52-card shuffle. Hint (after an optional ad) marks the exact best hold. You start on 1,000 virtual credits and can refill 1,000 for free if you run dry.
What makes this machine unusual isn’t the controls. It’s the flat middle of the pay table.
Pay table
| Hand | Per credit |
|---|---|
| Royal Flush | 250 (4,000 for 5 credits) |
| Straight Flush | 200 |
| Four of a Kind | 40 |
| Full House | 8 |
| Flush | 8 |
| Straight | 8 |
| Three of a Kind | 3 |
| Two Pair | 1 |
| Jacks or Better | 1 |
Straights pay exactly as much as full houses, and twice what they pay on a 9/6 Jacks or Better table. The straight flush pays four times its usual 50. To pay for that, two pair drops to 1 credit, which means two pair only gives your bet back.
The numbers
With perfect play at 5 credits this table returns 100.72%, from an exact count over all deals and holds. That’s above 100%, so in theory the player has the edge. In this game it only shows up in your virtual credit balance, and it takes very accurate play over a long run to see it.
The flat table also changes how a session feels:
- Fewer hands pay at all: about 41.9% under best play, compared with roughly 45% on most Jacks or Better tables, because you’ll often break up a pair to chase a straight or flush.
- When a straight or flush does land, it pays 8, so the wins are lumpier.
- A straight flush shows up about once every 7,050 hands and pays 1,000 credits at max bet.
Strategy
Forget the Jacks or Better instincts about straights. Here a straight is worth as much as a full house, so draws to straights and flushes jump up the priority list. Hands checked against the game’s exact hold values:
K♣ K♦ 4♣ 7♣ 9♣. Break the Kings and hold the four clubs. The flush draw is worth about 1.57 per credit, the paying pair about 1.41. On a 9/6 Jacks table you’d keep the Kings.
4♣ 4♦ 5♥ 6♠ 7♣. Throw a 4 and go for the straight with 4-5-6-7. That draw is worth about 1.36 against 0.70 for the pair of 4s.
5♣ 6♦ 8♥ 9♠ K♣. Hold the inside straight (5-6-8-9), not the King. Only four 7s complete it, but at 8 for 1 it’s still worth more than a lone high card.
3♣ 5♣ 7♣ with two unsuited cards. Even three low cards to a flush are better than a single King here.
9♣ 10♥ J♦ Q♠ 3♥. An open-ended four-card straight is a strong hold, worth nearly 1.5.
One habit survives: with two pair, keep both pairs. Even paying only 1, two pair gives you four chances at an 8-for-1 full house.
The straight flush bonus nudges three- and four-card straight-flush draws higher too. When the choice looks close, Hint settles it.
If you enjoy All American Poker, try American Roulette or Andar Bahar next.
