How to play
Underneath, this is plain Jacks or Better on a single 52-card deck. The difference sits in a small badge next to the cards. Before the deal it shows ×?. The moment the cards are dealt, a multiplier from ×1 to ×8 is rolled for that hand, and whatever the hand pays at the end is multiplied by it.
The price of that badge is a double stake. Bet one steps the bet from 1 up to 5 and back round to 1, and the display reads, for example, “Bet: 3 (costs 6)”; then press Deal. Bet max skips that and deals straight away at 5, which costs 10. Credits for the full cost leave your balance on the deal.
After the deal you see five cards and the multiplier for this hand. Tap any cards you want to keep (they show Held), then press Draw. Unheld cards are replaced from the same shuffled deck, the hand is scored, and a win is announced as, say, “Two Pair ×3! +18”. A fresh shuffle comes with every deal.
Pay table
Payouts are per credit of bet and are then multiplied by the hand’s multiplier. They follow the familiar 9/6 table, named for the 9 on a full house and the 6 on a flush:
| Hand | Pays per credit |
|---|---|
| Royal Flush | 250 (800 at a 5 bet, so 4,000) |
| Straight Flush | 50 |
| Four of a Kind | 25 |
| Full House | 9 |
| Flush | 6 |
| Straight | 4 |
| Three of a Kind | 3 |
| Two Pair | 2 |
| Pair of Jacks, Queens, Kings or Aces | 1 |
Note the bet is your bet, not the doubled cost. A pair of kings on a 5 bet pays 5, then gets multiplied. A royal flush at a 5 bet with an ×8 badge pays 32,000.
How the multiplier is drawn
Every deal draws one multiplier from this fixed table of 100 slots:
| Multiplier | Chance |
|---|---|
| ×1 | 53% |
| ×2 | 25% |
| ×3 | 11% |
| ×4 | 5% |
| ×5 | 3% |
| ×6 | 1% |
| ×7 | 1% |
| ×8 | 1% |
So slightly more than half the time the badge does nothing, and a ×5 or better turns up on just 6% of hands. The average is (53 + 50 + 33 + 20 + 15 + 6 + 7 + 8) ÷ 100 = 1.92.
The return
Played perfectly at a 5 bet, the 9/6 table on its own gives back 99.54% of what you wager. Here every result is scaled by an average of 1.92, but you pay 2 times the bet, so the whole game returns 99.54% × 1.92 ÷ 2 = 95.56%. The multiplier feature, in other words, costs you roughly four points of return compared with the same table without it. That’s the trade: lower long-run return, much bigger swings.
Betting fewer than 5 lowers the return further, because the royal flush then pays only 250 per credit instead of 800.
Strategy
The useful insight is that the multiplier has no effect on which cards to hold. It’s known before you choose, but it scales every possible outcome of the draw by the same factor, so the hold that gives the best average payout at ×1 is still the best at ×8. Play standard Jacks or Better strategy on every hand and ignore the badge while deciding.
A short version of that strategy, from the top:
- Keep any paying hand of two pair or better, but break a flush or straight when you hold four to a royal.
- Keep four to a royal flush over a pair of jacks or better.
- Keep a high pair over four to a flush; keep four to a flush over a low pair.
- A low pair (2s through 10s) beats holding one or two high cards.
- With nothing, keep high cards, ideally suited ones; with no high cards at all, draw five new cards.
For anything trickier, the Hint button shows the best hold after a short optional ad.
On bet size: the 5 bet is the only one where the royal pays its full 800, and that matters most here, because a royal under a high multiplier is the biggest single payout in the game. If credits are tight, the honest alternative is to play fewer hands rather than smaller ones.
In Multiplier Draw the multiplier isn’t random; it’s earned by the hand you just made and carried into the next. The plain table without any multiplier is in Video Poker.
If you enjoy Random Multiplier Poker, try Razz or Red Dog next.
