Video poker hand analyzer
Choose a game, pick the five cards you were dealt and the analyzer counts every possible draw for all 32 ways to hold them: up to about 1.5 million hands per hold. It is the same calculation as the Hint button in most of our video poker games, run in your browser, and our paper on hold analysis explains it step by step. Values are for a maximum bet of 5 credits, where the royal flush pays its bonus.
Your hand: pick five cards below
How to use the result
- Average return is what the hold pays back on average for a 5-credit bet, over every card the draw could bring. The top row is the best play; holds within a hair of it are practically equal.
- Playing the best hold every hand gives the return shown for each game on our fairness page.
- Wild cards (deuces, jokers) and bonus payouts change the best play a lot, so check the right game: the same hand can call for different holds in different games.