Royal Flush Slot
The “royal flush”, sometimes called “imperial flush”, is simply an ace flush. It is the highest possible hand in Video Poker games. It can therefore only be beaten by another straight flush of higher rank. Like a normal flush, a straight flush can be “white”, if this convention is accepted at the table. Jul 06, 2019 Royal Flush. A royal flush is a flush. This means that all of the cards must be of the same suit. There are a number of different kinds of flushes. Unlike most flushes, in a royal flush, the value of all five cards are completely specified. The cards in one's hand must be a ten, jack, queen, king and ace all of the same suit.
Thousands of hands played. Thousands more to go.
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I received an email recently from someone bemoaning the fact that he never had a royal flush even though he had played video poker for many years. His story went something like this:
I play video poker a lot and I always look for the machines with the best return when I play. I have friends that play all day and almost every day. I have never had a non-wild royal flush in 40 years of play. Some of my friends have one now and then.
A royal flush is usually the most prized hand in video poker although there are some games where other hands pay as much and sometimes even more. For most of the common video poker varieties the royal flush will appear once in about 40,000 to 48,000 hands. In some games the royal flush appears only once in about 352,000 hands (pick‘em poker). What does the 40,000 to 48,000 number actually mean?
It means that in the “long term” you can expect a royal once in every 40,000 to 48,000 hands. But what is the long term? It is millions and millions of hands.
I was unable to get additional information from this individual as to how much he plays. Information such as the number of sessions played in a year, the average length of a session and the speed of play all are important in determining how many hands have been played.
I track several items when I play video poker in a casino including number of hands played. I do this by writing down the starting slot club point balance. I also determine the amount of play required per point and calculate the number of points per hand. Sometimes it is a fraction of a point. Then at the end of a session I again note the slot club point balance. By subtracting the starting points from the ending points and dividing by the points per hand, the result is the number of hands played. With this information I can track the number hands I have played since my last royal flush.
Let’s look at the length of play required. For the following discussion I will use 40,000 hands as the average number of hands between royal flushes.
Most people to whom I have talked are totally unaware of how long it takes to play 40,000 hands of video poker. Playing at a relatively fast 500 hands per hour, it takes 80 hours of play to reach the 40,000 hand mark. At four hours per day it would take 20 days to achieve the mark. That means 20 one-day trips, 10 two-day trips or five four-day trips.
However, most people don’t play 500 hands per hour. Most are closer to 200. At that rate it will take 200 hours to play 40,000 hands. Using the previous examples, it takes 50 days at four hours of play each day to reach 40,000 hands. It takes 100 days at two hours of play per day and 200 days at one hour of play per day to reach 40,000 hands. That is more than half a year of play. Spread that out over 40 years and it averages out to five hours of play per year. It is certainly within the realm of possibility that he only played this much over the 40 years.
Remember, 40,000 hands between royal flushes is an average. The problem with this average, however, is it is just that; an average. It means that on any given hand there is a one in 40,000 chance the player will get a royal flush. That average is spread out over millions and millions of hands played. Though not very likely, it is possible to get two royal flushes in a row. Looking at the opposite end of randomness it is also possible to not receive a royal flush for 100,000, 200,000 or even 500,000 hands. That is how it goes in a random game. Virtually no one ever gets two royal flushes in a row, but they also don’t go 500,000 hands without a royal flush.
The vast majority of video poker players get a royal within three to four normal “royal cycles.” This means for our example of 40,000 hands between royals, a royal will appear within 120,000 to 160,000 hands. Since I have been keeping records my longest period between royal flushes has been 126,000 hands. On the other end, I also got three royals in about 26,000 hands. All things balance out over time if you play enough.
If our player above played 15 hours of video poker per year at 200 hands per hour, he has played 120,000 hands. He is still well within the “normal” distribution.
All we do know is if he keeps playing, that elusive royal flush will occur sometime, so keep the faith.
Video Poker Strategy: How Would You Play These Hands?
Let’s look at a couple of hands with a potential for a royal flush. Playing a full-pay Jacks or Better game with max credits of 5, you are dealt:
A♣ Q♣ J♣ J♦ 6♠
Would you go for the royal flush by saving the A♣ Q♣ J♣? Or would you take the sure thing and save the two Jacks?
Going for the royal flush you have one chance to hit the jackpot. There are also 675 chances out of 1,081 possible draws that you will get nothing.
Keeping the pair of jacks, you are guaranteed even money. This will happen in 11,559 out of a possible 16,215 draws. But there are also 2,592 chances to get two pairs paying 2-for-1, 1,854 chances for a three-of-a-kind paying 3-for-1, 165 chances for a full house paying 9-for-1, and 45 chances for four-of-a-kind paying 25-for-1.
The average return for saving three of a royal flush in this case is 6.96 per five credits played versus 7.68 when saving the pair of jacks. Saving the jacks is easily way to go.
Let’s look at one more hand. Playing the same game with max credits you are dealt a very similar hand: A♣ Q♣ T♣ J♦ 6♣
What would you do? There are three cards of a royal, four of a flush and four of a straight. Would you save the three of a royal or is there a better option?
Saving the four of a straight is a very weak play returning only 2.66 per five credits played. The problem here is there are only 47 possible draws and only two possible results—jacks or better at even money and a straight at 4-for-1.
Saving three of the royal gives 1,081 possible draws with opportunities for jacks or better, two pairs, three-of-a-kinds, straights, flushes and the ultimate draw—the royal flush. The average return for this save is 6.35 per five credits played.
By saving four of a flush you are also limited to only 47 possible draws with jacks or better or a flush as the only two possible ways to not lose this bet. Due to the higher pay for a flush over a straight (6-for-1 instead of 4-for-1), the return for saving four of a flush is 6.38 per five credits played. It is a very close call, but saving for of a flush is the best save for this hand.
Is that how you would have played them?
The crème de la crème of almost every poker game is getting a Royal Flush. It’s not only a rare occurrence that can make jaws drop, but hitting a Royal Flush is usually something that will boost a bankroll by a ton. This is certainly the case in Video Pokers, which are simple games with potentially massive rewards.
But how much will you actually make if you happen to hit a Royal Flush at a casino playing Video Poker and what is the likelihood of doing so? These are just two of the questions that we will be answering in the following article, along with explaining the optimal strategy of drawing to a Royal Flush.
Before we get to this, though, let us start with the basics to make sure that you know what a Royal Flush actually is. Many gamblers wrongly confuse the hand with a straight flush. Let’s not make that mistake.
The Difference Between a Straight Flush and a Royal Flush
As you may or may not already know, a straight in any 5-card poker game is made up of five cards that are sequentially connected to each other, while a flush is five cards that are all of the same suit (♥, ♠, ♦ or ♣). Logically, a straight flush is therefore five cards of the same suit that are sequentially connected to each other.
The same can actually be said about a Royal Flush, which is also a colored straight. However, this hand is only created if the colored straight is made up of the five highest cards in the deck. In other words, the 10, Jack, Queen, King and Ace. Thus, it is much more difficult to hit a Royal Flush in Video Poker than it is hitting just a straight flush.
These are some of the straight flushes in Video Poker:
- 2♥, 3♥, 4♥, 5♥, 6♥
- 9♠, 10♠, J♠, Q♠, K♠
- 5♦, 6♦, 7♦, 8♦, 9♦
- 7♣, 8♣, 9♣, 10♣, J♣
These are the only four Royal Flushes in Video Poker:
- 10♥, J♥, Q♥, K♥, A♥
- 10♠, J♠, Q♠, K♠, A♠
- 10♦, J♦, Q♦, K♦, A♦
- 10♣, J♣, Q♣, K♣, A♣
How Much Does a Royal Flush Payout in Video Pokers Online?
This depends on two things; the version of the game that you’re playing and the coin level that you’re playing with. Many of the best Video Poker casinos in the UK have several different variants that can be enjoyed, such as Jacks or Better, Deuces Wild, Joker Poker, Jackpot Poker, All Aces and All American.
All of these games also have five different coin levels, which is a betting option. No matter the Video Poker you’re playing, you’re betting coins and the coin level decides how many you’re betting (1, 2, 3, 4 or 5). To get the right stake, you can also adjust a coin value that sets the amount of real cash that each coin should be worth.
What’s important to know and what is illustrated in the below table, is that you must play with the highest coin level to be able to get the highest payout from a Royal Flush in Video Poker.
Royal Flush Southern Motion Sofa
Please note that the above payouts are all listed as a multiplier to the stake that you’re playing with. So if you’re playing with a stake of £1 and get a 250x win from a Royal Flush, you would win £250.
As you can see, the payouts from a Royal Flush are very similar between the different Video Poker versions. The only one that stands out is Jackpot Poker which has the potential to pay a lot more. This game comes with a progressive jackpot that can pay tens of thousands of pounds if it’s been built up nicely. It also never pays any less than £5,000 as this is the jackpot’s starting value.
In Jackpot Poker the stake is only adjusted by the coin level and when this is set to the maximum one, you’re betting £5. This means that winning the jackpot will pay 1,000 times your stake at the very least and could potentially pay up to 10,000x.
These Are the Odds of Getting a Royal Flush in Video Poker
Like most gamblers, you’re probably wise enough to know that getting a Royal Flush while playing video poker is really difficult. Though, you may also think that it wouldn’t be too hard should you be spending a couple of hours on a session trying to achieve it. If you do believe this, you’re actually terribly wrong.
Let us assume that a hand of video poker takes 5 seconds to play. You would then be able to go through 12 hands every minute and 720 hands every hour. If you keep this up you would be expected to get your Royal Flush after playing straight for two days and 7 hours as the chance of hitting one is approximately 1 in 40,000 hands. This is probably way more than you thought, right?
While it may not be much of a comfort, we can tell you that you will come close to hitting one much more often. To illustrate this, let’s have a look at the chance of being dealt 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 cards to a Royal Flush on the initial deal.
As you can see, playing for just an hour would yield you as many as 7 game rounds where you get teased by getting dealt three cards to a Royal Flush. And if you make your session a really long one and play for about four hours, you will even be dealt a hand where only a single card is missing from the big hand.
This might make you wonder what the chances are to hit the cards that you need after the initial deal. Well, let us answer this by taking a look at it!
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The most interesting part is the 1 in 47 chance that you have whenever you’re initially dealt four cards to a Royal Flush. While this only happens once every four hours or so (on average), when it does you can actually feel the big hit coming. However, 1 in 47 is still only 1 in 47 so 46 out of 47 times you’re going to miss. No matter how we twist and turn the probabilities, the fact won’t change that a Royal Flush only happens once on every 40,000th hand.
Do note that all of the above probabilities are based on the game Jacks or Better. If you’re playing with wild cards such as in Joker Poker (this has an extra wild joker) and Deuces Wilds (in this all 2’s are wilds) your chances will obviously be increased.
When Is the Right Time to Draw to a Royal Flush? Here’s the Perfect Strategy!
Playing Video Poker, you will encounter a ton of hands where you get two or more cards to a Royal Flush. For instance, checking the tables that we have listed above, you can see that two cards to a Royal is dealt as often 1 in 13 hands. While you may be tempted to go for the big prize, only a few of these hands should actually be used to go for the Royal if you want to play optimally. To maximize your long-term chances of winning in the game, it is usually much better to break the Royal draw and go for another hand.
To help you out making the right decisions, we have listed all of the possible Royal draw scenarios and mentioned when you should and should not go for the draw. This Royal Flush strategy applies to Jacks and Better only and not to Deuces Wild or Joker Poker.
Please also note that whenever we use the term ‘high pair’ or ‘high cards’, this means a pair of jacks or better or cards that are either jacks or better. Similarly, the term ‘low pair’ or ‘low card’ means a pair of 10’s or worse or cards that are either 10 or lower.
These Are the Hands That You Should Draw to a Royal Flush
- Flush with one card from a Royal (2♥, 10♥, J♥, Q♥, K♥)
- Straight with one card from a Royal (10♥, J♥, Q♠, K♥, A♥)
- High Pair with one card from a Royal (10♥, J♥, Q♥, Q♠, K♥)
- Low Pair with three cards from a Royal (4♠, 10♠, 10♥, Q♥, K♥)
- One card from a flush with two cards from a Royal (2♠, 5♥, 10♥, Q♥, K♥)
- One card from a straight with two cards from a Royal (2♠, 10♠, J♥, Q♥, K♥)
- One card from an inside straight with two high cards to a Royal (2♥, 10♣, J♣, Q♥, A♥)
- Three high cards and two high cards to a Royal (2♠, 4♠, J♣, Q♥, K♥)
- Two cards from a straight flush and two high cards to a Royal (5♠, 6♠, 8♠, K♥, A♥)
These Are the Hands You Should NOT Draw to a Royal Flush
- Straight flush that is already made (9♥, 10♥, J♥, Q♥, K♥)
(keep the straight flush) - Three of a kind with three cards to a Royal (J♥, Q♥, Q♠, Q♣, K♥)
(keep the three of a kind) - Flush with two cards from a Royal (2♥, 6♥, J♥, Q♥, K♥)
(keep the flush) - Straight with two cards from a Royal (10♥, J♥, Q♥, K♠, A♠)
(keep the straight) - Two Pair with two cards from a Royal (10♥, 10♠, J♥, J♠, Q♥)
(keep the two pair) - High Pair with two cards from a Royal (3♠, 10♥, J♥, Q♥, Q♠)
(keep the pair) - One card from a flush with three cards from a royal (2♠, 7♥, 8♥, Q♥, K♥)
(go for the flush) - Low pair with three cards from a royal (3♥, 6♠, 6♣, J♥, Q♥)
(keep the pair) - One card from an outside straight with three cards from a royal (2♣, 9♣, 10♠, J♥, Q♥)
(go for the straight) - Two cards from a straight flush with three cards from a royal (4♣, 5♣, 6♣, J♥, Q♥)
(go for the straight flush) - One card from a high inside straight with three cards from a Royal (7♣, 10♠, J♣, K♥, A♥)
(go for the straight) - Two cards from a straight flush and two cards to a Royal with a 10 included (2♠, 4♠, 7♥, 10♥, J♥)
(go for the straight flush) - Two high cards and two cards to a Royal with a 10 included (4♣, 6♣, 10♥, J♥, Q♠)
(keep the QJ)
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the probability of being dealt a Royal Flush?
What is the probability of getting a Royal Flush in 5-card poker?
Which Video Poker game pays the most for a Royal Flush?
Playing online, Jackpot Poker by Play’n GO pays the most for a Royal Flush. It either pays 1,000 times your stake or a minimum progressive jackpot of £5,000 if playing at the highest coin level.
Is there anything I should know about chasing a Royal Flush in Video Pokers?
Always play with the highest coin level (level 5). This makes a huge difference if you would hit the Royal Flush as you would get paid more than three times as much. Playing with this coin level you usually have to bet a minimum of £1 or £1.25 per hand.
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