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It may seem that playing max coins is just throwing good money after bad. The reality is that these games were made for you to play max coins. If any sort of real profit is going to be made playing video poker you have to play the maximum number. Otherwise you are just following an ebb and flow that will have you slowly losing money to the tune of a long term split between you and machine that is approximately 45/55. If you have any doubt whether you are the one winning the 45% or the 55%, than you probably should not play in a casino.
If you notice it in the table below, all the payouts follow predictable patterns, until you get to the Royal Flush. Hitting the Royal Flush playing only one coin will win the player 250 coins. Not a bad payoff for such a small investment. Each additional coin you play adds 250 to the total. Players putting 4 coins into the machine get a whopping 1000 coins for a Royal Flush. If that pattern carried through to a 5 coin investment, then the player would get 1250 coins back for a win. This is not the case. They give you a bonus for hitting a Royal Flush with 5 coins. Instead of 1250 back, the machine drops 4000 coins when you hit the highest hand playing 5 coins.
This bonus is the carrot that we follow when playing video poker. In less objective evidence, many people have remarked that the games are stingier when playing at lower coin levels. We can't say for sure whether this is true or not, but considering the aim is to get people to play at the maximum coin level, there should be no surprise if the machines pay out more often the player is maxing out their coins.
| | 1 Coin | 2 Coins | 3 Coins | 4 Coins | 5 Coins |
| Royal Flush | 250 | 500 | 750 | 1000 | 4000 |
| Straight Flush | 50 | 100 | 150 | 200 | 250 |
| Four of a Kind | 25 | 50 | 75 | 100 | 125 |
| Full House | 9 | 18 | 27 | 36 | 45 |
| Flush | 6 | 12 | 18 | 24 | 30 |
| Straight | 4 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 20 |
| Three of a Kind | 3 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 15 |
| Two Pair | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 |
| One Pair - Jacks or Better | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
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