Glossary - Terms and Definitions

The payoff card is the table / chart posted on each video poker machine that indicates the amount paid for each winning hand rank and for each coin bet. If you have purchased and installed a CFSPoker.KEY , you can customize the payoff card values distributed with CFSPoker.

Below is the payoff card for the Jacks or Better - Double Bonus game as typically found in Las Vegas.

Jacks or Better - Double Bonus Payoff card

The cursor (red arrow) is located in the title column. The title column is followed by the payoff columns for bets of from 1 to 5 units (coins in a casino).

The payoff for each kind of hand is generally proportional according to the amount wagered on the hand. That is, wagering 1 unit on a Jacks or Better game and making 3 of a Kind pays 3 units. Wagering 5 units and making the same hand results in a payoff of 15 units (5 x 3).

The proportionality of the payoff card is true for all hands except for a Royal Flush, the Jackpot hand. The only other occurrence of this non-proportional payoff is for four Deuces and a Joker which is the primary Jackpot for the Deuces and Joker Wild game. Because of this non-proportional payout, when you are playing for real money the rule is always play it full or don't play it at all.

What this means is that if you are playing one coin each hand on a $1.00 machine, you would be better off moving to a quarter machine and playing five quarters per hand. Your investment per game would only increase from $1.00 to $1.25.

Similarly, if $1.25 is beyond your budget, play five coins on a nickel machine for a total per-hand investment of 25 cents rather than playing one coin on a quarter machine for each hand. By playing a machine at less than the full complement of coins (units in CFSPoker), you are giving the house an advantage they don't deserve.