Video Poker Forum

I have read all the options for playing JB video poker but can not seem to hit many winning hands?

You get paid about 45% of time, break even (high pair) and profit (2 pairs and better), I would say that is a fair occurrence.

Video Poker, even the low variant version, Jacks or Better, is a variant game with highs and lows. Some sessions you will hit many winning hands, some sessions you will hit few if any winning hands, and most sessions are somewhere in between.      If you are putting in, say, $20 a pop playing .25c single line JOB, you will have several sessions of not hitting many winning hands, dare say, some sessions of no winning hands, As you increase session bankroll, so you increase opportunities to hit the winning hands. If your session bankroll is, say, $200 a pop, playing single line .25c JOB, you should hit more winning hands a session, but video poker like life, there are no guarantees. Statistically speaking playing optimum strategy, you should hit a 4 of a kind once in 423 hands, a straight flush once in 9148 hands, and a royal once in 40,390 hands.Good luck to you

It's my favorite game. You supply no info, just a complaint. Don't panic until you have five straight losing sessions. Even then you're just a victim of variance.