Double Bonus Video Poker
By Playa for JoeCasino.com · December 5, 2009
When you hear that the geniuses at Microgaming have developed a further variation on Bonus Video Poker, imaginatively titled Double Bonus Video Poker, you can almost hear the video poker players of the world gritting their teeth in determination to face this new challenge.
Double Bonus Video Poker stretches the wire to new limits for players testing their desires to push the odds out a little further and see how far they can stretch their luck and test their skills, as well as their hand.
Before setting off on the roller coaster ride that Double Bonus Video Poker has to be, things start pretty quietly with a standard “hand” poker hand being dealt, and each player places five ante bets which usually range from 50 cents to five dollars. Although a player sits down at a Double Bonus Video Poker machine or clicks on a link online it doesn’t mean that the player has to play every hand with the goal to hit a double bonus, or even one of them. The game simply provides the player to assess the odds of making a better hand from his existing one. The odds at Double Bonus Video Poker have been very finely tuned so that an experienced player with a feeling for percentage and probabilities will be tempted to decide if it is odds-worthy to settle for a lower hand with a mediocre payout or to push for a much higher hand with a much higher bonus level payout.
Because of the increased eventualities of making a hand, the payouts at Double Bonus Poker are much higher at the top level than they are for more conventional video poker games. On the other hand, payouts for lower level hands such as three of a kind or a pair are much lower. While not many video poker players will admit it, they know that they have chosen to play Double Bonus Poker because they love to hit those big bonus payouts.
As ever, a Royal Flush pays highest at 800-1 over five coins, while Four Aces will pay 160 to one, and a straight flush 50-1. On the lower scale Jacks or better pay just even money, and three of a kind 3-1. With these odds it is very understandable that players would want to push upward for glory.
Double Bonus Poker seems to be more popular among online players than the casino crowd. The software is first class and the odds work more in favor of the player, who may need the heart of a lion to jeopardize a guaranteed winning so as to earn a little more of either adrenalin or money or possibly both.
