Is this Deuces Wild game played for real money?

No. The table uses play chips that have no value, cannot be bought, and cannot be cashed out or exchanged for anything. If you run out, you are handed another stack for free. There is no account and nothing to download.

How do wild deuces change which cards to hold?

They move the whole pay table up, so the cheap hands stop being worth chasing. A high pair pays nothing, so there is no reason to keep an ace or a king on its own. Two pair pays nothing either: on this pay table you hold both pairs and draw one card at the full house. A deuce is always held, and with three deuces the best play is often to throw away everything else, even a made four of a kind, and draw at the fourth deuce or five of a kind.

Can perfect play beat this machine?

No. With every hold played correctly, this pay table returns 99.73% of the chips bet, a house edge of 0.27%. That is a good return for a casino game and it is still below 100%. Of the other schedules the calculator carries, the short ones return as little as 98.91%, whatever you hold.

Why do most sessions still lose chips?

Because the return is carried by hands that rarely arrive. Four deuces are worth 3.7 points of the 99.73% and come about once in 5,400 hands, and the natural royal about once in 43,000. About 56% of hands pay nothing at all. In a session without the big hands, which is most sessions, the game returns well under its headline figure.

Free Deuces Wild Video Poker

Every two is wild, the chips are worth nothing, and every hold is checked against the exact best one.

Play chips

1,000

No real money, no prizes, nothing to buy.

NSUD Deuces Wild · pays for a bet of 25
Natural royal flush	20,000
Four deuces	5,000
Wild royal flush	625
Five of a kind	400
Straight flush	250
Four of a kind	100
Full house	100
Flush	75
Straight	50
Three of a kind	25

Pick a bet and deal.

Session coach

Coach me as I play

Last round

Nothing played yet. After each of your hands the coach says what the round cost and what decided it.

Decide the cost before you start

Gambling is entertainment with a price, like a concert ticket. The useful question is not how much you might win but how much the evening is allowed to cost. Pick that number first, and treat reaching it as the end of the session. You can set one below and the coach will hold you to it.

Next bet

25 chips at a 0.27% house edge: an expected cost of 0.1 chips.

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Hold coach

Every hand has 32 ways to hold it, and one of them returns the most on average. After each draw the coach tells you which, worked out exactly from the 47 cards you could not see, with every two counted as wild.

Outline the best hold before I draw

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This session

Hands played: 0
Best holds: None yet
Net chips: 0
Expected with best holds: 0

This machine returns 99.73% of the chips bet when every hold is the best one, a house edge of 0.27%. Almost all of a short session is luck: four deuces alone is 3.7 points of that return and arrives about once in 5,400 hands.

Built by Alexander Korsager · last updated October 3, 2026 · corrections

Returned with every hold played right: 99.73%
House edge that best play still leaves: 0.27%
Hands that pay nothing at all, about: 56%
Hands for one set of four deuces, on average: 5,400

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A machine where the twos change every hold

In Deuces Wild the four twos stand for any card you need.

That makes strong hands far more common than at Jacks or Better, so the pay table starts higher up: nothing pays below three of a kind, and a pair of aces is worth exactly as much as a pair of fours, which is nothing. The habits that are right at Jacks or Better are wrong here. You never hold a high card for its own sake, two pair is only a draw at a full house, and a deuce is never thrown away.

What the coach holds when the twos are wild

An ace and a king, no deuce
Pays nothing as dealt
- Not held
- Not held
- Not held
- Not held
- Not held
Best hold: nothing, five new cards
Two pair
Pays nothing as dealt
- Held
- Held
- Held
- Held
- Not held
Best hold: 9♠ 9♥ 5♦ 5♣
One deuce and four odd cards
Pays nothing as dealt
- WildHeld
- Not held
- Not held
- Not held
- Not held
Best hold: 2♥

Each best hold is found by drawing every possible replacement on the NSUD pay table, the way the coach does at the table above.

After each draw the coach shows the best hold for the hand you were dealt and, if yours was different, how many chips the difference costs on average.

That figure is worked out exactly, by drawing every possible replacement from the 47 cards you could not see and reading each result with the twos wild. The 99.73% return quoted for this pay table assumes every single hold is the best one. Each hold that is not comes straight off it.

Three deuces, dealt as four of a kind

WildHeld
WildHeld
WildHeld
Not held
Not held

Hold 2♠ 2♥ 2♦1,441.10
The best hold of this hand
Hold 2♠ 2♥ 2♦ K♣1,085.10
Gives up 356 chips on average
Hold 2♠ 2♥ 2♦ K♣ 7♥400
Gives up 1,041.10 chips on average

Chips back on average on a 100-chip bet, from every possible draw with the twos wild. Keeping all five cards takes the 4 for each chip that the dealt hand already pays.

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Rules at this table

NSUD Deuces Wild pay table

Hand	Pays per chip	Points of the return
Natural royal flush	800	1.8
Four deuces	200	3.7
Wild royal flush	25	4.8
Five of a kind	16	5.0
Straight flush	10	5.1
Four of a kind	4	24.4
Full house	4	10.4
Flush	3	6.2
Straight	2	11.5
Three of a kind	1	26.7

Points are each hand's share of the 99.73% return with every hold played right: how often the hand arrives, times what it pays.

One standard 52-card deck, shuffled fresh for every hand.
All four twos are wild: each one counts as whichever card makes the best hand. They are tagged Wild on the table.
You are dealt five cards, hold any of them, and the rest are replaced once.
Three of a kind is the lowest hand that pays, at 1 for each chip bet. Pairs and two pair pay nothing.
This is the schedule known as NSUD, short for "Not So Ugly Ducks": five of a kind pays 16, a straight flush 10, and four of a kind and a full house 4 each, for each chip bet.
Four deuces pay 200 and a natural royal flush, one made with no deuce, pays 800. A royal flush that uses a deuce pays 25.
Bets are 5, 25, 50, 100 chips a hand.
1 to 5
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FAQ

Is this Deuces Wild game played for real money?: No. The table uses play chips that have no value, cannot be bought, and cannot be cashed out or exchanged for anything. If you run out, you are handed another stack for free. There is no account and nothing to download.
How do wild deuces change which cards to hold?: They move the whole pay table up, so the cheap hands stop being worth chasing. A high pair pays nothing, so there is no reason to keep an ace or a king on its own. Two pair pays nothing either: on this pay table you hold both pairs and draw one card at the full house. A deuce is always held, and with three deuces the best play is often to throw away everything else, even a made four of a kind, and draw at the fourth deuce or five of a kind.
Can perfect play beat this machine?: No. With every hold played correctly, this pay table returns 99.73% of the chips bet, a house edge of 0.27%. That is a good return for a casino game and it is still below 100%. Of the other schedules the calculator carries, the short ones return as little as 98.91%, whatever you hold.
Why do most sessions still lose chips?: Because the return is carried by hands that rarely arrive. Four deuces are worth 3.7 points of the 99.73% and come about once in 5,400 hands, and the natural royal about once in 43,000. About 56% of hands pay nothing at all. In a session without the big hands, which is most sessions, the game returns well under its headline figure.

How this game works

Each hand is dealt from one 52-card deck shuffled in your browser so that every ordering is equally likely. Hands are classified and paid by the same code the Deuces Wild calculator uses, on its NSUD schedule.

The coach prices all 32 holds of a dealt hand by full enumeration of the remaining 47 cards, with no sampling and no rounding, resolving every deuce to the best hand it can make. The 99.73% return and the hand frequencies are read from that calculator's solved game, which applies the same enumeration to every one of the 2,598,960 possible deals.

The expected figure in the session panel is the house edge under best play multiplied by the chips you have bet. What your own holds gave up is reported separately, so the cost of the machine and the cost of mistakes are never mixed.

Limits

The best hold maximizes the average return. It is not the hold most likely to win this hand, and the two often differ.
Real machines pay the top natural royal rate only at the maximum bet. This table pays that rate at every bet size.
Richer pay tables exist and are rare: the calculator's full pay schedule returns 100.76% under best play. Which holds are best depends on the pay table, so the coach here is right for this one.
Play chips do not feel like money. The long gaps between big hands are harder to sit through with a real stake.

This is a practice game for adults. It has no real-money play and links to none. Deuces Wild played for money has a house edge on this pay table even when every hold is perfect, and practice only brings you closer to that edge, never past it.

Gambling can cause serious harm. The National Problem Gambling Helpline is free, confidential and open 24/7, call or text 1-800-MY-RESET (1-800-697-3738), or chat at ncpgambling.org/chat.

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