Free Double Bonus Video Poker
Four of a kind paid by rank, two pair cut to even money, and every hold checked against the exact best one.
Play chips
1,000
No real money, no prizes, nothing to buy.
| Royal flush | 20,000 |
|---|---|
| Straight flush | 1,250 |
| Four aces | 4,000 |
| Four 2s, 3s or 4s | 2,000 |
| Four 5s through kings | 1,250 |
| Full house | 225 |
| Flush | 175 |
| Straight | 125 |
| Three of a kind | 75 |
| Two pair | 25 |
| Jacks or better | 25 |
Pick a bet and deal.
Session coach
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 0.89% house edge: an expected cost of 0.2 chips.
- Hands played
- 0
- Chips bet in total
- 0
- Bets raised after a loss
- 0
Where the result came from
- House edge, on average
- 0
- Decisions on strategy
- None yet
- Your off-strategy plays
- 0
- Luck
- 0
- Result
- 0
The report fills in as you play. Price a Double Bonus pay table row by row
Set a session limit
Your leaks
None recorded. A spot you play off the best strategy is listed here so you can practise it, and drops off once you get it right three times running. The list is kept in this browser only.
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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, on this pay table and no other.
This session
- Hands played
- 0
- Best holds
- None yet
- Net chips
- 0
- Expected with best holds
- 0
This machine returns 99.11% of the chips bet when every hold is the best one, a house edge of 0.89%. Almost all of a short session is luck: the royal flush alone is 1.7 points of that return and arrives about once in 48,000 hands.
Built by Alexander Korsager · last updated October 3, 2026 · corrections
- Returned with every hold played right
- 99.11%
- House edge that best play still leaves
- 0.89%
- Paid for each chip bet on four aces
- 160
- Hands for one four of a kind, on average
- 430
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A machine that moves the weight to four of a kind
Double Bonus is Jacks or Better with the weight moved to the top of the pay table.
Four of a kind pays by rank: 160 for aces, 80 for twos, threes and fours, and 50 for everything else, for each chip bet. Two pair pays for it by dropping to 1, the same as a pair of jacks. That one trade changes which holds are right. Three aces are worth more than a full house that contains them, and a low pair is worth less than four cards to a flush or an open straight.
A full house with three aces in it
Full house as dealt, which pays 9 for each chip bet
- Held
- Held
- Held
- Not held
- Not held
Best hold: A♠ A♥ A♦
A low pair, and four cards to a flush
Pays nothing as dealt
- Held
- Held
- Held
- Held
- Not held
Best hold: 6♥ 9♥ 4♥ J♥
A low pair, and four to an open straight
Pays nothing as dealt
- Held
- Held
- Held
- Held
- Not held
Best hold: 7♠ 8♦ 9♣ 10♥
Each best hold is found by drawing every possible replacement on the 9/7 Double Bonus 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. The 99.11% return quoted for this pay table assumes every single hold is the best one. Each hold that is not comes straight off it.
- Held
- Held
- Not held
- Not held
- Not held
- Hold A♠ A♥175.30
The best hold of this hand
- Hold A♠ A♥ 8♦ 8♣168.10
Gives up 7.20 chips on average
- Hold 8♦ 8♣73.70
Gives up 101.60 chips on average
Chips back on average on a 100-chip bet, from every possible draw. The dealt hand pays 1 for each chip, which returns the bet and no more.
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Rules at this table
| Hand | Pays per chip | Points of the return |
|---|---|---|
| Royal flush | 800 | 1.7 |
| Straight flush | 50 | 0.6 |
| Four aces | 160 | 3.5 |
| Four 2s, 3s or 4s | 80 | 4.2 |
| Four 5s through kings | 50 | 8.0 |
| Full house | 9 | 9.6 |
| Flush | 7 | 10.7 |
| Straight | 5 | 7.5 |
| Three of a kind | 3 | 21.9 |
| Two pair | 1 | 11.9 |
| Jacks or better | 1 | 19.7 |
Points are each hand's share of the 99.11% 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. There are no wild cards.
- You are dealt five cards, hold any of them, and the rest are replaced once.
- The final hand is paid by the table: a pair of jacks or better is the lowest hand that pays.
- The pay table is 9/7 Double Bonus: a full house pays 9, a flush 7 and a straight 5. Two pair pays 1, which returns the bet and no more.
- A royal flush pays 800 for each chip bet, the rate a real machine pays at its maximum bet.
- Bets are 5, 25, 50, 100 chips a hand.
- 1 to 5
- Hold or release a card
- Enter
- Deal or draw
FAQ
- Is this Double Bonus 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 the bonus payouts change which cards to hold?
- Mostly around aces and low pairs. A full house made of three aces and a pair pays 9, and holding only the three aces is worth more on average, because the fourth ace pays 160. With two pair worth only the bet, a low pair loses to four cards to a flush, and to four to a straight that is open at both ends. The coach prices each of these on the hand in front of you, so you do not have to carry the rules.
- Can perfect play beat this machine?
- No. With every hold played correctly, 9/7 Double Bonus returns 99.11% of the chips bet, a house edge of 0.89%. That is below 100%, and many machines pay less: 9/6 returns 97.81%, whatever you hold.
- Why does this game swing harder than Jacks or Better?
- Because more of the return sits in hands that rarely arrive. Four of a kind comes about once in 430 hands and carries 15.7 points of the 99.11%, and the royal flush, about once in 48,000 hands, carries another 1.7. Two pair, the hand that steadies a Jacks or Better session, only returns the bet here. Between the big hands the balance falls faster.
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 video poker return calculator uses, on its 9/7 Double Bonus 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. The 99.11% 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 royal flush rate only at the maximum bet. This table pays that rate at every bet size.
- A richer pay table exists and is rare: 10/7 Double Bonus returns 100.17% 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. Double Bonus 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.
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