Applying the optimal strategies while playing is minimizing casino advantages on the particular game. When Jacks or Better is concerned, it means that calculated payout is approximately 99.54%, when appropriate strategy is applied.
Learning the optimal strategies is essential for successful playing and, although they may seem difficult in the beginning, there is nothing very complicated about them. The main thing is to calculate the odds for getting the highest possible payouts, and the rules are different for different versions, but, in general, the main principle can be applied on any of them.
- If you have four cards to the Royal Flush, you should keep them. Beside the Royal Flush, you may get straight flush, straight or flush, also.
- If you have four cards to straight flush, you should keep them, cause you can also get straight or flush.
- You should also keep three cards to straight flush, or two cards to Royal Flush, if you have no better ones.
- Hold on to two pairs or four cards to flush
- Keep high pairs – payout pairs are Jacks or better
- Keep high cards and discard the others
