Originally Posted by
devidee
I found a good app (only available on the iphone) for learning how to play perfect video poker. The app is called WinPoker. It's expensive as far as apps go at $10 but definitely worth it if you enjoy playing video poker.
I'm fairly confident that with 2-3 months working with this app I'll be able to go pro.
(I saw it posted on Vegas Chatter)
Does it have all of the variations like deuces wild, double bonus, double double bonus, etc?
I'm assuming it does if they're charging $10 for it.
Not sure if the app teaches this, but you also need the proper payouts in order to play +EV or near-even-EV video poker.
Usually the payouts to look at are the flush and full house.
In Jacks or Better, you're looking at 6x your bet for a flush and 9x for a full house. This goes along with the standard 1x for Jacks or better, 2x for 2 pair, 3x for 3 of a kind, 4x for a straight, 25x for four of a kind, 50x for a straight flush, and 4000x for a royal flush (with max coin-in)
The machine described above is a "6-9" machine, referring to the flush-full house payouts, and that is +EV with perfect play and comps. (It's slightly -EV without comps.)
If they downgrade your flush/full house to 5-9, it's -EV, but not by that much.
If they downgrade below that (5-8 is very standard, and some go as low as 5-6), it's very -EV.