Strictly Slots December 2022

Favorite Video Poker Game Once again, all five of your favorite video poker games are from IGT, and you ranked them in the exact order as last year. Also once again, at the top of the list is Double Double Bonus Poker. This is the video poker game that returns big for four Aces and even bigger for four Aces with a kicker. The standard Jacks or Better video draw poker game returns 25 for-1 for any four-of-a-kind hand, or 125 credits at max bet. Double Double Bonus returns 50-for-1 for four 5s through Kings; 80-for-1 for four 2s, 3s or 4s; 160-for-1 for four Aces or four 2s, 3s or 4s with an Ace, 2, 3 or 4 kicker; and a whopping 400-for-1— 2,000 credits at max bet—for four Aces with a 2, 3 or 4 kicker. Coming in second on your video poker list is Triple Double Bonus Poker, another repeat winner. This one adds to the four-of-a kind payoffs of Double Double Bonus—four 2s, 3s or 4s with a kicker of 5 through King pays 80-for-1; and four Aces pays 160-for-1 with a kicker of 5 through King; four 2s, 3s or 4s with an A-4 kicker pays 400-for-1; and four Aces with a kicker pays 800-for-1 like Double Double Bonus. Rounding out the video poker category are Deuces Wild, with all its wild symbols and lucrative quad Deuces payoff; Jokers Wild, the other popular wild-symbol game; and the original Bonus Poker, with its 80-for-1 four Aces payout and a nice, low volatility that keeps you playing.

Favorite Multiplay Game The multi-hand video poker style has injected new life into the genre by adding volatility with multiple hands per game. All of these games have the same basic play—one hand is presented in multiple rows, the dis cards apply to all hands, and the draw cards come from a separate deck for each hand (with the discards removed). As usual, all the favorites are from IGT, and as with standard video poker, your favorites in this genre are ranked exactly as they were last year. Our readers’ favorite in this category is once again Ultimate X Poker, which for a 10-coin-per-hand wager causes multipliers of up to 12X to be applied to

the hand following any winning hand. On multi-hand versions, frequent multipliers can appear on more than one of the hands on each play. Second on the list is Triple Play Poker, the original multi-hand game, with triple hands applied to all of the standard video poker games. Next is Multi Strike Poker, which, on a winning hand, deals a new hand from a fresh deck with double the pay table value on the second rung. Win three times in a row, and the payout is eight times the normal amount. Rounding out the Top 5 in multiplay games are 100 Play Poker, the ultimate multiplay with 100 hands for each play; and Spin Poker, which combines video poker with the spinning reels of a video slot.

❶ Ultimate X, IGT ❷ Triple Play, IGT ❸ Multi Strike Video Poker, IGT

❶ Double Double Bonus Poker, IGT ❷ Triple Double Poker, IGT

❸ Deuces Wild, IGT ❹ Jokers Wild, IGT ❺ Bonus Poker, IGT

❹ 100 X Play, IGT ❺ Spin Poker, IGT

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