|
Latest casino articlesBonus Poker Games by Microgaming Online CasinosMonday March 30th, 2026When you are playing a video poker game that has larger payout variations than the standard four of a kind payouts, like players are used to with Jacks or Better, then you are playing a bonus style video poker game. The Microgaming online casinos software developer presents a few various of bonus poker games along this line. We'll be going over a few select variations below.
For example, if a player arrives at four aces being drawn, then the payout is 400. With four of a kinds ranging from the 2s to the 4s, the payout is 200. From the 5s through to the Ks, the payout reaches 125. For the sake of regularity, any mention of payout amounts discussed herein are based upon bets using all five coins in a hand. Jacks or Better has a straight four of a kind payout of 125. If nothing was done to alter the payout table, it would cause the average payout for the winning hand to be past 100%, which would send any casino out of business. The Bonus Poker game makes up for this downside, by decreasing the payouts when a player gets a full house from 45 down to 40, and flushes from 30 down to 25. These tweaks on the paylines of these two hands result in easy payouts of the bonuses when four of a kind multiple paylines are hit. A new player might not see this as a big deal, but if they realized that both the flush and the full house happen more than 2% of all winning hands, and that four of a kinds are lucky to happen less than 0.2% of the time, they would realize the significance of these tweaks. To see it more clearly, think that with Bonus Poker, as opposed to the standard Jacks or Better, the player might be a little worse off most of the time, when they hit the wins, they hit it big time. Next in Microgaming Online Casinos' lineup of bonus poker games take this last statement in mind and enhance it. Double Bonus Poker is as its name implies. With the same paylines as the regular Bonus Poker, the payouts are doubled for all four of a kind along the multiple paylines. As with the above payout examples, four aces yields 800, four 2s to 4s bring in 400, and 5s to Ks 250. If the route to tweak the other paylines like the flush and full house were to follow the doubling philosphy, no one would want to play the game, so Double Bonus Poker goes a new way with their payout tweaking. It goes after the pairs, paying out from ten down to five. This is because two pairs happen 13% out of all winning hands, so the decrease in this area makes up for the four of a kind payouts. This makes it necessary, even attractive, therefore, to bump the payout bonus for the flush from 30 up to 35. Last in the bonus poker games from Microgaming online casinos is the aptly named "Double Double Bonus" video poker. Here, two more paylines are put into the game, which makes four aces, and an additional fifth card cough up a huge payout of 2000. All the remaining four aces without fifth cards give the same 800 as the Double Bonus game. If the range of 2s to 4s have a fifth card that happens to be an ace, then the payout is 800. Every remaining 2s to 4s (no fifth card played in the winning hand) yield 400. Tweaking again must be done with the Double Double bonus video poker payout, to prevent wiping out the house, so the flush is tweaked to 30 and the straight is dropped down to 20.
|
|
The easiest of the bonus games from Microgaming online casinos is the Bonus Poker. With this game the four of a kind payout is divided up into three separate paylines with improved payouts overall.
