How to Play Fever Aces Poker Video Poker

Fever Aces Poker video poker gives you a chance for some serious bonuses if you can gather a lot of aces into your hands. At least three aces after the draw gives you a bonus round where you’ll play eight free hands. During those hands, you’ll have a multiplier in place that’s as high as five times.

For those gamblers who understand the importance of high payback and fast-paced action, video poker ranks extremely high on their list of games to play. That’s the case whether they play in casinos or on online gambling sites offering video poker. Video poker basically presents an extremely gambler-friendly experience.

In terms of the types of video poker available to you, you can choose to keep it simple by playing games like Jacks or Better. Jacks or Better is the most basic format of the game and still the most popular.

Fever Aces Poker video poker is just an offshoot of Jacks or Better.

But Fever Aces Poker video poker provides a special feature that you can’t find on Jacks or Better or other basic games. And it does this without requiring an extra wager from you. That’s unusual among games with special features.

The gist of the Fever Aces Poker video poker special features is that you’ll receive a bonus any time you have three aces or more in your hand after the draw. If you do, you’ll get to pick a multiplier amount that’s hidden beneath one of five cards.

Whatever the amount of that multiplier is when you pick the card, that’s what will be applied to a so-called “Fever Round.” This Fever Round consists of eight free hands of video poker. During this round, you can also achieve the bonus once again when you get another hand of three aces of more.

This Fever Round pays off in a couple of ways. First of all, having free hands of video poker means you’ll be earning payback for any hand you win and not losing anything from bets. Anything you win during this span is all profit.

In addition, the multipliers applied to these free hands make them even more valuable. Even the minimum multiplier amount of 2x will double all your winnings. By the time you finish a Fever Round, your bankroll will most likely have risen significantly.

The Fever Round probably makes Fever Aces Poker video poker seem like a pretty sweet deal. Games with special features have to balance out the advantages. As we said earlier, many of these variants require an extra bet, but that’s not the case here.

Instead, Fever Aces Poker video poker makes up for the free special feature by downgrading the payback of many winning hands compared to other video poker pay tables. The hands they’ve downgraded are the common ones. As a result, you’ll need Fever Rounds to come up often.

In the following article, we’ll explain the ins and outs of the game known as Fever Aces Poker video poker. We’ll show you how it compares to basic video poker and how the special feature works. And we’ll also explain how to play with perfect strategy while taking a look at the available pay tables.

Why You Should Be Playing Video Poker

Fever Aces Poker video poker is just one of many variations of video poker you’ll find at your local casino or as part of a top gambling website. Video poker is so popular that game makers are excited to create new and exciting twists on the familiar format. And that variety, as you’ll see, is just one of the many perks of video poker.

If you ever speak to someone who is a regular video poker player, they’ll likely be able to recite to you all of the ways their favorite game outdistances other games in the casino. In fact, many of those folks play video poker only and nothing else.

Why? Well, video poker takes the most beneficial aspects of table games and slot machines and combines them into one game. Let’s take a look at all the ways that it accomplishes this.

• When you play video poker, you are the only one at the machine. It affords you great privacy. And it also takes the pressure off if you’re new to the game.
• As we said above, variety is one of the hallmarks of video poker. If you’re not crazy about Fever Aces Poker video poker or some other specific version of the game, there are hundreds more for you to choose from. You just have to choose the one that suits you the best.
• Even for beginners, video poker is extremely easy to play. Those who have a little bit of a background in poker hands will get it even faster. Very few casino games can boast this kind of ease of play.
• You get to use strategy when you’re playing video poker. This is the main characteristic of video poker that separates it from slot machines, where there is no strategy involved. With strategy as part of the equation, you actually have the chance to make an impact on gameplay.
• Transparency, in terms of payback and potential to win, isn’t always evident in casino games. But it is in video poker. You can thank the unchanging probabilities and the pay tables for that, because everything you need to know is right in front of you.
• If you think of gambling as an investment, video poker is one of the better ones available to you. Expected payback for video poker stands above what you would expect from slot machines. There are even some video poker games which outrank table games, which are much more complex to play, in this department.
• Online casinos have become more and more prevalent over the last decade or so. Video poker might make the smoothest transition of all from playing at a machine in the casino to playing online at a top gambling website. You won’t be able to tell a difference between the two.

Hopefully, you now have an idea why video poker makes for such a great game. We’ll talk in a little bit about what’s special about Fever Aces Poker video poker. But first, you should make sure you know how to play a hand of basic video poker.

How to Play a Hand of Video Poker

Step 1: Start Your Bankroll

To begin a bankroll, you just have to put money into the available slot on a video poker machine. Or, if you’re playing online, you’ll create a gambling account at the website you’ve chosen. In either case, the bankroll is necessary so that you can make your wagers and win money in return.

Even though you’ll see a reference to the monetary value you’ve entered on screen, the most important number is the number of credits or coins that you have to play. Each coin or credit will be equal to the denomination of the game you’re playing. For example, at a five-cent machine, one credit equals five cents, two credits equal 10 cents, and so on.

Step 2: Make Your Bet

Your wager in video poker is actually an important part of your strategy. Fever Aces Poker video poker is like most basic video poker games in that it gives you the choice of betting anywhere from one through five credits (in one-credit increments). It’s up to you if you want to change the bet each hand or not.

Changing the bet is a common mistake, however. To maximize your potential winnings on a video poker game like Fever Aces Poker video poker, you should bet five credits at all times. This is the max bet.

The max bet drastically changes the payback for the royal flush, which is the most lucrative winning combination in all of video poker. At one through four credits wagered, the royal flush returns payback of 250 to 1 to the player. But that number rises to a minimum of 800 to 1 when you hit the royal flush on a hand where you bet five credits.

You might think that the royal flush is so rare that worrying about hitting it is a waste of time. But you’ll be upset if you do manage it and you haven’t used the max bet. Don’t make that mistake.

Step 3: Play Your Hand

A hand of video poker plays out in the same manner as a hand of the card game called Five-Card Draw. In Five-Card Draw, you’re trying to make the best possible poker hand out of a five-card deal and a draw. The draw replaces cards from the deal that you didn’t want and discarded.

Video poker works the same way in terms of the rhythm of play. But keep in mind that video poker is only a one-person game. There’s no need to beat everybody at the table.

All you have to do to win money in return for your wager is to form one of the winning combinations on the pay table. Here are the paying hands to be found on a Fever Aces Poker video poker machine or online game.

• Pair of jacks or better
• Two pair
• Three of a kind
• Straight (five cards of consecutive rank, like 3-4-5-6-7)
• Flush (five cards of same suit)
• Full house (three of a kind and two pair in the same hand)
• Four of a kind
• Straight flush (straight with five cards of same suit)
• Royal flush (ten, jack, queen, king, and ace of the same suit)

If you’re aware at all of how poker hands are formed, you’ll probably realize that the hands at the top of the list aren’t that uncommon. But as you move down the list, you’ll see the hands that are extremely difficult to achieve. Video poker games tend to pay back more for rare hands than for common ones.

The hand begins when you make your bet and hit the “deal” button. Five cards that come from a simulated 52-card standard deck will show up on the screen. This deal is completely random thanks to the software of the machine.

You’ll assess the deal for possible winning combinations. If you get really lucky, you might have a winning combination on the deal. But even if that isn’t the case, you have the draw waiting for you.

The draw takes place after you decide which cards you’re going to hold and which you’re going to discard. Held cards become a part of your final hand. You’ll draw new cards from the deck to replace any discarded cards to round out your final five-card hand.

The draw deck contains 47 cards. That’s because the five cards that you were dealt are left out from the original 52. You have no chance of drawing a discarded card back into your final hand.

How do you make your decisions about what to hold and discard? Well, let’s tale a look at a sample deal as an example.

When you compare this deal to the list above, you’ll see that you don’t have any winning combinations right off the bat. You’ll have to decide which cards you should hold to try to make a winning hand. But you should also be thinking about what the payback will be for potential winning hands.

For instance, holding on to the pair of sixes is one way to go. You would be drawing three cards in this scenario. And, with some luck, you could end up with winning hands like two pair, three of a kind, a full house, or four of a kind.

You might notice that the deal contains four hearts. Getting one more heart on the draw, after discarding the six of spades, would give you a flush. It offers solid payback, but it’s the only possible winning hand you could end up with if you choose that route.

Finally, you could decide to hold on to the six, seven, and eight of hearts. This would open the door to most of the winning hands on the pay table, including the lucrative straight flush. But this choice means getting two cards on the draw that are just what you need.

When we get to the strategy section below, we’ll talk about how you can learn to make the right choices on tough hands like this one. Once you’ve made your decision, all you have to do is press the buttons underneath the cards you’re planning to hold. Then, hit the “draw” button to complete the hand.

Any winnings from the hand will be added to your bankroll at this time. Your bet is deducted the moment you activate the deal.

You can continue to play video poker in this manner as long as you have sufficient funds in your bankrolls to cover a bet. If you want to keep playing, simply repeat the steps to play out each subsequent hand. Another option is to cash out and redeem the credits you have in your bankroll.

That’s how basic video poker works. Having that knowledge should set you up to play Fever Aces Poker video poker with no trouble.

Fever Aces Poker Bonuses

As we said above, Fever Aces Poker video poker game play is pretty much the same as any basic video poker game. There’s no change in the way that hands are formed.

The change comes when you end up with certain winning hands. Those hands have to include at least three aces. Here are the qualifying hands.

• Three aces
• A full house with three aces
• Four aces

When you end up with one of these winning hands, you’ll see five cards appear on the screen face down. Only in this case, the cards will each contain a different multiplier amount on their faces.

Possible multipliers that are found on these cards include the following:

• 2x
• 4x
• 5x

You’ll choose one of these five cards to turn over. Whichever multiplier amount is on the face of the card you turn over will be your multiplier.

According to the rules found on the Fever Aces Poker video poker machine, you don’t have an equal chance at all four different multipliers. Instead, the multipliers will be weighted so that your chances are as follows:

• 3x = 50%
• 2x = 20%
• 4x = 20%
• 5x = 10%

Once you’ve made your choice and reveal your Fever Aces Poker video poker multiplier, you’ll begin playing eight free hands. That means you don’t have to make wagers during this period. You’ll be paid back at the level of your original wager, which is another reason you should be making the max bet.

The free hands will be attached to the multiplier you turned over. How do multipliers work? Whatever you would have normally won in a hand, that total is multiplied by the specified amount.

For example, imagine that you have a 4x multiplier in place. You end up with a hand that normally pays 15 coins. Instead, you’ll receive 60 coins, which is what you get when you multiply 15 by 4.

How much advantage does this so-called Fever Round pay off for you? Let’s take an example.

Imagine that you’re playing a max bet on a normal video poker machine and, after eight hands, you’ve won payback of 40 coins. Remember that you also had to bet five coins per hand, which also totals 40 coins.

In other words, you ended up breaking even. Now, let’s see what happens in a Fever Round with a 3x multiplier in place. Your 40 coins for those eight hands are multiplied by 3, giving you 120 coins.

Keep in mind as well that these were free hands. You don’t have to deduct any wagers. The 120 coins are all profit.

In other words, your results in terms of the hands you achieved were the same, but the Fever Round provided you with 120 coins more in that span than the normal round. This example shows you what Fever Aces Poker video poker can do for you as a player.

Here are some other notes on the Fever Aces Poker video poker special feature.

• You can activate a new Fever Round only once while you’re in the midst of the free hands. When you get the qualifying hand in the Fever Round, you’ll draw immediately for the multiplier amount. And the free hands with that multiplier will begin at the conclusion of the current right-hand run.
• You can only play eight Fever Rounds in a row. During the eighth consecutive run of eight free hands, you won’t be eligible for another Fever Round directly following it. But once you get back into normal play, you can once again earn the Fever Round and start the cycle over.

Fever Aces Poker Video Poker Pay Tables

Smart video poker players locate the pay tables before they ever begin play. After all, pay tables will help you play the game with proper strategy. They’ll even show you how much you can expect to win from the machine or online game you’re playing during an average session.

As we said above, Fever Aces Poker video poker contains a special feature but requires no extra wager to access that feature. The pay table is adjusted accordingly to account for this.

Let’s take a look at the full-pay pay table for Fever Aces Poker video poker. This is the version of the game that offers the highest overall payback percentage.

Coins/Hand	1 Coin	2 Coins	3 Coins	4 Coins	5 Coins
Royal flush	250	500	750	1,000	4,000
Straight flush	50	100	150	200	250
Four aces	160	320	480	640	800
Four of a kind	50	100	150	200	250
Full house	7	14	21	28	35
Flush	5	10	15	20	25
Straight	4	8	12	16	20
Three of a kind	2	4	6	8	10
Two pairs	1	2	3	4	5
Jacks or better	1	2	3	4	5

If you’re a novice player, you might not know what to make of that pay table without some context to make it clear. To that end, we’ll show you a pay table that is structured similarly to Fever Aces Poker video poker but features different payback amounts. Here is the full-pay table for Jacks or Better.

Jacks or Better Pay Table

Coins/Hand	1 Coin	2 Coins	3 Coins	4 Coins	5 Coins
Royal flush	250	500	750	1,000	4,000
Straight flush	50	100	150	200	250
Four of a kind	25	50	75	100	125
Full house	9	18	27	36	45
Flush	6	12	18	24	30
Straight	4	8	12	16	20
Three of a kind	3	6	9	12	15
Two pairs	2	4	6	8	10
Jacks or better	1	2	3	4	5

Comparing the two, you’ll see that the Fever Aces Poker video poker has a few advantages over the Jacks or Better version. The most prominent comes in terms of the royal flush, which pays off even higher on the Fever Aces Poker table than it does in most other games.

In addition, the Fever Aces Poker video poker table features a higher payoff for four of a kind. Finally, it contains a special, significant payoff for four aces. When you consider that the Fever Round will also be activated by this hand, you can probably tell how valuable quad aces can be.

Once you move down the pay table to the more common hands during video poker play, Jacks or Better has a huge advantage. Take a look at the table which illustrates this point.

Hand	Jacks or Better	Fever Aces Poker
Full house	9 to 1	7 to 1
Flush	6 to 1	5 to 1
Straight	4 to 1	4 to 1
Three of a kind	3 to 1	2 to 1
Two pair	2 to 1	Even money

What makes this even more problematic for those playing Fever Aces Poker video poker is that these are the hands that will come up often during game play. As a result, you’ll be taking a little bit of a hit whenever you make one of these hands.

Because of this, Fever Aces Poker video poker is considered to be a volatile game. The lowered payoffs for common hands will cause your bankroll to suffer bigger slumps than it might playing Jacks or Better. You’ll have to make sure your bankroll is sturdy enough to handle this.

On the other hand, Fever Aces Poker video poker can also bring you much higher payback in a short period of time than Jacks or Better. The Fever Round will be responsible for this. We showed you with the example above how even an average Fever Round can give your bankroll an immediate, massive boost.

The fact that the game is volatile might not scare you off. After all, you might be more concerned with winning a jackpot than you are with grinding out winnings over a long time. If that’s the case, Fever Aces Poker video poker could be just what you’re seeking.

But if you’re hoping to play video poker for a long session on a short bankroll, Fever Aces Poker video poker could give you problems. Unless you’re lucky enough to activate a Fever Round early in your session, you could lose your whole bankroll quite quickly.

The pay table above is the best pay table available for Fever Aces Poker video poker. Here are a few others you might encounter. If you do, you’ll be looking at a lower expected payback than if you were playing the one above:

Coins/Hand	1 Coin	2 Coins	3 Coins	4 Coins	5 Coins
Royal flush	250	500	750	1,000	4,000
Straight flush	50	100	150	200	250
Four aces	160	320	480	640	800
Four of a kind	50	100	150	200	250
Full house	6	12	18	24	30
Flush	5	10	15	20	25
Straight	4	8	12	16	20
Three of a kind	2	4	6	8	10
Two pairs	1	2	3	4	5
Jacks or better	1	2	3	4	5

Coins/Hand	1 Coin	2 Coins	3 Coins	4 Coins	5 Coins
Royal flush	250	500	750	1,000	4,000
Straight flush	50	100	150	200	250
Four aces	120	240	360	480	600
Four of a kind	50	100	150	200	250
Full house	7	14	21	28	35
Flush	5	10	15	20	25
Straight	4	8	12	16	20
Three of a kind	2	4	6	8	10
Two pairs	1	2	3	4	5
Jacks or better	1	2	3	4	5

Payback Percentage for Fever Aces Poker Video Poker

If you’re going to play a video poker game with regularity, you should always be aware of the payback percentage. It’s a measurement of how much you can expect to return from your original bankroll. Payback percentage is computed by combining the probability of making winning hands with the payback for those hands.

In the case of Fever Aces Poker video poker, your payback for the full pay version of the game sits at around 98%. If you had a hypothetical bankroll of $1,000 to begin and bet all of it on hands of this game, you could expect to walk away with around $980 still remaining. You’d be looking at a loss of $20.

Such short sessions would be governed more by luck than anything else. Once you start playing Fever Aces Poker video poker for thousands and thousands of hands, luck would even out. And the 98% payback could be expected to hold sway.

Normally, we recommend video poker games that offer payback of 99% or higher. Even though you’d still be expected to lose a small percentage on average, it’s an amount that you can overcome with rewards for frequent play from casinos and top gambling websites. You could possibly make a profit over the long haul and eliminate the house edge.

You probably won’t have that chance when playing Fever Aces Poker video poker over a long period of time. But you might be able to strike in the short term with the Fever Round to give yourself a nice profit.

Strategy for Fever Aces Poker Video Poker

Playing any video poker game for real money with perfect strategy requires making the right decisions every single time about what cards to hold and what to discard. Any mistakes will lower your expected payback percentage. And that’s something you should try to avoid.

When it comes to the right decisions in video poker, we mean the mathematically correct decisions. In every deal, there are 32 combinations of holds and discards which could be made. There is only one that maximizes the potential value of the deal.

When you play a game with a special feature like Fever Aces Poker video poker, you really have to take that feature into consideration as you’re devising strategy. Getting to that Fever Round is crucial if you want to earn competitive payback playing the game. That means you have to put a premium on aces, more so than you would in basic video poker.

As a result, you have to make sure that whatever method you choose to learn strategy also includes this twist. Come to think of it, you always have to make sure that whatever strategy you learn is tailored exactly to the video poker game that you’re playing.

For example, take a look at the following deal.

In most video poker formats, the correct play would be to hold the two pair. Most pay tables offer 2 to 1 for a two pair hand. Plus, you’d still be able to improve to a full house on the draw.

But the Fever Aces Poker video poker is a different animal. Two pair only pays off even money. As a result, the pair of aces that you have is just as valuable as it is as the two pair.

In addition, you know how important getting at least three aces on the draw is when playing Fever Aces Poker video poker. It gives you the chance at the fever round. For that reason, the right play on this deal for this particular game is to hold the pair of aces and drop everything else.

Remember that trying to learn video poker strategy without help will probably be a lost cause. The math that’s involved in trying to figure out the right play is extremely involved. This is especially the case on hands like that where there are tricky twists involved.

That’s why you should make sure to get some help in this process. Luckily, there are some excellent resources available to you. These teaching methods have already done all the Fever Aces Poker video poker math for you and can spit out the proper plays for you.

Here are the two methods that we recommend.

Strategy Charts

A strategy chart is set up to rank all the possible card combinations you might receive on a specific deal. These combinations are ranked in terms of their expected value as you head into the draw. Once you spot the cards in your deal that are the highest on the list, you’ll know that they’re the cards to be held from that deal.

You can memorize a strategy chart to get all this information in place for when you need to play. After all, most casinos won’t look too kindly on you bringing in what’s essentially a cheat sheet to play. Besides, consulting the chart on every deal will slow your play way down.

Video Poker Training Software

In the case of Fever Aces Poker video poker, we recommend downloadable software that you have to buy. Free video poker apps might work in the case of common games like Jacks or Better or Deuces Wild. But you’re probably not going to be able to get information on a game with special features like this one from a free app.

Once you have the software in place and have included all the specifics of Fever Aces Poker video poker, you can play hands of it as if you were playing for real. Although you probably won’t have the option of the Fever Round, you should be able to stress the importance of three or four aces when you input the information. As a result, the software should be able to tell you the right holds and discards, which you’ll learn after a lot of practice.

Fever Aces Poker Video Poker Pros and Cons

Conclusion on Fever Aces Poker Video Poker

Fever Aces Poker video poker will bring you a ton of excitement when you see aces accumulating in your hand. Getting to the Fever Round will provide you with eight free hands made more valuable by multipliers. But you’ll have to survive low payback amounts for common hands to enjoy those bonuses.