Hyper Bonus Poker Video Poker Guide

For those who like to see their multipliers count, Hyper Bonus Poker video poker proves an excellent twist on your basic video poker play. You have to make a sizable extra wager to activate the multipliers, so this game doesn’t come cheap. But you can atone for those extra bets when you start seeing the multipliers boost your winnings in triple-play mode.

Video poker has undergone an evolution over the past few decades, from a basic, Jacks or Better-style game to many variations that look to change up the way the game is viewed by gamblers. By adding Bonus pay tables, the manufacturers of video poker provided the opportunity for players to hit more jackpot-style payoffs. And by including wild card games, they made it seem like gamblers could attain hands that seemed unreachable in normal play.

Hyper Bonus Poker allows you access to all of those different styles of play. You can simply choose the pay table that you wish to use out of the ones that the game includes for you, whether you are playing on a machine in a casino, or on an online game via a betting website. Then, it tempts you with another twist to further spice up gameplay.

This twist can only be activated by essentially doubling the maximum bet of five wagers per hand. Since Hyper Bonus Poker is only available in triple play mode where you have to wager on three hands at once, it can be quite expensive to play. But the saving grace is the bonus that you get by making that extra wager.

When activated by the extra bet, multipliers will show up occasionally on the screen to boost your winnings while playing Hyper Bonus Poker. Most multipliers in video poker appear at random. But in this game, they only show up when you receive a winning hand on the deal.

In the following article, you’ll learn how to play basic video poker, and then move to get a grasp of the way that Hyper Bonus Poker is played. That means that you’ll learn how to play in a triple play mode with the multipliers activated, and you’ll also get a taste for some of the different pay tables that you might encounter. Finally, we’ll talk about learning proper strategy, and we’ll go into the various advantages and disadvantages of this game.

Playing Basic Video Poker

If we told you that there was a game that could be played in a casino or at online gambling sites that combined the best features of both slot machines and table games, you’d be interested, right? What if we told you that game already existed? You might have been walking by video poker machines your whole life and never realizing just how friendly they were to both recreational and serious gamblers.

First of all, it’s an easy game to play as you’re about to find out. Like slot machines, it only requires you and the machine to play it. That means that you don’t have to worry about any interruptions or hassles from casino patrons or employees like you would if you were playing table games.

But video poker is a better game on the whole than slot machines for a number of reasons. First of all, you have some control over the action in video poker, because you have the chance to use strategy in the game. Video poker is also governed by probabilities, which give you a rough estimate of how often you might make winning hands, or even how much you might win from a machine over time.

That doesn’t happen with slot machines where the results are random. And slot machines pay off, on the average, at a much lower rate than even the least competitive video poker machines. In fact, many video poker games pay off at a level that puts them right in line with table games.

With all of those reasons to play, it’s a good idea to start investigating video poker games such as Hyper Bonus Poker video poker. The good news is that you can play the game as long as you have a good idea of how to play video poker in its most basic form. Here is a step-by-step, how-to guide to help you out on how to get started.

Step 1: Establishing Your Bankroll

Your bankroll is the money that you put into the machine to start playing video poker. If you are playing online, it will come from the account that you set up with the betting website that you’ve chosen. When at a machine, you can pay by either inserting cash or a redemption ticket into the provided slot.

For example, let’s say that you put $10 into a machine with a denomination of 25 cents. Divide 10 by .25 and you end up with 40 credits. That is how much you’ll start with when you begin the game, but it will dwindle each time you bet and rise any time that you win a hand.

Step 2: Making Your Bet

You must wager at least one credit for each hand that you play. In most video poker games, you can risk up to five coins per hand, and that is usually known as the max bet. In terms of Hyper Bonus Poker video poker, the max bet is actually much higher than that, as you’ll find out when we get to discussing how the game differs from normal video poker.

There is a button on the machine that says “Max Bet” that you can push if you want to automatically bet the most, and then go right to the deal. If you decide to bet less than that, there are buttons that will allow you to toggle up and down one coin at a time until you reach your desired betting amount.

Step 3: Playing Your Hand

If you’ve ever played Five-Card Draw poker, you should have a pretty good idea about how to play video poker. The mechanics of the two are the same, in that you receive five cards from a standard 52-card deck on the deal. You can then improve your hand in the draw round by discarding the cards you don’t want and having them replaced by others in the deck.

When you hit the “Deal” button on a video poker machine, five cards will appear on your screen. Your goal is to make a winning hand determined by the pay table of the game that you’re playing. Pay tables may differ slightly from one to another, but here are the most common winning hands in order of easiest to achieve to hardest to achieve:

• 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)

You might be able to form one of these winning hands just from the deal alone. Even if you can’t, you might have the seeds of a winning hand, or even multiple seeds, within those first five cards. And, even if you have absolutely nothing of consequence, you still have the draw round to help pull your hand out.

Once you have inspected your deal, you then have the chance to make a decision about how to play your hand. You have the opportunity to discard any number of the cards in your hand, or you can keep them all if you’re satisfied with what you have. The cards that you’ve discarded will be replaced by more cards from the same deck from which you were dealt.

The decisions about what to hold and what to discard can be tricky now and again. For example, imagine the following hand:

On the one hand, you have a pair of queens. This hand will at least win you back your initial hand in most video poker pay tables. And if you keep the queens and throw out the rest, you’ll have three cards coming to improve your hand even more.

But you’ll notice as well that you have four hearts in your hand. If you throw out the queen of spades, you could draw another heart and come up with a flush. You would have a little better than a one in five chance of coming up with the card you need.

On top of that, you have the ten of hearts, jack of hearts, and queen of hearts. These cards put both the straight flush and royal flush into play. Although the chances of drawing the cards you need for these hands aren’t great, the reward for getting one of them is tremendous.

These types of choices will face you from time to time when playing Hyper Bonus Poker or any type of video poker. It’s all about weighing the chances of getting certain hands against the payout you will receive for them. The best players know how to make the mathematically correct plays every single hand, a concept we’ll discuss once we get to strategy.

In any case, once you make your decision about what to hold, you will press the “Hold” buttons below those cards, if there are any. You can also discard all five if you want. Then, press the “Draw” button to see what cards you receive and if your hand will be a winner.

Step 4: Continuing Play or Quitting

Video poker is the kind of game that you can play non-stop as long as you have credits left in the machine. Simply keep repeating steps two and three as long as you wish to keep playing. When you run out of credits, you can always replenish by putting more money in the machine.

Now that you know how to play basic video poker, you can start to get a feel for Hyper Bonus Poker. First, you have to learn how to play three hands at a time, since this game is exclusively played on machines that are set up in triple play mode.

Playing Triple-Play Video Poker

When you play Hyper Bonus Poker, you must play in triple-play mode. That means that you must place a bet on all three hands. And if you want to play with the multipliers, it can be pretty expensive but we’ll get to that in a bit.

For now, let’s talk about how triple play works. You will be receiving just a single deal, which will then be the basis for all three hands that you play. As an example, let’s take that hand that we showed you above:

The decision that you make in terms of what to hold and discard will be in place for all three hands. In other words, you couldn’t decide to keep the pair of queens in one hand, the four hearts in the second, and the ten, jack, and queen of hearts in the third. You just have to make one decision and live with it.

Let’s say that you decided on the ten, jack, and queen of Hearts as your hold and are going to discard the two of hearts and queen of spades. You will then draw from three separate simulated decks containing the 47 cards that you didn’t receive on the deal.

You might get this on the draws:

• Hand 1: Nine of Hearts, Ten of Hearts, Jack of Hearts, Queen of Hearts, King of Hearts
• Hand 2: Four of Hearts, Ten of Hearts, Jack of Hearts, Queen of Hearts, Nine of Hearts
• Hand 3: Two of Clubs, Ten of Hearts, Jack of Hearts, Queen of Hearts, King of Clubs

In the first hand, you managed a straight flush, one of the biggest-paying hands in the game. The second hand brought you a flush. Unfortunately, the third hand brought you nothing, but you still made out pretty well.

Let’s tally up the winnings with payouts based on five coins played per hand and a full-pay Jacks or Better pay table (more on that in a bit).

• Hand 1: 250 coins
• Hand 2: 25 coins
• Hand 3: 0 coins

Adding that up, you can see that you have made 275 coins in one fell swoop. Minus the original 15-coin wager (three hands times five coins), you still came out with a profit of 260 coins. That gives you an idea of how you can really score in triple play mode when you get a good deal.

By contrast, a lousy deal will also hurt you a little bit more, since you run the risk of losing three times as much in the same amount of time. Thus, this kind of video poker can give and take away. When you add in the multipliers, this kind of dynamic really becomes amplified.

The Multipliers in Hyper Bonus Poker Video Poker

Now that you know how to play basic video poker in triple play fashion, you’re ready to learn the twist of Hyper Bonus Poker. The good thing is that the extra feature doesn’t require you to learn any new strategy. All you have to do is decide whether or not you want to make the extra bet to activate it.

This is by no means an easy decision. To activate the feature, you need to double your bet for each of the three hands that you play. That means 10 coins per hand or 30 coins for every single deal of Hyper Bonus Poker.

Think about that in monetary terms. If you are playing at a dollar machine, this means that you have to make a $30 dollar bet all at one time. Even at a nickel machine, you’ll be playing $1.50 per hand, which might be a bit too rich for a casual player.

The other issue is that you will essentially be getting paid at the 5-coin level. Pay tables do not change just because you are making the extra bets. This can also reduce your profit margin quickly if you are only getting low-paying winning hands.

Of course, you are making these extra bets to give yourself the chance at multipliers while playing Hyper Bonus Poker. A multiplier does just what it sounds: It multiplies whatever winnings you come up with on a hand. For example, if you get a 3x multiplier on a hand where your payout is normally 20 coins, you’ll receive 60 coins in your bankroll instead.

In Hyper Bonus Poker, however, the multipliers show up whenever you have a winning hand on the deal. It’s as simple as that. Let’s take a look one more time at our sample hand:

Because a pair of queens is a winning hand on its own, you can be assured of multipliers in each of the three draws for this hand. The rules state that the multipliers can be the following:

• 1x
• 2x
• 3x
• 4x
• 5x
• 7x
• 8x
• 10x
• 12x

In addition, the 1x multiplier, which doesn’t really boost your winnings, will only show up in the bottom hand. That means that, at the very least, you will get a multiplying raise in two of the three hands.

Let’s go back to those hands that we drew to earlier. As you recall, the winnings were:

• Hand 1: 250 coins
• Hand 2: 25 coins
• Hand 3: 0 coins

Because the hand started with a Pair of Queens on the deal, you know that multipliers are coming on the draw. Let’s imagine that they show up on the screen like so:

• Hand 1: 3x
• Hand 2: 7x
• Hand 3: 1x

Apply those multipliers to the winnings above. You end up with:

• Hand 1: 250 times 3 = 750 coins
• Hand 2: 25 times 7 = 175 coins
• Hand 3: 1 times 0 = 0 coins

Adding that up, you end up with 925 coins from one deal. Even subtracting the 30-coin wager, you ended up with 895 coins of profit.

A couple notes here: You’ll notice that you get the multipliers in this example even though you threw back the pair of queens that earned them. You don’t need to keep the cards that make up the winning hand to still receive the multipliers. They will come into play after the deal no matter how you play out the hands.

Of course, you might think twice about throwing out the two queens knowing that you have a winning hand that is definitely going to be multiplied. But you shouldn’t overthink your strategy when playing Hyper Bonus Poker. Play with the same strategy that you would have in place even if there were no multipliers in the mix.

In Hyper Bonus Poker, the multipliers only come in when there are winning hands already in place on the deal. You are almost assured of having the multipliers help you out. The only time they might not would be on a hand like the one above which is a relatively rare example of all the possible deals you might receive.

Pay Tables Available for Hyper Bonus Poker Video Poker

As we stated above, Hyper Bonus Poker is a great game for those who like to dabble in different video poker variations. It provides you with access to many different pay tables that come from the most popular forms of video poker that you can imagine. Here is just a sampling of the video poker pay tables that you can find on a Hyper Bonus machine (or if playing the game online).

Jacks or Better Pay Table

Coins/Hands	1 coin	2 coins	3 coins	4 coins	5 coins
Royal flush	250	500	750	1000	4000
Straight flush	50	100	150	200	250
Four of a kind	25	50	75	100	125
Full house	9	18	27	36	45
Flush	5	10	15	20	25
Straight	4	8	12	16	20
Three of a kind	3	6	9	12	15
Two pair	2	4	6	8	10
Jacks or better	1	2	3	4	5

Bonus Poker Pay Table

Coins/Hands	1 coin	2 coins	3 coins	4 coins	5 coins
Royal flush	200	400	600	800	4000
Straight flush	50	100	150	200	250
Four of a kind (aces)	80	160	240	320	400
Four of a kind (2s, 3s, or 4s)	40	80	120	160	200
Four of a kind (any other)	25	50	75	100	125
Full house	7	14	21	28	35
Flush	5	10	15	20	25
Straight	4	8	12	16	20
Three of a kind	3	6	9	12	15
Two pair	2	4	6	8	10
Jacks or better	1	2	3	4	5

Double Double Bonus Pay Table

Coins/Hands	1 coin	2 coins	3 coins	4 coins	5 coins
Royal flush	250	500	750	1000	4000
Straight flush	50	100	150	200	250
Four of a kind aces w/ any 2,3,4	400	800	1200	1600	2000
Four of a kind 2s, 3s, or 4s w/ any A,2,3,4	160	320	480	640	800
Four aces	160	320	480	640	800
Four 2s, 3s, 4s	80	160	240	320	400
Four 5s through Ks	50	100	150	200	250
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 pair	1	2	3	4	5
Pair of jacks +	1	2	3	4	5

Deuces Wild Pay Table

Coins/Hands	1 coin	2 coins	3 coins	4 coins	5 coins
Royal flush	250	500	750	1000	4000
Four deuces	200	400	600	800	1000
Wild royal flush	20	40	60	80	100
Five of a kind	12	24	36	48	60
Straight flush	10	20	30	40	50
Four of a kind	4	8	12	16	20
Full house	4	8	12	16	20
Flush	3	6	9	12	15
Straight	2	4	6	8	10
Three of a kind	1	2	3	4	5

Other possible variations that you can play on a Hyper Bonus Poker machine:

• Bonus Poker Deluxe
• Deuces Wild Bonus
• Double Bonus
• Triple Double Bonus

One thing that you might notice from the pay tables above is that they are a bit less competitive than what you might expect from those games. The reason for that is the Hyper Bonus Poker twist actually adds a little bit to the average payback percentage in each game. If the twist were added to the highest available pay tables, video poker players would receive too much of an advantage on the game.

As a result, it is a good idea, if you are going to play a Hyper Bonus Poker video poker, to go for broke and pay extra to employ the multipliers. Even with the multipliers, the payback percentages linger, for the most part, in the 97% and 98% range. That still makes the game less advantageous over the long haul than, for example, plain old full-pay Jacks or Better which returns 99.54% to players.

Still, if you are planning to play a machine for the long run, investing a lot of money and time into it, Hyper Bonus Poker might not be a perfect choice. It falls short of the 99% threshold that we recommend for payback percentage in video poker. With a 99% payback, you can generally break out even or come out a little ahead with the help of casino and online bonuses for loyal play.

Developing Strategy for Hyper Bonus Poker Video Poker

Because Hyper Bonus Poker gives you access to many different types of video poker, you might feel intimidated by having to learn strategy for them all. Your best bet is to pick the one or two pay tables and styles of play that you like and concentrate on them when trying to learn strategy. That will narrow things down and make it easier for you.

You should also take the time to learn the proper strategy for the game or games that you choose within Hyper Bonus Poker. Many novice players think that they are making the right choices when it comes down to which cards to hold and discard for each hand. But there are many deals which can provide tricky choices that can easily trip you up into making mistakes.

Mistakes, over the long haul, will hurt your chances of bringing in the most amount of money from the game. You can’t match the maximum payback percentages unless you get lucky (in the short term) or learn perfect play (in the long term). Once you identify the variations within Hyper Bonus Poker that you want to play, here are the two best ways to learn perfect play:

• Strategy Charts: A strategy chart is a list of all of the possible deals you might receive in a certain variation of video poker, and they are ranked in terms of the best combination of cards to the worst. When you see a combination that you have in your hand ranked high on the list, you’ll know which cards you can discard. Strategy charts, which can be found online for all of the games listed above, should be memorized for best use.
• Video Poker Trainers: Trainers are downloadable pieces of software which can be used to simulate any of the games listed above. How the trainers work is they alert you when you have a made a mistake in terms of a hold or a discard on a given hand. After playing with a trainer for a long time, you will instinctively know all the right moves to make when you are playing Hyper Bonus Poker for real money.

Hyper Bonus Poker Video Poker Pros and Cons

Conclusion on Hyper Bonus Poker Video Poker

If you’re tired of playing video poker games where the multipliers don’t seem to help, Hyper Bonus Poker, whether played online or at a top gambling website, is a great game to try. The multipliers are practically guaranteed to help you here. But keep in mind that you’ll be paying a great deal for that privilege.