How to Play Multi-Strike Wheel Poker Video Poker
Multi-Strike Wheel Poker video poker lets you indulge in two of the most thrilling extra features in video poker all at once. The Multi-Strike angle allows you to win multipliers as you put together a winning streak of several hands in a row. And you’ll also get a chance to increase the multipliers with a spinning wheel aspect added to the picture as well.
Video poker can be played in many different ways. Many people are happy enough to stick with the simplest format of the game. This is known as Jacks or Better, where hands are ranked in the same manner as traditional poker hands so that it’s easy to understand.
But there are other games that allow you to change things up from the basic format a bit. For example, specialized pay tables permit you to win a little bit more for certain hands than you would if you were playing Jacks or Better. And wild card games like Deuces Wild allow you to turn certain cards into any other card in the deck, giving you more chances to attain rare hands.
All of these twists are included in the Multi-Strike Wheel Poker video poker format. But you also get to play with two extra features that add something special to gameplay. They also add payback because your winning potential will be raised if you do play the game with these special features in play.
That will require a significantly higher bet than in basic video poker. You’ll need to bet on up to four hands to get access to the Multi-Strike multipliers. There’s a five-coin fee to activate the spinning wheel.
Add that up and you’re looking at a maximum wager of 25 coins per round. Compared to the normal max bet of five coins, that can seem steep. But you have to consider what you get with this bigger bet.
When you play Multi-Strike Wheel Poker video poker, you can move up the ladder with each winning hand you achieve. As you do, you’ll encounter higher multipliers. You’ll go through levels of 2x, 4x, and 8x multipliers, which will boost your winnings significantly at each level.
On top of that, a max bet in Multi-Strike Wheel Poker video poker will get you a chance at a spinning wheel that can add to multiplier amounts. This is if you make it to the top and are dealt a winning hand.
At that point, you’ll get to spin a wheel with multiplier amounts all the way up to 40x. This will be applied to your final hand, which you already know will be a winner based on the deal. As a result, you really are assured to get the maximum impact from your multiplier.
When you add that up, a multiple-hand winning streak in Multi-Strike Wheel Poker video poker can absolutely spike your bankroll. You’ll need those occasionally, because the size of the bet and the fact that you’ll still only be playing with pay tables meant for five-coin bets will cause your bankroll to sink when you don’t get them. Multi-Strike Wheel Poker video poker is extremely volatile.
Here, we’ll tell you everything you need to know about Multi-Strike Wheel Poker video poker. We’ll explain basic video poker, and take you through a sample round of the game with the special features. Finally, we’ll look at the pay tables and determine how you can choose the best strategy.
Learning Basic Video Poker
If you’ve ever seen a basic video poker machine screen and compare it to what you’ll see when playing Multi-Strike Wheel Poker video poker, it might seem that the latter game is hopelessly complicated. In actuality, you’ll essentially be doing the same things and making the same decisions for both games. There are a just a couple added features with the Multi-Strike Wheel Poker video poker game.
For that reason, it’s a good idea for you to have a firm grasp on how to play a single hand of video poker on the most basic level before stepping up to try Multi-Strike Wheel Poker video poker. The good news is that video poker is an easy game to learn, even for beginners. That ease of play is just one of the many advantages you’ll enjoy playing the game, especially when you compare it to other casino offerings.
Video poker combines many of the best aspects of other casino games, like slot machines and table games. Just like slot machines, it’s a self-contained experience. It’s just you and the machine (or you and the online game), with no interruptions and complete privacy while you play.
But it separates from slot machines because it allows you to make strategic decisions which will impact whether you win or lose. You can’t do that with slot machines, where all you do is spin and hope. And you’ll base your decisions on the pay table and the probabilities of achieving winning hands.
Your expected payback for video poker is also one of the highest, on average, of all casino games. And you can play video poker in many different varieties, whether you’re in a casino or playing online. Speaking of online play, video poker makes for an ideal experience at top gambling websites.
With all of that in its favor, video poker might be friendlier to gamblers that any other casino game. If you already know the basics, you can move on to where we talk about the specifics of Multi-Strike Wheel Poker video poker. But for those new to the game, let’s look at the basics step by step.
Step 1: Your Bankroll
You’ll need a bankroll before you can begin playing video poker for real money. This will allow you to make wagers and will give you a place to collect your winnings. Simple put money into the machine or, if you’re playing online, create a gambling account to start up a bankroll.
What you’ll find is that, once you put your money in, it will be transferred into units known as credits or coins. These are what you’ll win and what you bet as you play, and they’ll be changed back over into cash at the end of your session (if you have any left). Credits or coins will be based on whatever denomination you’ve chosen to play.
Step 2: Your Wager
As we mentioned above, the format of betting when playing Multi-Strike Wheel Poker video poker is vastly different than when you’re playing the most basic form of video poker. Playing basic video poker, you’ll be wagering between one and five credits per hand. It’s always advised to make the five-coin bet, since that maximizes the amount that you can win on a royal flush.
But Multi-Strike Wheel Poker video poker adds two different choices to the equation. You can bet on up to four levels of video poker hands, which can raise your max bet to 10 (2 hands), 15 (3 hands), or 20 (4 hands).
The amount of the bet will dictate the maximum multipliers you can receive. Take a look.
- Level 1 (5 coins) = 1x
- Level 2 (10 coins) = 2x
- Level 3 (15 coins) = 4x
- Level 4 (20 coins) = 8x
On top of that, there is a five-coin fee that is added that will access the spinning wheel feature in Multi-Strike Wheel Poker video poker. This can only be added if you’ve already decided on playing all four levels. In other words, you can’t add it to a five-coin bet to get the wheel on level 1.
What that means is that a max bet in Multi-Strike Wheel Poker video poker is 25 coins. While that might seem like a lot, you have to remember that it actually maximizes your potential winnings over the long haul playing the game.
It’s your choice. You could play a single-coin bet if you want, which would eliminate all the special features and give you a basic video poker experience. But that wouldn’t make much sense on a game like Multi-Strike Wheel Poker video poker, where part of the lure is the potential for big payoffs.
Step 3: Your Hand
We mentioned earlier that video poker resembles the card game known as Five-Card Draw. You get five cards in your deal and try to make the best possible poker hand with this deal and a draw. On the draw, you get to discard certain cards and draw new ones to improve your hand.
In Five-Card Draw, you have to beat everybody at the table to win the pot. But in video poker, you’re essentially the only one at the table. You just have to form one of the winning combinations of cards on the pay table to earn some payback.
While you’ll have many different pay tables from which to choose when playing Multi-Strike Wheel Poker video poker, each with its own specific batch of winning hands, you’ll be striving to make the following hands in games without a wild card.
- 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)
On top of that list are hands that will come up relatively often in video poker but won’t pay that much. As you move down the list, you’ll see hands that come up rarely but pay much more. Part of the strategy of video poker is deciding when it’s worthwhile to take a chance on those rarer hands to possibly score a big payback.
The Deal
Five cards will appear on your screen once you’ve made your bet and activated the “deal.” Keep in mind that, for now, we’re only talking about a single hand of video poker. When we talk about Multi-Strike Wheel Poker video poker, you’ll see how there can be up to four hands on the screen at once at the end of a successful round.
The five cards that you see will come from a simulated deck of 52 cards. These are the same cards that you would find in a standard deck in your home. And your chances of receiving one of these cards in a particular deal or draw never changes, no matter what might have occurred in previous hands during your session.
The Decision
Once you get these cards, you have to decide which ones you want to hold and which ones you want to discard. The cards you hold will be part of your final hand. Discarded cards will be replaced by others from the deck, which will contain the 47 cards remaining after your five-card deal.
Take a look at a sample deal to see how decisions like this can be made:
In this deal, you don’t have any winning combinations right off the bat. But there are many different possibilities for you in terms of winning hands you might be able to make with help from the draw. Read below for a few examples.
- Holding the pair of fours and dropping the other three cards will put you in range of many winning combinations. You could end up with two pair, three of a kind, a full house, or even four of a kind. This might be the safest of all the plays you have in terms of most likely to produce a win of some kind.
- If you hold all four of the hearts, you’ll have a chance of drawing another one to replace the four of diamonds and give you a flush. Of course, you’d only have one chance of this draw. Your chances would be nine (that’s how many hearts are still in the deck) in 47 (that’s how many cards are in the deck).
- You could also go big, so to speak, by holding the four, five, and seven of hearts only. It would take a lucky draw, but you could conceivably end up with the high-paying straight flush with this play. Even if you didn’t get that specific hand, you’d still have a shot at many other winning combinations forming with the two cards that you draw.
You might think that a choice like this should come down to personal preference. But, in actuality, only one of those plays maximizes the value of the hand, which means you should make that play every time. When we get to strategy, we’ll talk about this concept a little bit more.
The Draw
To make your decision, press the buttons for the cards you wish to hold (if any). Once you hit the “draw” button, the cards that you discarded will be replaced by others in the deck. That will complete the hand, with any winnings you’ve achieved added to your bankroll at that point.
Now, you should be able to handle a single hand of video poker. Let’s move on to talk about the details of Multi-Strike Wheel Poker video poker.
Playing Multi-Strike Wheel Poker Video Poker
You have the basics down, so it’s time to walk you through an example including the special features of Multi-Strike Wheel Poker video poker. If you make the 25-coin wager to access all levels and the wheel, the following game rules will apply.
You’ll see a grid on your screen that includes four rows with spaces for five cards on each row. The levels will be labelled from the bottom up with the multiplier amounts attached to them:
- 1x
- 2x
- 4x
- 8x
There are two ways to move up a level. If you form a winning combination of some sort, you’ll move up.
You’ll also automatically move up when you receive a “Free Ride” card while playing Multi-Strike Wheel Poker video poker. This card will flash briefly on the deal then be replaced by an actual card from the deck. Seeing this card indicates you’ll move up to the next level regardless of whether you win the hand.
One thing to note about this process: You are covered on all four levels once you make your initial wager at Level 1. In other words, you don’t have to keep making wagers at the higher levels. Only at Level 1 do you have to make the 25-coin wager to kick the Multi-Strike Wheel Poker video poker cycle into progress.
As for the wheel, that will come into play only if you make it all the way up to Level 4. At that point, if you receive a winning combination on the deal, the wheel will immediately appear. You’ll spin it to see what multiplier you’ll get, which will then replace the 8x multiplier for that hand.
Here are the multipliers found on the Multi-Strike Wheel Poker video poker wheel:
- 10x
- 12x
- 15x
- 18x
- 20x
- 24x
- 25x
- 30x
- 32x
- 35x
- 36x
- 40x
Wherever the wheel lands, that’s the multiplier you’ll get for that top level. You’ll then finish out the hand, making your decisions about what to hold and discard. Once you complete the hand, your multiplier will be applied.
At any point that you lose a hand and don’t get a free ride card, you go back to the bottom level. If you lose on the bottom level, you stay there until you can form a winning hand and move up to Level 2. Since the Level 1 multiplier is 1x, it essentially means that you will win whatever the pay table says at that level, since any number multiplied by 1 equals that number.
Let’s take a look at how these multipliers can really pump up your winnings. Imagine that you put together the following streak playing normal Jacks or Better poker:
- Hand 1: Two pair
- Hand 2: High pair
- Hand 3: Straight
- Hand 4: Full house
Normally, your payoffs on a max bet per hand would be:
- Hand 1: 10 coins
- Hand 2: 5 coins
- Hand 3: 20 coins
- Hand 4: 45 coins
You would have earned a total of 80 coins during that stretch. Minus the 20 coins that it would have taken to make the Max Bet on each hand, you’d be looking at a profit of 60 coins. Not bad at all.
But compare it to what would happen playing Multi-Strike Wheel Poker video poker if you made the same exact hands, only with the multipliers in place:
- Hand 1: 10 coins times 1 = 10 coins
- Hand 2: 5 coins times 2 = 10 coins
- Hand 3: 20 coins times 4 = 80 coins
- Hand 4: 45 coins times 8 = 360 coins
Adding that up, you earned 460 coins. That was with the same 20 coins wagered that it would have taken for you to play four hands of the basic game. Your profit would be 440 coins, 380 coins more than in the basic Jacks or Better game.
Now, imagine that you added the five-coin wager to activate the wheel. What if you had done that and the full house came after you were dealt a winning combination? That would mean you’d get to spin the wheel for a chance of multipliers that would definitely be higher than 8x, perhaps up to 5x higher.
This example shows you the massive potential you have to win when playing Multi-Strike Wheel Poker video poker. But the flipside is that there will be many losing hands that will derail you on your way to the top. When you’re betting 25 coins at a time and not getting access to the multipliers, your bankroll will slide quickly.
For that reason, Multi-Strike Wheel Poker video poker is known as a game with a particularly high level of volatility. The good news is that you can big in a hurry. Imagine getting one of the top hands on the pay table while a wheel multiplier is in place!
But you also have to prepare for stretches where you might struggle to stay afloat. To play Multi-Strike Wheel Poker video poker at a high level, you’ll need to put together a substantial starting bankroll. That will allow you to keep your bankroll afloat during tough times until you get a lucrative winning streak.
Pay Tables for Multi-Strike Wheel Poker Video Poker
On top of everything else at your disposal when playing Multi-Strike Wheel Poker video poker, you’ll get to choose between the major pay tables in the world of video poker. This allows you to customize your play to what you’re looking for from the game. And if you’re someone who is familiar with a particular pay table, you can be assured of having access to it when playing this game.
If you choose, you can keep it simple with Jacks or Better. You can pump up your chances of quick, significant payoffs on a single hand by using one of the “Bonus” pay tables. Or you can even try out one of the wild card games, such as Deuces Wild, to add an extra twist to the action.
We have a list of the pay table families that you’ll be able to find on a Multi-Strike Wheel Poker video poker (or online game). Keep in mind that the specific versions of these pay table families that we’ve listed below are generally the highest-paying, or full-pay, tables. You might not be lucky enough to find these tables, but you should strive to find a table that comes as close to the ideal payback amounts.
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 kind | 3 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 15 |
| Two pairs | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 |
| Jacks or better | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Bonus Poker 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 (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) | 20 | 40 | 60 | 80 | 100 |
| Full house | 8 | 16 | 24 | 32 | 40 |
| Flush | 5 | 10 | 15 | 20 | 25 |
| Straight | 4 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 24 |
| Three of a kind | 3 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 15 |
| Two pairs | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 |
| Jacks or better | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Bonus Poker Deluxe 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 | 80 | 160 | 240 | 320 | 400 |
| 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 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Jacks or better | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Double Bonus Poker Pay Table
| Coins/Hand | 1 Coin | 2 Coins | 3 Coins | 4 Coins | 5 Coins |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royal flush | 2,000 | 4,000 | 6,000 | 8,000 | 4,000 |
| Straight flush | 50 | 100 | 150 | 200 | 250 |
| Four of a kind (aces) | 160 | 320 | 480 | 640 | 800 |
| Four of a kind (2s, 3s, or 4s) | 80 | 160 | 240 | 320 | 400 |
| Four of a kind (any other) | 50 | 100 | 150 | 200 | 250 |
| Full house | 9 | 18 | 27 | 36 | 45 |
| Flush | 7 | 14 | 21 | 28 | 35 |
| Straight | 5 | 10 | 15 | 20 | 25 |
| Three of a kind | 3 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 15 |
| Two pairs | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Jacks or better | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Double Double Bonus Poker 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 aces without any 2,3,4 | 400 | 800 | 1,200 | 1,600 | 2,000 |
| Four 2s, 3s, 4s without 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 pairs | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Pair of jacks + | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Triple Double Bonus Pay Table
| Coins/Hand | 1 Coin | 2 Coins | 3 Coins | 4 Coins | 5 Coins |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royal flush | 200 | 400 | 600 | 800 | 4,000 |
| Straight flush | 50 | 100 | 150 | 200 | 250 |
| Four of a kind – aces 2, 3, 4 kicker | 800 | 1,600 | 2,400 | 3,600 | 4,000 |
| Four of a kind – 2s, 3s, or 4s A, 2, 3, or 4 kicker | 400 | 800 | 1,200 | 1,600 | 2,000 |
| Four of a kind – aces 5s – Ks kicker | 160 | 320 | 480 | 640 | 800 |
| Four of a kind – 2s, 3s, or 4s 5s – Ks kicker | 80 | 160 | 240 | 320 | 400 |
| Four of a kind – any other | 50 | 100 | 150 | 200 | 250 |
| Full house | 9 | 18 | 27 | 36 | 45 |
| Flush | 7 | 14 | 21 | 28 | 35 |
| Straight | 4 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 20 |
| Three of a kind | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 |
| Two pairs | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Pair of jacks + | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Super Double Bonus 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 | 80 | 160 | 240 | 320 | 400 |
| Four of a kind (aces) | 160 | 320 | 480 | 640 | 800 |
| Four of a kind (Jack through Kings) | 120 | 240 | 360 | 480 | 400 |
| Four of a kind (Two through Four) | 80 | 160 | 240 | 320 | 400 |
| Four of a kind (Five through Ten) | 50 | 100 | 150 | 200 | 250 |
| 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 pairs | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Jacks or better | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
White Hot Aces Pay Table
| Coins/Hand | 1 Coin | 2 Coins | 3 Coins | 4 Coins | 5 Coins |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royal flush | 200 | 400 | 600 | 800 | 4,000 |
| Straight flush | 80 | 160 | 240 | 320 | 400 |
| Four of a kind (aces) | 240 | 480 | 720 | 960 | 1,200 |
| Four of a kind (2s, 3s, or 4s) | 120 | 240 | 360 | 480 | 600 |
| Four of a kind (any other) | 50 | 100 | 150 | 200 | 250 |
| 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 pairs | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Pair of jacks + | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Deuces Wild Pay Table
| Coins/Hand | 1 Coin | 2 Coins | 3 Coins | 4 Coins | 5 Coins |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royal flush | 250 | 500 | 750 | 1,000 | 4,000 |
| Four deuces | 200 | 400 | 600 | 800 | 1,000 |
| Wild royal flush | 25 | 50 | 75 | 100 | 125 |
| Five of a kind | 16 | 32 | 48 | 64 | 80 |
| 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 |
Deuces Wild Bonus Pay Table
| Coins/Hand | 1 Coin | 2 Coins | 3 Coins | 4 Coins | 5 Coins |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royal flush | 250 | 500 | 750 | 1,000 | 4,000 |
| Four deuces with an Ace | 400 | 800 | 1,200 | 1,600 | 2,000 |
| Four deuces | 200 | 400 | 600 | 800 | 1,000 |
| Wild royal flush | 25 | 50 | 75 | 100 | 125 |
| Five aces | 80 | 160 | 240 | 320 | 400 |
| Five 3s, 4s or 5s | 40 | 80 | 120 | 160 | 200 |
| Five 6s through Ks | 20 | 40 | 60 | 80 | 100 |
| Straight flush | 15 | 30 | 45 | 60 | 75 |
| Four of a kind | 4 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 20 |
| Full house | 3 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 15 |
| Flush | 3 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 15 |
| Straight | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Three of a kind | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Double Bonus Deuces Wild Pay Table
| Coins/Hand | 1 Coin | 2 Coins | 3 Coins | 4 Coins | 5 Coins |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royal flush | 250 | 500 | 750 | 1,000 | 4,000 |
| Four deuces with an Ace | 400 | 800 | 1,200 | 1,600 | 2,000 |
| Four deuces | 200 | 400 | 600 | 800 | 1,000 |
| Wild royal flush | 25 | 50 | 75 | 100 | 125 |
| Five aces | 160 | 320 | 480 | 640 | 800 |
| Five 3s 5s | 50 | 100 | 150 | 200 | 250 |
| Five 6s Ks | 20 | 40 | 60 | 80 | 100 |
| Straight flush | 12 | 24 | 36 | 48 | 60 |
| Four of a kind | 4 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 20 |
| Full house | 3 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 15 |
| Flush | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 |
| Straight | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Three of a kind | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Strategy for Multi-Strike Wheel Poker Video Poker
We talked briefly above about how strategy works in video poker. For every deal that you receive, there is a specific combination of holds and discards that you can play that will maximize the winning potential of this deal based on the specific pay table you’ve chosen. This should be the play you make every time.
But Multi-Strike Wheel Poker video poker adds another layer to the strategy aspect. We’ve already told you that the way to play the game at its maximum potential is to make the maximum 25-coin wager. This allows you access to both the four levels of play and the wheel.
What complicates the strategy is that you need the multipliers to maximize your winnings. And that means winning combinations, of any sort, become extra important when playing Multi-Strike Wheel Poker video poker. Even a simple high pair becomes more valuable because it gets you to the next level.
On top of that, as you move up the ladder, so to speak, the importance of forming any winning combination increases. This is especially true at the third level, which is where a win would give you a shot at the wheel spin and really massive multipliers.
As a result, there will be times when it makes more sense to settle for a winning combination that might be the ideal play if you were playing regular video poker. And that is a difficult thing to gauge. You never know when you might be settling for an easy winning combination at the expense of a potential huge payback on that level.
For that reason, strategy for Multi-Strike Wheel Poker video poker can be a bit of a guessing game. You might be able to find some sort of strategic resource that takes all of what we just mentioned into consideration and works out the math for you on each level. But most likely, you’ll just have to try to get a feel for what the right adjustments should be from basic strategy.
With all that in mind, you should definitely choose a pay table to learn, since that will make strategy easier for you. Once you’ve done that, we suggest you find one of the following two resources to teach you ideal basic strategy for Multi-Strike Wheel Poker video poker.
Strategy Charts
Strategy charts are certainly the quickest way to learn perfect video poker strategy. All you have to do is find a strategy chart online for the pay table you’ve chosen and memorize it. With that information, you can reasonably expect to make the right choice for every deal that you might receive.
How is that possible? Strategy charts rank all of the potential card combinations you might receive on the deal in terms of their expected value to a hand. Once you know this, you’ll be able to spot the most valuable combination in whatever deal you receive, which means that you can discard the rest.
Video Poker Training Software
Video poker training software requires a longer time for learning perfect strategy compared to a strategy chart. That’s because training software essentially requires that you practice hands over and over. Along the way, you’ll get instruction about the right cards to play from the software, which does all the math.
For that reason, training software might be what you need if you want to start playing for real money quickly. But it can be very useful to those who are just learning to play video poker for the first time. It will help you get the basics of the game down pat and learn ideal strategy along the way.
Multi-Strike Wheel Poker Video Poker Pros and Cons
- Winning streaks become incredibly valuable with increasing multipliers attached
- The wheel spin could really amplify those multipliers
- You get access to many of the best pay tables
- No winning streak means a 25-coin bet for a five-coin pay table
- Difficult strategy with all of the variables in play
- Extremely expensive betting requires for playing the game at maximum payback potential
Conclusion on Multi-Strike Wheel Poker Video Poker
Multi-Strike Wheel Poker video poker gives you access to two special features at the same time. Of course, you have to pay a significant amount for that privilege every single hand that you play. But it makes up for it in the long run with the potential payback within your reach.
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