Super Look Ahead Poker Video Poker

Super Look Ahead Poker video poker gives you a chance that all video poker variations only dream of getting. With an extra bet, you can see the first card that you’ll be getting on the draw. Not only that, but you can also choose whether or not you want to accept that card or have it replaced with something else from the deck.

In terms of video poker games, Jacks or Better represents the most basic and common form of the game. Many beginners learn how to play video poker with Jacks or Better, since the pay tables and gameplay are easy to understand. But if you’re feeling a little adventurous, you can seek out one of the many variations on basic video poker found in casinos and on top gambling websites.

Some of these games offer variety by changing up the pay tables. Other add an extra twist to the game that can usually only be activated by making an extra wager on top of the normal amount.

Super Look Ahead Poker video poker gives you the best of both of these worlds. In terms of pay tables, you can find most of the top varieties in video poker all on this one game. Simply choose at the start which one you want to play to get the style of game that you want.

What’s Different About Super Look Ahead Poker?

As for the extra feature in Super Look Ahead Poker video poker, you might be able to tell what it is just from the name. When you bet three extra coins on top of the maximum amount of five for a total of eight, you get to see the first card that will be coming to you on the draw. That gives you an edge in terms of deciding what cards to hold and discard.

If that sounds familiar, there’s also a game called Look Ahead Poker video poker which lets you do the same thing. But Super Look Ahead Poker video poker twists it up even more. In this game, you get to either accept this first card on the draw or reject it for something else in the deck.

Super Look Ahead Poker video poker is essentially giving you a chance to mess with the draw. You have more control over the cards that you will receive than just about any other variant of video poker. More control generally means more chances at winning.

In addition to all that, Super Look Ahead Poker video poker also beefs up the pay tables. It gives you even more incentive to try this unique game. But there are drawbacks.

When you’re betting eight coins per hand, you’re making a pretty extreme financial commitment. If you can’t get some winning hands in a hurry, your bankroll dwindles. In addition, you’ll be paying eight coins to play the extra feature in Super Look Ahead Poker video poker. But you’ll only be getting paid at a five-coin level, so you’ll need significant winning hands on a semi-regular basis to stay afloat.

The following article tells you everything you need to know about Super Look Ahead Poker. You’ll learn how to play video poker in its most basic form before we talk about the twist. And you’ll also get the lowdown on pay tables, payback percentage and strategy.

Playing Basic Video Poker

If you’ve never played video poker before, it’s probably not a good idea to jump right into Super Look Ahead Poker video poker. Instead, you should first learn the basics of video poker. Then, you can move on to games with twists and special features in them.

The good news is that learning video poker is a snap, even if you’ve never played poker with a deck of cards before. If you do have some video poker experience, you should be able to jump right in and start immediately.

As for the newcomers, you’re going to love video poker. It combines all the best elements of table games and slot machines. And it does so with a game that pays you back at a very competitive level.

People sometimes lump video poker in with slot machines because you can usually find them in the same parts of the casino. And, like slot machines, you can play video poker on your own. You won’t get any hassles from other people in the casino.

But video poker outperforms slot machines in most other ways. You can actually use strategy to somewhat control play in video poker. Slot machines don’t afford you that chance.

Compare that to slot machines, which leave you in the dark about the frequency of winning spins and your payback percentage. Video poker is essentially much more transparent, not to mention more lucrative, than slot machines.

On top of that, video poker makes for the ideal online gambling experience. You can play many of the top brands of video poker on a small screen like a phone or tablet and lose none of the experience. With the prevalence of gambling websites, you can win real money doing it as well.

Knowing all that, we understand if you want to learn to play. Let’s take a look at the process of playing video poker.

Step 1: The Bankroll

Your bankroll comes from the money that you put into the machine at the start of play. For those playing online, your bankroll is the account that you fund at your gambling website of choice.

Money that you put into a video poker machine will show up on the screen as coins or credits. Every one of these units will be equal in monetary value to the denomination of the machine that you’re playing.

In other words, imagine that you’re playing a 25-cent machine. A bet of five credits on that machine would be worth $1.25, which is 5 times .25. If you won 20 credits, it would be a win of $5, or 20 times .25.

Knowing that information will help you decide how big your bankroll needs to be. You should also realize that you’ll be able to play video poker pretty quickly once you learn how, often at a rate of four or five hands per minute. Keep that in mind to create a bankroll that will let you sit at a machine for a while, if that’s what you’d like to do.

Step 2: The Bet

Here’s one of the areas where Super Look Ahead Poker video poker differs from common video poker machines. Most video poker machines (and online games) let you bet between one and five credits. But Super Look Ahead Poker also gives you the chance to bet eight coins per hand.

If you do make such a wager, you will be unlocking the Super Look Ahead Poker video poker bonus feature. You can switch your bet up before every hand, although we recommend that you go with that eight-coin bet every time. Such a bet gives you the highest expected payback percentage in the game.

If you do decide to play the game without the extra feature, we suggest that you at least bet five coins per hand. That bet will ensure that you get the highest payback for the royal flush, which is the most lucrative hand in all of video poker. Betting one through four coins will only cost you winnings if you’re lucky enough to score a royal flush.

Step 3: The Hand

Imagine that there’s a computerized deck of 52 cards always shuffling inside the software of a video poker machine. At the moment, you make your bet and hit the “Deal” button, the top five cards will be dealt to you. When you later hit the “Draw” button, the 47 cards remaining in the deck will cease their shuffling so you can receive the top cards, however many you want.

That’s essentially how video poker works. Every deal and draw is random. Don’t go looking for patterns or believing in a hot or cold streak, because that’s not really how the game works.

Video poker uses these shuffling cards to approximate the table game known as Five-Card Draw Poker. In this variation, you’re trying to make the best hand at the table out of a five-card deal and a subsequent draw where you replace cards from your hand with others. If you can’t do that, you can still win by bluffing your way into victory.

But there are no bluffs in video poker. Nor do you have to worry about what other players have. You simply have to worry about what you have, in terms of comparing it to the winning hands on the pay table.

Many pay tables differ in terms of the winning hands that they honor. But, for the most part, you will be striving for the following hands when playing video poker:

• 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)

Those hands run in order from easiest to achieve on the top to hardest to achieve on bottom. In terms of payback, the hands at the top pay the least and the ones at the bottom pay the most. In other words, the rarer the hand, the higher it pays.

When you receive your five-card deal, assess whether any of the cards form one of those winning combinations. If so, and you don’t think you can do any better (or don’t want to risk it), you can hold all of the cards in your hand. When you do that, the draw will essentially be null and the deal will be your final hand.

In most cases, however, you won’t have a winning hand on the deal. Luckily, the draw lets you replace the cards that you don’t think are helping your hand. The deck will be holding only 47 cards at that point. The five you were dealt won’t be included.

Your goal in making your choices will be to judge your chances of making winning hands based on what you have on the deal, against the payouts for those winning hands. In some cases, you will be wise to play it safe and go for a hand you can reasonably make on the draw. It might not pay much, but it won’t be a losing hand either.

Remember that you can hold all five cards, discard all five cards, or do any combination of holds and discards out of your deal. Once you make that decision, you’ll have to press the buttons below the cards you want to hold then press the draw button. If you don’t want to hold anything, simply press the draw button and all five will be discarded.

The machine will make the replacements on the draw to finish the hand. Credits that you bet will be deducted at the start of each hand. Meanwhile, winnings will be added at the completion of the hand.

To continue playing in this manner, simply repeat steps 2 and 3 as long as you have credits left. You can also cash out your credits at any time to complete play.

Now you know how to play video poker at its most basic level. With that in mind, let’s move on to talk about the extra feature of Super Look Ahead Poker video poker.

The Super Look Ahead Poker Twist

Betting one through five coins in Super Look Ahead Poker video poker allows you to play the game without any extra feature. You can still choose from a wide variety of pay tables (more on that below).

But, if you choose, you can also make an eight-coin wager at the start of the hand. If you do, you’ll activate the twist to Super Look Ahead Poker video poker. And that twist gives you an advantage that few other video poker games would yield to you.

You essentially get to see the first card that would be coming to you on the draw. Then, you get to decide if that’s the card you want to see on the draw.

If it is, you can accept it and receive it in the first position on the left of the hand where a card has been discarded. Or you can reject it. Should you do that, the draw will take place with the revealed card being thrown out and another card from the deck replacing it.

Let’s take a look at an example to illustrate this phenomenon. Imagine that you received these five cards on the deal:

Although there are no winning combinations on this deal, you do have several intriguing possibilities. You can play the pair of sixes and discard everything else. This would open up two pair, three of a kind, a full house, or even four of a kind.

You could also throw out one of the sixes and keep everything else. Doing this would give you an open-ended straight draw. Open-ended simply means that you can make the straight by drawing the rank in front of the line (a three) or the back (an eight).

Finally, you might have noticed that the four, five, and six of spades leave you just two shy of both a flush and a straight flush. If you get really lucky on the draw holding these cards, you could conceivably end up with a straight flush. That’s one of the highest-paying hands in all of video poker.

So, what you do? Well, if you bet eight coins at the start of the hand, you’ll have a better idea of what the answer should be.

If you did make the extra bet in Super Look Ahead Poker video poker, a small card will appear face up just to the left of the ones that you were dealt. This is the card that will show up first on the draw if you accept it. Let’s talk about some hypothetical cards to see how this might work.

What if the card were the two of spades? That would give you four cards to both a flush and a straight flush. It would be wise to accept this card and throw out the six of hearts and seven of clubs.

What if the card were the five of hearts? Again, this would be one worth accepting because it gives you two pair. By getting rid of the four and seven, you’d definitely have the two pair in hand and you could conceivably draw to a full house with another five or six.

Finally, what if that look-ahead card were the ten of diamonds? That would be an example of a card worth rejecting. It would do none of the possible winning combinations any good.

It would be better to throw it out and go into the draw with the next card in the deck, even if you don’t know what it is. In that case, you would make your decision on what to hold and what to discard as if you were playing video poker in the normal fashion.

As you can imagine, the ability to look ahead and decide whether or not to accept that card is of great benefit. That’s why you have to bet eight coins to get it, even though you will only be paid at a five-coin wager level. You are essentially paying the three extra coins as a fee for the Super Look Ahead Poker video poker special feature.

Pay Tables in Super Look Ahead Poker Video Poker

As we mentioned above, Super Look Ahead Poker video poker allows you to play on a number of different pay tables. You can choose from among the following:

• Jacks or Better
• Bonus Poker
• Bonus Deluxe
• Double Bonus
• Double Double Bonus
• Triple Double Bonus
• Deuces Wild
• Bonus Deuces Wild

Each of these pay tables contains unique amounts for paying off specific hands to set it apart from the others. You should choose the pay table based on what style of video poker you’d like to play.

For example, Jacks or Better is considered a pay table with low volatility. That means you can play it for a long time without a huge bankroll. For the most part, your bankroll won’t sink too low too fast, but it also won’t soar in a hurry either.

As you go down the list above through all of the Bonus Poker pay tables, the volatility rises significantly. That’s because these pay tables tend to pay more for the rare hands (usually the four of a kind) and less for common hands. You can expect bigger swings between winning and losing because of that.

What style would you prefer? Keep in mind that the Super Look Ahead Poker video poker setup makes for a volatile style of play to start. The size of the bet creates that.

As a result, you might want to choose a Jacks or Better pay table to balance out that volatility. Or you can really lean into it with one of the Bonus Poker games.

By the way, Deuces Wild and Bonus Deuces Wild are played with wild cards. Whenever you get one of the twos in the deck in these games, you can turn them into whatever card helps your hand the most. Wild card games add another level of excitement to Super Look Ahead Poker video poker.

Here are a few examples of potential pay tables you may see when playing Super Look Ahead Video Poker:

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	120	240	360	480	600
4 of a kind	30	60	90	120	150
Full house	9	18	27	36	45
Flush	7	14	21	28	35
Straight	4	8	12	16	20
3 of a kind	3	6	9	12	15
2 pairs	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	250	500	750	1000	4000
Straight Flush	50	100	150	200	250
Four of a Kind (Aces)	100	200	300	400	500
Four of a Kind (2s, 3s, 4s)	60	120	180	240	300
Four of a Kind (Any Other)	30	60	90	120	150
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 of Better	1	2	3	4	5

Double Bonus Poker 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)	200	400	600	800	1000
Four of a Kind (2s, 3s, 4s)	120	240	360	480	600
Four of a Kind (Any Other)	60	120	180	240	300
Full House	10	20	30	40	50
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 of Better	1	2	3	4	5

You should also realize that there are lesser paying versions of these tables on some Super Look Ahead Poker video poker machines. These pay tables will reduce the payout for some key hands. As a result, you can expect these pay tables to lower the payback percentages from the ones listed above.

What is payback percentage? Well it measures how much a player can expect from his bankroll on a given machine. This calculation comes from combining the probabilities of making winning hands with the payback those hands will earn.

In the case of the full-pay tables for Super Look Ahead Poker video poker listed above, they all have payback percentages at over 99%. You can’t do too much better than that in the video poker world.

Think about it. If you’re returning over 99% of your bankroll, you’re losing less than 1%. You can compensate for those small losses by earning loyalty rewards from casinos or top gambling websites.

Payback percentage won’t mean much if you’re a casual player. If you are, luck will usually be the determining factor of how much you win or lose.

But hard-core players should be concerned about payback percentage. After a while, your luck will even out, for good and bad. That will leave you with returns that mirror whatever the payback percentage suggests.

Strategy for Super Look Ahead Poker Video Poker

Strategy looms large in video poker because proper video poker strategy is the only way you can max out that payback percentage that we mentioned. You might get away with making choices about which cards to hold and which to discard that diminish the expected value of the hand in the short run. Your good luck on the draw might outweigh your incorrect decision.

But to make the most out of video poker in the long haul, you need to make the decision that brings the highest expected value to the hand. That means, if you played a certain deal an infinite amount of times, the combination of holds and discards that you choose would return you more money than any other combination.

How can you learn the right mathematical play when there are so many potential deals and so many potential pay tables? And what about when you take the Super Look Ahead Poker video poker into account? Does that affect the strategy at all?

You can get all the answers you need from two sources. But first of all, choose the pay table that you feel most comfortable playing in the Super Look Ahead Poker video poker format. This will lessen your load in terms of learning strategy.

Once you’ve done that, consider one of the two methods of video poker instruction below.

Training Software

If you buy good video poker training software, you can customize your instruction to a specific pay table. You should also be able to program in a twist like the one featured in Super Look Ahead Poker video poker. This will allow you to simulate play exactly.

Once you have all that in place, you will be confronted with the same decisions about holds and discards that you will be when playing Super Look Ahead Poker video poker for real money. When you make a wrong decision, the software will let you know the right one. After practicing a while, you’ll have all the right moves.

Strategy Charts

Strategy charts do all the mathematical work for you and present you with all the information you need. You just have to memorize it, since casinos will often frown on you bringing the chart into the casino with you to play Super Look Ahead Poker video poker. Even if they didn’t, consulting it on every hand would slow you down.

The strategy chart will list all possible combinations or cards you might receive on the deal while ranking them from most to least valuable. You can then compare what you have in your hand to the list so you know what to hold and discard. As for the Super Look Ahead Poker video poker twist, imagine that the revealed card is part of your hand so you’ll know, from the chart, whether to accept or reject it.

Conclusion

With Super Look Ahead Poker video poker, you’re getting the chance to sneak a peek. You’re even getting to decide, to some extent, what you’ll get on the draw. With advantages like those, it’s no wonder that you’ll have to bet a little extra to enjoy them.