12/22/2023 0 Comments Magic poker machine![]() He’d asked me to take a look at his video poker floor and tell me where he could improve, but wanted to point out his 9-6 machines as a starting point. ![]() Still, “9-6” became such a buzz word for good video poker that a casino executive once proudly showed me his 9-6 video poker games. As many people were playing the 8-5 games as the 9-6ers. Now, 9-6 Jacks or Better pays 99.5 percent with expert play, compared with 97.3 for the 8-5 version, so my wife Marcy and I were surprised that people seemed to be playing them indiscriminately. Next to a 9-6 machine would be one with an 8-5 pay table, then 9-6, then 8-5 and so on. I used to frequent a casino that had a long bank of Jacks or Better machines that alternated pay tables. ![]() The game that put video poker on the map in the 1980s was “Jacks or Better.” And as it gained in popularity, the word spread that the best games had “9-6” pay tables, meaning they paid 9-for-1 on full houses and 6-for-1 on flushes. ![]()
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