Video Poker table

Hold the unsuited Ace, King, and Queen; three high cards is the highest-EV draw with no pair or made hand.

Hold the pair of sevens only; a low pair has higher expected value than keeping the king or drawing to nothing.

Hold the pair of jacks and discard the three unmatched low cards; a made jacks-or-better is the highest-EV keep.

Pair of jacks is a paying hand; no flush or straight draw is worth breaking it, so hold both jacks and draw three.

Three sevens already pays; keep the trips and discard both kickers to chase a full house or four of a kind.

9-T-J-Q is an open-ended straight; holding those four returns about 0.81 per credit, better than the three-spade straight-flush draw or high-card holds.

Hold the pair of sixes; a low pair is the best draw here and outranks any partial straight or flush.

Low pair of fours is the best hold; the other cards do not form a paying draw worth breaking the pair.

No made hand or four-card draw. A lone queen returns more than the three low hearts to a flush or any kicker hold, so discard the rest.

Low pair of fives is the best hold; discard the unsuited kickers, including the jack, since a low pair outranks a single high card or a three-card straight draw.

Low pair of deuces is the only paying seed; no flush or straight draw, so keep both twos and draw three.

Hold the pair of aces; it already pays and draws to trips, full house, and quads better than any flush or straight alternative here.

Low pair of sixes is the best hold; three-card club or straight draws and the lone jack are worth less than drawing three to the pair.

Hold the pair of threes and draw three. A low pair returns about 4.39 credits, well above the 3-card straight-flush draw (3c-4c-5c) at about 3.08.

The deuces are only a low pair, but drawing three to them returns about 0.82 per credit, ahead of the ace-king suited royal draw and the three-spade flush draw.

Hold the pair of queens, a made jacks-or-better hand. Drawing three cards is the highest-EV option; the three hearts are not worth breaking the pair.

Low pair of sixes does not pay, but holding both sixes and drawing three is the highest-EV pattern versus drawing to the king or junk.

Hold the pair of jacks and discard the three low offsuit cards; drawing three to jacks or better is the highest-EV play.

Pair of kings is a made jacks-or-better; hold both kings and draw three for trips, full house, or quads.

Pair of sixes is the only made value; low pairs are held alone in Jacks or Better, so the jack and off cards are discarded.

Holding J-T-K of diamonds, three cards to a royal flush, is the highest-EV draw from this hand.

Pair of nines is the only paying seed; no straight or flush draw, so hold the pair and draw three.

Hold only the jack, the sole high card; the rest form no pair or playable draw.

2345 is an 8-out straight draw (A or 6, ace-low allowed) worth about 0.68 return; that beats holding only the king.

Hold the pair of eights; low pair is the best made hand and outranks any one-card draws among the remaining cards.

Pair of kings is a made jacks-or-better hand; hold both kings and draw three. No flush or straight draw is strong enough to break the pair.

Hold the low pair of sevens; its draw EV beats the three-diamond flush draw and all smaller partial holds.

No pair, flush draw, or straight draw. Holding only the king is the highest-EV pattern, keeping the jacks-or-better pair chance.

Hold the suited ace and jack; drawing three cards to that two-card royal is the highest-EV option.

Four hearts to a flush returns about 1.21 per credit, beating the low pair and every mixed hold that keeps the sixes.