Video Poker table

Keep the three unsuited high cards: they offer several chances to make a paying high pair, and can also complete a straight.

Keep the pair of sevens for the best chance to improve to three of a kind, two pair, or a full house.

Keep the pair of jacks; drawing three cards offers the strongest expected return.

Keep the pair of nines; drawing three cards to improve it has better expected value than pursuing the weak suited or straight possibilities.

Keep the pair of jacks for the strongest expected payout.

Hold the three of a kind and draw two cards; this maximizes the chance of improving to a full house or four of a kind.

Hold the four-card open-ended straight draw 9-T-J-Q; an 8 or K completes it.

Keep the pair of eights; drawing three cards gives the strongest expected return.

Keep the pair of sixes; drawing three cards gives several ways to improve to a paying hand, with better expected value than the four-card inside-straight draw.

Keep the pair of fours; its expected payout is higher than drawing to the three-spade flush possibility.

Keep the queen: drawing four cards gives the best chance to make a paying jacks-or-better pair or better.

Keep the pair of fives; drawing three cards to a low pair has better expected value than pursuing the weaker straight or flush possibilities.

Keep the jack as the strongest paying-pair draw; the three-club draw is less valuable than holding the high card.

Keep the dealt pair; drawing three cards gives the best expected value by pursuing trips, two pair, or a full house.

Hold the four-card open-ended straight draw (2, 4, 5, 6); a 3 or 7 completes it.

Hold the pair of aces; it has higher expected value than the three-card heart flush draw.

Keep the pair of sixes; drawing three cards to improve a made pair has higher expected value than keeping the jack or the three-card club holding.

Keep the low pair; drawing three cards gives the best expected value compared with pursuing the suited connector.

Keep the pair of deuces: it has strong draw potential to two pair, three of a kind, or four of a kind, and is preferable to the three-card spade draw.

Keep the pair of queens; it has stronger expected value than the three-card heart flush draw.

Keep the dealt pair of sixes; drawing three cards to improve it has higher expected value than pursuing the lone king or discarding all five cards.

Keep the suited ten-jack to pursue high-pair, straight, flush, and straight-flush draws.

Keep the pair of jacks; discard the three kickers to draw for trips, two pair, or a stronger hand.

Hold the pair of kings, which guarantees a paying high pair and has the strongest expected value; discard the other three cards.

Keep the two unpaired high cards, J and K, to draw for a paying high pair or better.

Keep the pair of sixes; it gives the best drawing value, while the jack is not part of a high pair or a strong draw.

Keep the three suited ten-through-king cards for the royal-flush draw and other strong diamond draws.

Hold the two unsuited high cards, ace and jack, for the strongest chance of a paying high pair or better.

Keep 9-J-Q-K: drawing a ten completes a straight, while a jack, queen, or king gives a paying high pair. Discard the 6.

Keep the pair of nines; drawing three cards to a made pair has the best expected return here.

Keep the jack as a high card; the other four cards do not form a strong enough draw to keep over it.

Hold the four-card open-ended straight draw; an ace or 6 completes the straight.

Hold the pair of eights; drawing three cards to improve a made pair is better than pursuing the incomplete straight possibilities.

Keep the pair of kings for the strongest made hand and its chances to improve to two pair, trips, a full house, or quads.

Keep the pair of sevens to draw for trips, two pair, or better; the three-card flush draw is weaker.

Keeping the three clubs preserves a strong flush draw while retaining two high cards that can also make a paying pair.

Hold the king as the lone high card; the other cards offer no pair or strong draw.

Keep the three suited ten-through-king cards: they give a strong chance at a flush, straight flush, or high-paying royal flush. This has higher expected value than keeping the four-card straight draw.

Keep the suited ace and jack: they offer a chance at a flush or royal flush while retaining high-pair potential. This has greater expected value than the gutshot straight draw.

Keep the four hearts for a strong flush draw; this has better expected value than holding the low pair of sixes.