Video Poker table

Hold the pair of fours; a made pair has the best expected return here, with chances to improve to two pair, trips, full house, or quads.

Hold the two high cards, King and Queen, for strong chances to make a paying high pair, two pair, trips, or better.

Hold the pair of fives; a made pair gives the best expected return here, with draws to trips, two pair, full house, and quads.

Hold the pair of 4s; drawing three cards gives strong chances at trips, two pair, full house, or quads.

Hold the pair of 2s; drawing three cards gives the best expected value through trips, two pair, full houses, and quads.

Hold the lone jack, the only immediate paying-pair draw. The scattered spades do not form a strong enough flush or straight draw.

Hold the pair of sevens; a made pair has the best draw value here, with chances to improve to two pair, trips, full house, or quads.

Hold the pair of aces, a made high-paying pair with strong improvement chances to three/four aces, two pair, or a full house.

Hold the pair of sixes; a made pair provides the strongest draw value here versus the weak straight possibilities.

Hold the pair of aces, a paying high pair with strong improvement chances to three/four of a kind, two pair, or full house.

Hold the three clubs for the flush draw while retaining the ace and queen, which also create strong high-pair, two-pair, and trips possibilities.

Hold the lone king, the only paying high card. The scattered low cards and weak straight/flush fragments do not justify keeping them.

Hold the pair of nines; a made pair has the best draw value here, with chances to improve to two pair, trips, full house, or quads.

Hold the two high cards, ace and king. With no made pair or strong straight/flush draw, they provide the best payout potential.

Hold the pair of sixes; a made pair has stronger expected value than drawing to the two unpaired high cards.

Hold the pair of twos; a made pair has the strongest draw value here, with chances to improve to three/four of a kind, two pair, or a full house.

Hold the pair of aces, a made high-paying pair with strong improvement chances to trips, two pair, full house, or quads.

Hold the ace as the lone high card; drawing four maximizes chances to make a paying high pair or stronger hand.

Hold the four diamonds: one more diamond completes a flush, with additional redraw outcomes producing trips or two pair.

No paying pair, four-card draw, or strong suited draw is present. Redrawing all five cards has the best expected value.

Hold the pair of twos; drawing three cards offers strong chances to improve to trips, two pair, full house, or quads.

Hold the two high cards, jack and queen. This preserves strong chances for paying pairs, two pair/trips, and several straight possibilities while drawing three cards.

Hold the pair of eights; the pair provides the strongest draw value and can improve to trips, two pair, full house, or quads.

Hold the two high cards, jack and ace, for strong chances at a paying high pair and improvements to two pair, trips, or better.

Hold the pair of kings, a made paying pair with strong improvement chances to three/four of a kind, two pair, or full house.

Hold the suited ace and jack: two high cards retain pair value and add royal-flush and flush potential.

Hold the two high cards, ace and king, for the strongest pair/two-pair and high-card improvement potential.

No made paying hand or strong draw is present. Discard all five to maximize chances at a full paying hand.

No paying pair, four-card draw, or strong suited/straight draw is present. Drawing five maximizes the expected value versus retaining these low disconnected cards.

Hold the three tens to maximize chances at four of a kind, a full house, or a paying pair improvement.

Hold the two high cards, King and Queen, for the strongest draw toward paying pairs, two pair, trips, and premium hands.

Hold the three-card ace-low straight flush draw (Ah-2h-3h), which has strong straight, flush, and straight-flush potential.

Hold the lone queen as a high card; its redraw value is stronger than the low-value four-card gutshot straight draw.

Hold the pair of threes; a made pair has the strongest expected value here, with chances to improve to trips, two pair, full house, or quads.

Hold the aces and sevens (two pair) and draw one card for strong full-house or four-of-a-kind improvement chances.

Hold the high pair of kings; it already pays and has strong improvement chances to trips, two pair, full house, or quads.

Hold the pair of sevens; a low pair has better expected value than drawing one card to an open-ended straight.

Hold the two high cards, J and T, for strong pair, two-pair, straight, and high-card improvement potential.

Hold the suited ace-ten, preserving two cards toward a royal flush while retaining high-card pair potential.