Microgaming Video Poker

Microgaming video poker software is used by over 125 online casinos worldwide. Games powered by Microgaming have some of the most competitive payout percentages across the board. Microgaming helped found the eCOGRA gambling regulation authority, which monitors international online gaming to assure high standards of conduct. Microgaming continued to power online casinos who accepted USA based players until late 2008 (from 39 states, anyway), because they are not a publicly traded company. However, their online casinos stopped accepting US wagers in November 2008.

You will find all of the most popular video poker games powered by Microgaming. Among these are Jacks or Better, Aces and Eights, Tens or Better, Joker Poker, Deuces & Joker Wild and Aces and Faces. Below is a comparison of the return percentages on these 6 video poker games Microgaming, as well as a few others. The payback percentages below assume the use of perfect strategy.

Video Poker Game Return Percentage Expected

This chart helps explain why Jacks or Better is the most popular form of video poker. While Microgaming percentages aren't the same as across the video poker industry, non-Microgaming Jacks or Better tends to have a better return than most other video poker machines.

Microgaming Jacks or Better Video Poker

Microgaming Jacks or Better is less than one-half of 1% below 100% expectation. This means that you can join a players club and look for comps to make up the difference. Depending on the online casino, you might be able to play Jacks or Better at a positive expectation.

Aces and Faces has the next-best percentage. You might note that, generally, the more wildcards a game has, the lower its expectation might be. Deuces Wild, the second most popular video poker game in just about any casino, is the lowest at under 97%.

4 of the top 6 Microgaming video poker games have an expectation over 99%, though. That means casinos powered by Microgaming have some of the best video poker setups in the industry.

Of all of the games, only Deuces Wild is below 98% payouts. If you want to play Deuces Wild, then stick with the multi hand version. It pays out a full 2.60% better than the single hand Deuces Wild machine.

Microgaming Progressive Video Poker

Microgaming online casinos offers progressive jackpot machines too. The foremost one of these is Supajax, based on the classic Jacks or Better video poker game.

Supajax Video Poker

Supajax looks and plays a lot like Jacks or Better. The difference is this game include a Supajax card. This extra card fills out only one hand, the progressive jackpot hand.

If you fill out a hand including the 4 Jacks and the Supajax card, you win a progressive jackpot. This is part of a progressive jackpot network, so the Supajax progressive is usually pretty huge.

Microgaming on the Internet

• Microgaming's official site
• Microgaming software review from the Wizard of Odds
• List of Microgaming casinos from CasinoCity
• Wikipedia Microgaming article
• Microgaming Video Poker at Video Poker Genius

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