Choose a paytable, pick the five cards you were dealt, and this tells you which cards to hold and what
that play is worth. The answer comes from a precomputed solution of every distinct hand under optimal
play, so it is right even in the awkward cases where the common strategy charts disagree.
1. Select payout table
Choose a paytable to see its payout structure and to analyze hands against its optimal strategy.
Jacks or Better 9/6 - paytable 976-50-25-9-6-4-3-2-1 payouts
Hand
Payout (1 coin)
Royal Flush
976
Straight Flush
50
Four of a Kind
25
Full House
9
Flush
6
Straight
4
Three of a Kind
3
Two Pair
2
Jacks or Better
1
2. Select your hand
Click five cards from the deck below to form your hand.
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Your hand
Optimal play
How it works
There are 2,598,960 possible five-card hands, but most are the same problem wearing different suits: a
four-card heart flush plays exactly like a four-card spade flush. Relabelling the suits in a fixed order
collapses those into 134,459 distinct cases per paytable, which is small enough to solve once and store.
Your hand is relabelled the same way, looked up, and the answer translated back into your actual cards.
The expected value shown is per coin wagered under optimal play from this point. A value above 1.0 means
the hand is worth more than you bet, which happens on already-made hands, not on the deal in general.
