9/6 (500 RF, 100 SF, 30 4K, 2 Trips) Jacks or Better Strategy Card

A free printable strategy card for the 500-100-30-9-6-4-2-2-1 paytable. Followed exactly it returns 93.1944% of everything you bet, against 93.2047% for perfect play — a gap of 0.0103 percentage points, or one five-coin bet every 9,746 hands. That number is measured over all 2,598,960 deals, not estimated.

This card is for 500-100-30-9-6-4-2-2-1 only.

A strategy card is only right for the paytable it was built for. Read the full house and flush payouts off the machine before you use one: 9 and 6 is a different game from 8 and 5, and a multi-denomination machine can change paytable when you change the denomination.

Generated September 22, 2026; the returns below are measured against the solved table as of that date.

Jacks or Better 9/6 (500 RF, 100 SF, 30 4K, 2 Trips) strategy card: the 500-100-30-9-6-4-2-2-1 paytable across the top, then 42 hold rules in order, returning 93.1944% against 93.2047% for perfect play. — The front of the 9/6 (500 RF, 100 SF, 30 4K, 2 Trips) card. The back, the other sizes and the print sheets are in the PDF.

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Card	Lines	Return	Gap	One bet every	PDF
Full card — every line 5 x 7 in	42	93.1944%	0.0103	9,746 hands	Letter · A4
Short card — bigger type, fewer lines 5 x 7 in, 4 x 6 in or 3.5 x 5 in	22	93.1461%	0.0585	1,709 hands	Letter · A4

Each PDF holds the card at every trim it stays readable at, front and back, largest first — the full card at 5 x 7 in, the short card at 5 x 7 in, 4 x 6 in or 3.5 x 5 in. All of them are standard laminating-pouch sizes. Where the 3.5 × 5 fits there is also a cut-and-fold sheet that needs no duplex printing. Free, no email, generated 2026-09-22.

The paytable this card assumes

Hand	Pays (per coin, five coins bet)
Royal flush	500
Straight flush	100
Four of a kind	30
Full house	9
Flush	6
Straight	4
Three of a kind	2
Two pair	2
Jacks or better	1

The hold order, in full

This is what is printed on the front of the full card. Read down; hold the first line your five dealt cards can make. Where one line fits your hand two ways, take the one with more high cards, and if that ties, the lower cards.

#	Hold	Cards
1	Royal flush	5
2	Straight flush	5
3	Four of a kind	4
4	4 to a royal flush	4
5	Full house	5
6	Flush	5
7	4 to a straight flush open, 0–2 high cards	4
8	Straight	5
9	Three of a kind	3
10	4 to a straight flush inside, 0–3 high cards	4
11	Two pair	4
12	High pair (JJ–AA)	2
13	4 to a flush 2–3 high cards	4
14	3 to a royal flush Q-J-T, K-Q-J	3
15	4 to a flush 0–1 high cards	4
16	3 to a royal flush except K-Q-J, Q-J-T	3
17	4 to a straight open, 3 high cards	4
18	3 to a straight flush completes 4 ways, 1 high card	3
19	4 to a straight open, 2 high cards	4
20	3 to a straight flush completes 3 ways, 2 high cards	3
21	4 to a straight open, 1 high card	4
22	3 to a straight flush completes 4 ways, no high cards	3
23	Low pair (22–TT)	2
24	3 to a straight flush completes 3 ways, 1 high card	3
25	4 to a straight open, no high cards	4
26	3 to a straight flush completes 2 ways, 2 high cards	3
27	4 to a straight inside, 4 high cards	4
28	3 to a straight flush completes 3 ways, no high cards	3
29	2 to a royal: Q-J	2
30	3 to a straight flush completes 2 ways, 1 high card	3
31	2 to a royal flush K-J, K-Q, A-J, A-K, A-Q	2
32	4 to a straight inside, 3 high cards	4
33	K-Q-J unsuited	3
34	Q-J unsuited	2
35	3 to a straight flush completes 2 ways, no high cards	3
36	4 to a straight inside, 2 high cards	4
37	2 unsuited high cards except Q-J, A-J	2
38	2 to a royal flush Q-T, J-T	2
39	A-J unsuited	2
40	One high card	1
41	4 to a straight inside, no high cards	4
42	Nothing above — draw five	—

Never hold these

Each one is worth less than throwing all five cards away on this paytable. They are absent from the card because they were priced and lost, not because they were forgotten.

3 to a flush

Using this card on a machine it is not for

Sometimes the machine in front of you is not the one you printed for. This is the 9/6 (500 RF, 100 SF, 30 4K, 2 Trips) full card measured on every other paytable we hold, worst first — the gap between what it returns there and what perfect play returns there. The five worst are the ones to avoid; each of them has its own card on this site.

Machine	Payouts	This card gives up	Its own card
7/5 (1000 RF, 20 4K)	1000-50-20-7-5-4-3-2-1	0.3291	9/6
6/5 (1000 RF)	1000-50-25-6-5-4-3-2-1	0.3285	9/6
8/5 (35 4K)	800-50-35-8-5-4-3-2-1	0.2649	9/5
8/5 (30 4K)	800-50-30-8-5-4-3-2-1	0.2575	9/5
9/5	800-50-25-9-5-4-3-2-1	0.2568	9/5
6/5 (35 4K)	800-50-35-6-5-4-3-2-1	0.2514	9/5
8/5	800-50-25-8-5-4-3-2-1	0.2501	9/5
9/5 (55 SF)	800-55-25-9-5-4-3-2-1	0.2468	9/5
9/6 (976 RF)	976-50-25-9-6-4-3-2-1	0.2455	9/6
7/5	800-50-25-7-5-4-3-2-1	0.2435	9/6
8/5 (55 SF)	800-55-25-8-5-4-3-2-1	0.2401	9/5
6/5	800-50-25-6-5-4-3-2-1	0.2370	9/6
40-20-9-6-5	800-40-20-9-6-5-3-2-1	0.2366	40-20-9-6-5
7/5 (20 4K)	800-50-20-7-5-4-3-2-1	0.2365	9/6
9/6 (940 RF)	940-50-25-9-6-4-3-2-1	0.2248	9/6
9/6 (900 RF)	900-50-25-9-6-4-3-2-1	0.2048	9/6
9/6 (1000 RF, 125 SF, 30 4K, 2 Trips)	1000-125-30-9-6-4-2-2-1	0.2014	9/6 (1000 RF, 125 SF, 30 4K, 2 Trips)
9/6 (1000 RF, 100 SF, 30 4K, 2 Trips)	1000-100-30-9-6-4-2-2-1	0.1811	9/6 (1000 RF, 125 SF, 30 4K, 2 Trips)
9/6 (47.8 SF)	800-47.8-25-9-6-4-3-2-1	0.1667	9/6
9/6	800-50-25-9-6-4-3-2-1	0.1625	9/6
8/6 (29 4K)	800-50-29-8-6-4-3-2-1	0.1617	9/6
9/6 (250 RF)	250-50-25-9-6-4-3-2-1	0.1581	9/6 (500 RF)
8/6 (26 4K)	800-50-26-8-6-4-3-2-1	0.1574	9/6
8/6	800-50-25-8-6-4-3-2-1	0.1559	9/6
9/6 (250 RF, 55 SF)	250-55-25-9-6-4-3-2-1	0.1470	9/6 (500 RF)
8/6 (55 SF)	800-55-25-8-6-4-3-2-1	0.1466	9/6
9/6 (500 RF)	500-50-25-9-6-4-3-2-1	0.1339	9/6 (500 RF)
9/6 (1 2P)	800-50-25-9-6-4-3-1-1	0.1108	9/6 (1 2P)
9/6 (90 SF)	800-90-25-9-6-4-3-2-1	0.1025	9/6

The short card

The same derivation with a line budget: 22 lines instead of 42, set large enough to read in bad light, at a cost of 0.0585 points instead of 0.0103. Whether that trade is worth it is yours to make, which is why both numbers are printed on both cards.

#	Hold	Cards
1	Royal flush	5
2	Straight flush	5
3	Four of a kind	4
4	4 to a royal flush	4
5	Full house	5
6	Flush	5
7	4 to a straight flush	4
8	Straight	5
9	Three of a kind	3
10	Two pair	4
11	High pair (JJ–AA)	2
12	4 to a flush	4
13	3 to a royal flush	3
14	Low pair (22–TT)	2
15	4 to a straight open	4
16	3 to a straight flush	3
17	4 to a straight inside, 3–4 high cards	4
18	2 to a royal flush except Q-T, K-T, A-T	2
19	K-Q-J unsuited	3
20	2 unsuited high cards	2
21	One high card	1
22	Nothing above — draw five	—

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