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25/15/6/4/4/3 Deuces Wild Strategy Card

A free printable strategy card for the 800-200-25-15-6-4-4-3-2-1 paytable. Followed exactly it returns 97.5261% of everything you bet, against 97.6386% for perfect play — a gap of 0.1125 percentage points, or one five-coin bet every 889 hands. That number is measured over all 2,598,960 deals, not estimated.

This card is for 800-200-25-15-6-4-4-3-2-1 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.

Deuces Wild 25/15/6/4/4/3 strategy card: the 800-200-25-15-6-4-4-3-2-1 paytable across the top, then 34 hold rules in order, returning 97.5261% against 97.6386% for perfect play.
The front of the 25/15/6/4/4/3 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 or 4 x 6 in 34 97.5261% 0.1125 889 hands Letter · A4
Short card — bigger type, fewer lines 5 x 7 in or 4 x 6 in 33 97.4839% 0.1547 647 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 or 4 x 6 in, the short card at 5 x 7 in or 4 x 6 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

HandPays (per coin, five coins bet)
Royal flush 800
Straight flush 200
Four of a kind 25
Full house 15
Flush 6
Straight 4
Three of a kind 4
Two pair 3
Jacks or better 2
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.

#HoldCards
1 Four deuces 4
2 Natural royal flush 5
3 Wild royal flush 5
4 4 to a royal flush 4
5 Five of a kind 5
6 Three deuces and a pair 5
7 Three deuces and nothing else 3
8 Straight flush 5
9 Four of a kind 4
10 One deuce and three of a kind 4
11 Two deuces and a pair 4
12 Two deuces and 2 to a royal flush 4
13 Full house 5
14 One deuce and two pair 5
15 One deuce and 3 to a royal flush 4
16 Flush 5
17 Two deuces and nothing else 2
18 Straight 5
19 Three of a kind 3
20 One deuce and a pair 3
21 One deuce and 3 to a straight flush 4
22 3 to a royal flush 3
23 4 to a straight flush 4
24 One deuce and 2 to a royal flush 3
25 One deuce and 2 to a straight flush 6 ways 3
26 One deuce and nothing else 1
27 4 to a flush 4
28 Two pair 4
29 One pair 2
30 4 to a straight open 4
31 3 to a straight flush 3
32 4 to a straight inside 4
33 2 to a royal flush 2
34 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.

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 25/15/6/4/4/3 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.

MachinePayoutsThis card gives upIts own card
Colorado 800-200-25-16-13-4-3-2-2-1 0.9362 Colorado
20/12/9/5/3/2 800-200-20-12-9-5-3-2-2-1 0.6981 20/12/9/5/3/2
Full Pay 800-200-25-15-9-5-3-2-2-1 0.5727 Full Pay
25/15/11/4/4/3 800-200-25-15-11-4-4-3-2-1 0.5131 25/15/11/4/4/3
20/12/10/4/4/3 800-200-20-12-10-4-4-3-2-1 0.4684 20/12/10/4/4/3
25/15/10/4/3/2 800-200-25-15-10-4-3-2-2-1 0.4575 20/12/9/5/3/2
300/20/12/10/4/4/3 800-300-20-12-10-4-4-3-2-1 0.4346 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
20/10/8/4/3/2 800-200-20-10-8-4-3-2-2-1 0.4110 Full Pay
25/12/9/4/4/2 800-200-25-12-9-4-4-2-2-1 0.3619 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
25/15/10/4/4/3 800-200-25-15-10-4-4-3-2-1 0.3576 25/15/11/4/4/3
Not So Ugly Ducks 800-200-25-16-10-4-4-3-2-1 0.3505 25/15/11/4/4/3
20/11/9/4/4/3 800-200-20-11-9-4-4-3-2-1 0.3440 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
25/10/8/4/4/2 800-200-25-10-8-4-4-2-2-1 0.3394 25/12/8/4/4/2
20/12/9/4/4/3 800-200-20-12-9-4-4-3-2-1 0.3282 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
25/10/7/4/4/2 800-200-25-10-7-4-4-2-2-1 0.3279 25/12/8/4/4/2
25/12/8/4/4/2 800-200-25-12-8-4-4-2-2-1 0.3183 25/12/8/4/4/2
25/12/7/4/4/2 800-200-25-12-7-4-4-2-2-1 0.3107 25/12/8/4/4/2
25/15/9/4/3/3 800-200-25-15-9-4-3-3-2-1 0.2928 25/15/9/4/3/3
20/15/9/4/4/3 800-200-20-15-9-4-4-3-2-1 0.2918 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
20/10/8/4/3/3 800-200-20-10-8-4-3-3-2-1 0.2875 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
20/10/8/4/4/3 800-200-20-10-8-4-4-3-2-1 0.2553 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
Illinois 800-200-25-15-9-4-4-3-2-1 0.2364 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
25/16/9/4/4/3 800-200-25-16-9-4-4-3-2-1 0.2312 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
25/15/8/4/4/3 800-200-25-15-8-4-4-3-2-1 0.1521 300/20/12/10/4/4/3

The short card

The same derivation with a line budget: 33 lines instead of 34, set large enough to read in bad light, at a cost of 0.1547 points instead of 0.1125. Whether that trade is worth it is yours to make, which is why both numbers are printed on both cards.

#HoldCards
1 Four deuces 4
2 Natural royal flush 5
3 Wild royal flush 5
4 4 to a royal flush 4
5 Five of a kind 5
6 Three deuces and a pair 5
7 Three deuces and nothing else 3
8 Straight flush 5
9 Four of a kind 4
10 One deuce and three of a kind 4
11 Two deuces and a pair 4
12 Two deuces and 2 to a royal flush 4
13 Full house 5
14 One deuce and two pair 5
15 One deuce and 3 to a royal flush 4
16 Flush 5
17 Two deuces and nothing else 2
18 Straight 5
19 Three of a kind 3
20 One deuce and a pair 3
21 One deuce and 3 to a straight flush 4
22 3 to a royal flush 3
23 4 to a straight flush 4
24 One deuce and 2 to a royal flush 3
25 One deuce and 2 to a straight flush 6 ways 3
26 One deuce and nothing else 1
27 4 to a flush 4
28 Two pair 4
29 One pair 2
30 4 to a straight 4
31 3 to a straight flush 3
32 2 to a royal flush 2
33 Nothing above — draw five —

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