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25/15/9/4/3/3 Deuces Wild Strategy Card

A free printable strategy card for the 800-200-25-15-9-4-3-3-2-1 paytable. Followed exactly it returns 96.1966% of everything you bet, against 96.3433% for perfect play — a gap of 0.1467 percentage points, or one five-coin bet every 682 hands. That number is measured over all 2,598,960 deals, not estimated.

This card is for 800-200-25-15-9-4-3-3-2-1 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 25/15/9/4/3/3 strategy card: the 800-200-25-15-9-4-3-3-2-1 paytable across the top, then 36 hold rules in order, returning 96.1966% against 96.3433% for perfect play.
The front of the 25/15/9/4/3/3 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 36 96.1966% 0.1467 682 hands Letter · A4
Short card — bigger type, fewer lines 5 x 7 in or 4 x 6 in 34 96.1657% 0.1776 563 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 9
Straight 4
Three of a kind 3
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 One deuce and 3 to a royal flush 4
14 Two deuces and 2 to a straight flush 6 ways 4
15 Two deuces and nothing else 2
16 Full house 5
17 Flush 5
18 One deuce and two pair 5
19 One deuce and 3 to a straight flush except open 4
20 Straight 5
21 Three of a kind 3
22 One deuce and a pair 3
23 One deuce and 3 to a straight flush open 4
24 4 to a straight flush 4
25 3 to a royal flush 3
26 One deuce and 2 to a royal flush 3
27 One deuce and 2 to a straight flush 6 ways 3
28 One deuce and nothing else 1
29 4 to a flush 4
30 3 to a straight flush 4 ways 3
31 One pair 2
32 4 to a straight open 4
33 3 to a straight flush 3 ways, open 3
34 4 to a straight inside 4
35 2 to a royal flush 2
36 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 25/15/9/4/3/3 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
25/10/7/4/4/2 800-200-25-10-7-4-4-2-2-1 0.8508 25/12/8/4/4/2
25/12/7/4/4/2 800-200-25-12-7-4-4-2-2-1 0.8295 25/12/8/4/4/2
20/12/10/4/4/3 800-200-20-12-10-4-4-3-2-1 0.7947 20/12/10/4/4/3
25/10/8/4/4/2 800-200-25-10-8-4-4-2-2-1 0.7900 25/12/8/4/4/2
300/20/12/10/4/4/3 800-300-20-12-10-4-4-3-2-1 0.7865 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
25/15/11/4/4/3 800-200-25-15-11-4-4-3-2-1 0.7657 25/15/11/4/4/3
25/12/8/4/4/2 800-200-25-12-8-4-4-2-2-1 0.7648 25/12/8/4/4/2
20/11/9/4/4/3 800-200-20-11-9-4-4-3-2-1 0.7447 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
25/12/9/4/4/2 800-200-25-12-9-4-4-2-2-1 0.7360 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
20/10/8/4/4/3 800-200-20-10-8-4-4-3-2-1 0.7303 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
25/15/6/4/4/3 800-200-25-15-6-4-4-3-2-1 0.7268 25/15/6/4/4/3
20/12/9/4/4/3 800-200-20-12-9-4-4-3-2-1 0.7268 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
20/15/9/4/4/3 800-200-20-15-9-4-4-3-2-1 0.6843 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
25/15/10/4/4/3 800-200-25-15-10-4-4-3-2-1 0.6826 25/15/11/4/4/3
Not So Ugly Ducks 800-200-25-16-10-4-4-3-2-1 0.6734 25/15/11/4/4/3
Illinois 800-200-25-15-9-4-4-3-2-1 0.6337 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
25/16/9/4/4/3 800-200-25-16-9-4-4-3-2-1 0.6265 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
25/15/8/4/4/3 800-200-25-15-8-4-4-3-2-1 0.6218 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
Colorado 800-200-25-16-13-4-3-2-2-1 0.4693 Colorado
20/12/9/5/3/2 800-200-20-12-9-5-3-2-2-1 0.4211 20/12/9/5/3/2
20/10/8/4/3/2 800-200-20-10-8-4-3-2-2-1 0.3133 Full Pay
Full Pay 800-200-25-15-9-5-3-2-2-1 0.2944 Full Pay
20/10/8/4/3/3 800-200-20-10-8-4-3-3-2-1 0.2191 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
25/15/10/4/3/2 800-200-25-15-10-4-3-2-2-1 0.2097 20/12/9/5/3/2

The short card

The same derivation with a line budget: 34 lines instead of 36, set large enough to read in bad light, at a cost of 0.1776 points instead of 0.1467. 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 One deuce and 3 to a royal flush 4
14 Two deuces and 2 to a straight flush 6 ways 4
15 Two deuces and nothing else 2
16 Full house 5
17 Flush 5
18 One deuce and two pair 5
19 Straight 5
20 One deuce and 3 to a straight flush 4
21 Straight 5
22 Three of a kind 3
23 One deuce and a pair 3
24 4 to a straight flush 4
25 3 to a royal flush 3
26 One deuce and 2 to a royal flush 3
27 One deuce and 2 to a straight flush 6 ways 3
28 One deuce and nothing else 1
29 4 to a flush 4
30 One pair 2
31 3 to a straight flush 3
32 4 to a straight 4
33 2 to a royal flush 2
34 Nothing above — draw five —

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