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Colorado Deuces Wild Strategy Card

A free printable strategy card for the 800-200-25-16-13-4-3-2-2-1 paytable. Followed exactly it returns 96.5524% of everything you bet, against 96.7651% for perfect play — a gap of 0.2126 percentage points, or one five-coin bet every 470 hands. That number is measured over all 2,598,960 deals, not estimated.

This card is for 800-200-25-16-13-4-3-2-2-1 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.

Deuces Wild Colorado strategy card: the 800-200-25-16-13-4-3-2-2-1 paytable across the top, then 38 hold rules in order, returning 96.5524% against 96.7651% for perfect play.
The front of the Colorado 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 38 96.5524% 0.2126 470 hands Letter · A4
Short card — bigger type, fewer lines 5 x 7 in, 4 x 6 in or 3.5 x 5 in 32 96.5128% 0.2522 396 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, 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

HandPays (per coin, five coins bet)
Royal flush 800
Straight flush 200
Four of a kind 25
Full house 16
Flush 13
Straight 4
Three of a kind 3
Two pair 2
Jacks or better 2
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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 Two deuces and 2 to a straight flush 6 ways 4
14 One deuce and 3 to a royal flush 4
15 Two deuces and 2 to a straight flush 5 ways, 4 ways 4
16 Two deuces and nothing else 2
17 Full house 5
18 One deuce and two pair 5
19 One deuce and 3 to a straight flush except open 4
20 4 to a straight flush open 4
21 One deuce and 3 to a straight flush open 4
22 Flush 5
23 Straight 5
24 Three of a kind 3
25 One deuce and a pair 3
26 4 to a straight flush inside 4
27 3 to a royal flush 3
28 One deuce and 2 to a straight flush 6 ways 3
29 One deuce and 2 to a royal flush 3
30 One deuce and 2 to a straight flush 5 ways 3
31 One deuce and nothing else 1
32 3 to a straight flush 4 ways 3
33 One pair 2
34 4 to a flush 4
35 4 to a straight open 4
36 3 to a straight flush 3 ways, open 3
37 4 to a straight inside 4
38 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 Colorado 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
25/15/6/4/4/3 800-200-25-15-6-4-4-3-2-1 1.6699 25/15/6/4/4/3
25/10/7/4/4/2 800-200-25-10-7-4-4-2-2-1 1.3588 25/12/8/4/4/2
25/12/7/4/4/2 800-200-25-12-7-4-4-2-2-1 1.3519 25/12/8/4/4/2
25/15/8/4/4/3 800-200-25-15-8-4-4-3-2-1 1.2904 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
20/10/8/4/4/3 800-200-20-10-8-4-4-3-2-1 1.2710 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
300/20/12/10/4/4/3 800-300-20-12-10-4-4-3-2-1 1.2370 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
Illinois 800-200-25-15-9-4-4-3-2-1 1.1651 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
25/16/9/4/4/3 800-200-25-16-9-4-4-3-2-1 1.1650 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
25/10/8/4/4/2 800-200-25-10-8-4-4-2-2-1 1.1607 25/12/8/4/4/2
20/11/9/4/4/3 800-200-20-11-9-4-4-3-2-1 1.1553 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
25/12/8/4/4/2 800-200-25-12-8-4-4-2-2-1 1.1499 25/12/8/4/4/2
20/12/9/4/4/3 800-200-20-12-9-4-4-3-2-1 1.1446 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
20/15/9/4/4/3 800-200-20-15-9-4-4-3-2-1 1.1236 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
25/15/10/4/4/3 800-200-25-15-10-4-4-3-2-1 1.0768 25/15/11/4/4/3
20/12/10/4/4/3 800-200-20-12-10-4-4-3-2-1 1.0753 20/12/10/4/4/3
Not So Ugly Ducks 800-200-25-16-10-4-4-3-2-1 1.0748 25/15/11/4/4/3
25/15/11/4/4/3 800-200-25-15-11-4-4-3-2-1 1.0226 25/15/11/4/4/3
25/12/9/4/4/2 800-200-25-12-9-4-4-2-2-1 0.9839 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
20/10/8/4/3/3 800-200-20-10-8-4-3-3-2-1 0.7756 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
25/15/9/4/3/3 800-200-25-15-9-4-3-3-2-1 0.6938 25/15/9/4/3/3
20/12/9/5/3/2 800-200-20-12-9-5-3-2-2-1 0.6802 20/12/9/5/3/2
Full Pay 800-200-25-15-9-5-3-2-2-1 0.6670 Full Pay
20/10/8/4/3/2 800-200-20-10-8-4-3-2-2-1 0.6077 Full Pay
25/15/10/4/3/2 800-200-25-15-10-4-3-2-2-1 0.3576 20/12/9/5/3/2

The short card

The same derivation with a line budget: 32 lines instead of 38, set large enough to read in bad light, at a cost of 0.2522 points instead of 0.2126. 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 Two deuces and 2 to a straight flush except 3 ways 4
14 One deuce and 3 to a royal flush 4
15 One deuce and 3 to a straight flush 4
16 Two deuces and nothing else 2
17 Full house 5
18 One deuce and two pair 5
19 Flush 5
20 4 to a straight flush 4
21 Straight 5
22 Three of a kind 3
23 One deuce and a pair 3
24 3 to a royal flush 3
25 One deuce and 2 to a straight flush 6 ways, 5 ways 3
26 One deuce and 2 to a royal flush 3
27 One deuce and nothing else 1
28 One pair 2
29 4 to a flush 4
30 3 to a straight flush 3
31 4 to a straight 4
32 Nothing above — draw five —

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