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Full Pay Deuces Wild Strategy Card

A free printable strategy card for the 800-200-25-15-9-5-3-2-2-1 paytable. Followed exactly it returns 100.6083% of everything you bet, against 100.7620% for perfect play — a gap of 0.1536 percentage points, or one five-coin bet every 651 hands. That number is measured over all 2,598,960 deals, not estimated.

This card is for 800-200-25-15-9-5-3-2-2-1 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 Full Pay strategy card: the 800-200-25-15-9-5-3-2-2-1 paytable across the top, then 34 hold rules in order, returning 100.6083% against 100.7620% for perfect play.
The front of the Full Pay 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 34 100.6083% 0.1536 651 hands Letter · A4
Short card — bigger type, fewer lines 5 x 7 in, 4 x 6 in or 3.5 x 5 in 32 100.5470% 0.2150 465 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 15
Flush 9
Straight 5
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 Three deuces and nothing else 3
5 4 to a royal flush 4
6 Five of a kind 5
7 Straight flush 5
8 Four of a kind 4
9 One deuce and three of a kind 4
10 Two deuces and a pair 4
11 Two deuces and 2 to a royal flush 4
12 One deuce and 3 to a royal flush 4
13 Two deuces and 2 to a straight flush 6 ways 4
14 Two deuces and nothing else 2
15 Full house 5
16 One deuce and two pair 5
17 One deuce and 3 to a straight flush 4 ways 4
18 Flush 5
19 Straight 5
20 Three of a kind 3
21 One deuce and a pair 3
22 One deuce and 3 to a straight flush 3 ways, open 4
23 4 to a straight flush 4
24 3 to a royal flush 3
25 One deuce and 2 to a royal flush 3
26 One deuce and 2 to a straight flush 6 ways 3
27 One deuce and nothing else 1
28 One pair 2
29 4 to a flush 4
30 4 to a straight open 4
31 3 to a straight flush except open 3
32 4 to a straight inside 4
33 3 to a straight flush open 3
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.

Other paytables this card is right for

These 1 paytables play close enough to Full Pay that the same card serves them. The cost of using it on each is measured the same way as the card's own return.

PaytablePayoutsWith this cardPerfect playGap
20/10/8/4/3/2 800-200-20-10-8-4-3-2-2-1 91.2388% 91.4200% 0.1813

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 Full Pay 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
25/15/11/4/4/3 800-200-25-15-11-4-4-3-2-1 1.1101 25/15/11/4/4/3
20/12/10/4/4/3 800-200-20-12-10-4-4-3-2-1 1.0371 20/12/10/4/4/3
25/15/10/4/4/3 800-200-25-15-10-4-4-3-2-1 0.9982 25/15/11/4/4/3
Not So Ugly Ducks 800-200-25-16-10-4-4-3-2-1 0.9956 25/15/11/4/4/3
300/20/12/10/4/4/3 800-300-20-12-10-4-4-3-2-1 0.9652 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
20/11/9/4/4/3 800-200-20-11-9-4-4-3-2-1 0.9516 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
20/12/9/4/4/3 800-200-20-12-9-4-4-3-2-1 0.9403 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
25/15/6/4/4/3 800-200-25-15-6-4-4-3-2-1 0.9270 25/15/6/4/4/3
Illinois 800-200-25-15-9-4-4-3-2-1 0.9204 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
25/16/9/4/4/3 800-200-25-16-9-4-4-3-2-1 0.9198 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
20/15/9/4/4/3 800-200-20-15-9-4-4-3-2-1 0.9177 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
20/10/8/4/4/3 800-200-20-10-8-4-4-3-2-1 0.9017 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
25/15/8/4/4/3 800-200-25-15-8-4-4-3-2-1 0.8797 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
25/10/7/4/4/2 800-200-25-10-7-4-4-2-2-1 0.7049 25/12/8/4/4/2
25/12/7/4/4/2 800-200-25-12-7-4-4-2-2-1 0.6969 25/12/8/4/4/2
25/10/8/4/4/2 800-200-25-10-8-4-4-2-2-1 0.6729 25/12/8/4/4/2
25/12/9/4/4/2 800-200-25-12-9-4-4-2-2-1 0.6611 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
25/12/8/4/4/2 800-200-25-12-8-4-4-2-2-1 0.6610 25/12/8/4/4/2
Colorado 800-200-25-16-13-4-3-2-2-1 0.5747 Colorado
25/15/9/4/3/3 800-200-25-15-9-4-3-3-2-1 0.4717 25/15/9/4/3/3
20/10/8/4/3/3 800-200-20-10-8-4-3-3-2-1 0.4288 300/20/12/10/4/4/3
25/15/10/4/3/2 800-200-25-15-10-4-3-2-2-1 0.2219 20/12/9/5/3/2
20/12/9/5/3/2 800-200-20-12-9-5-3-2-2-1 0.2071 20/12/9/5/3/2

The short card

The same derivation with a line budget: 32 lines instead of 34, set large enough to read in bad light, at a cost of 0.2150 points instead of 0.1536. 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 Three deuces and nothing else 3
5 4 to a royal flush 4
6 Five of a kind 5
7 Straight flush 5
8 Four of a kind 4
9 One deuce and three of a kind 4
10 Two deuces and a pair 4
11 Two deuces and 2 to a royal flush 4
12 One deuce and 3 to a royal flush 4
13 Two deuces and 2 to a straight flush 6 ways 4
14 Two deuces and nothing else 2
15 Full house 5
16 One deuce and two pair 5
17 Flush 5
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 Straight 5
23 4 to a straight flush 4
24 3 to a royal flush 3
25 One deuce and 2 to a royal flush 3
26 One deuce and 2 to a straight flush 6 ways 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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