I've read numerous times that you should always play maximum coins on a video poker machine. So far, I've stuck to that strategy, but I wondered what everyone else out there does?

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Not playing max coins dramatically reduces the payback percentage.

I always play maximum coins. You wanna win big, you gotta spend a little coin. And like my man Lewis said, the payback percentage goes to sh*t if you start gettin all cheap.

Always go maximum coins!

I looked this up. Not playing max coins on a video poker machine will usually give the house an additional edge of about 1.5%.

On a 9/6 Jacks or Better video poker game, when you're playing with perfect strategy, that means the payback percentage reduces from about 99.5% to about 98%. This is quadrupling the house edge, or the amount of money that it costs you to play the game.

So yeah, the advice about always playing maximum coins on a video poker machine is exactly right. Always play max coins on video poker.

For almost all multiple-pay and multiple-play machines, the maximum coin line tends to yield a better percentage payback. Note on the paytable the proportional difference in the size of your payoff. Example: One coin inserted pays 500 coins; two coins: 1000 coins; three coins: 4000 returned. You clean up when that third coin is played.
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There are, however, a few machines that do return 500 for one coin inserted, 1,000 for two coins, and 1,500 for three coins. If you happen to come across this sort of proportional paytable, you wouldn’t need to play the maximum amount of coins to get full value from this machine.
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Jacks or Better video poker with maximum coin play has a house edge of 0.5%. Excluding the royal flush, the casino’s advantage would be approximately 2.5%. Here’s a barnyard math way of viewing it. If, for instance, you were to play 600 hands per hour on a $1 Jacks or Better 9/6 machine, you can expect to lose about $75 per hour, on average, for each hour you play without hitting that phantom royal flush.
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