# Video poker guides
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Collection updated: 2026-11-02
Read our video poker guides to rules, variants and paytables. Understand coin conditions, multi-hand costs and dated UK game listings before comparing formats.
Video poker commonly uses a deal, selected holds and a draw, followed by evaluation against the chosen paytable. This collection helps you separate that process from dealer-versus-player casino poker and from a directory of places carrying a game.
The useful comparison is the complete variant and its paytable, including stake units and any coin qualification. Use a rules guide for hand evaluation and the availability guide for dated GB listings; those pages answer different questions.
## Choose your video-poker question
- [Read Jacks or Better](https://howtocasino.uk/guides/what-is-jacks-or-better-video-poker/index.md): Understand the qualifying pair, paytable shorthand and the effect of coin columns.
- [Understand wild twos](https://howtocasino.uk/guides/how-to-play-deuces-wild-video-poker/index.md): Read Deuces Wild categories before applying a hold chart intended for another variant.
- [Find a dated GB listing](https://howtocasino.uk/guides/where-can-i-play-video-poker-online-in-the-uk/index.md): Compare exact public titles and linked return conditions without treating a family name as a full configuration.
## Understand deal, hold and draw
The introductory guide follows one deal and explains paytable units and multiple-hand costs. The variant guides then cover their different qualifying combinations.
- [How do you play video poker?](https://howtocasino.uk/guides/how-to-play-video-poker/index.md): Learn how to play video poker: deal, hold, draw and read a paytable. Compare game variants and count the cost of multiple hands, with pound examples.
## Where video poker is listed
Compare dated GB titles, linked return conditions and total hand costs.
- [Where can I play video poker online in the UK?](https://howtocasino.uk/guides/where-can-i-play-video-poker-online-in-the-uk/index.md): Find dated online video poker listings in the UK at Sky Vegas, BetVictor and Betfair. Compare named games, coin-qualified RTP, full hand costs and domains.
## Named draw-poker variants
Read wild cards, qualifying categories and the appropriate paytable.
- [What is Jacks or Better video poker?](https://howtocasino.uk/guides/what-is-jacks-or-better-video-poker/index.md): Learn Jacks or Better video poker rules: qualifying pairs, the 9/6 paytable and coin columns, with stake, return and net-result examples.
- [How do you play Deuces Wild video poker?](https://howtocasino.uk/guides/how-to-play-deuces-wild-video-poker/index.md): Learn how to play Deuces Wild video poker: wild twos, hold and draw, natural and wild royals, special paying hands, payout units and Hold suggestions.
## More questions
Explore another part of the topic.
- [How do Bonus Poker and Double Double Bonus Poker differ?](https://howtocasino.uk/guides/bonus-poker-and-double-double-bonus-poker/index.md): Compare Bonus Poker and Double Double Bonus Poker: published Evolution paytables, kicker rules, two-pair returns and complete examples in pounds.
## What should you compare between video-poker games?
- Check the qualifying hands and complete payout schedule. A shared Jacks or Better label does not establish identical awards.
- Establish whether displayed figures are coins, cash amounts or stake multipliers. Read the selected coin column before converting an award into pounds.
- Count the stake per hand and the number of hands. A prize on one hand can still be smaller than the total cost of the deal.
## Connected topics
- [More casino games](https://howtocasino.uk/guides/other-table-games/index.md): Use separate guides for dealer-comparison games such as Three Card Poker and Caribbean Stud.
- [Slots & mechanics](https://howtocasino.uk/guides/slots/index.md): Read the RTP explanation when a theoretical return needs its assumptions and time scale made clear.