Highlights the mathematically optimal holds for each dealt hand. Helps reach theoretical RTP without exceeding it.
Video Poker
Jacks or Better — Deal 5 cards, hold your best, draw replacements. Pair of Jacks or higher wins.
Video Poker on Rookie
What is Video Poker?
Video Poker is a classic casino game based on five-card draw poker. Unlike table poker, you don't play against opponents or a dealer — you play against a fixed payout table. The better your final hand, the higher your payout. On Rookie, we offer Jacks or Better, the most popular variant, with a 99.54% RTP and fully provably fair dealing.
How to Play
- Place your bet — set your wager before the deal.
- Deal — five cards are dealt face-up from a shuffled 52-card deck.
- Hold cards — tap any cards you want to keep. Unheld cards will be replaced.
- Draw — unheld cards are replaced with new cards from the deck.
- Get paid — your final five-card hand is evaluated and you're paid according to the payout table.
Payout Table (Jacks or Better)
- Royal Flush — A, K, Q, J, 10 of the same suit → 250×
- Straight Flush — five consecutive cards of the same suit → 50×
- Four of a Kind — four cards of the same rank → 25×
- Full House — three of a kind plus a pair → 9×
- Flush — five cards of the same suit → 6×
- Straight — five consecutive cards → 4×
- Three of a Kind — three cards of the same rank → 3×
- Two Pair — two different pairs → 2×
- Jacks or Better — a pair of Jacks, Queens, Kings, or Aces → 1× (break even)
Provably Fair
Every deck in Rookie's Video Poker is shuffled using our HMAC-SHA256 provably fair system. A 52-card deck is shuffled via Fisher-Yates using floats derived from your server seed, client seed, and nonce. The first 5 cards are your deal; cards 6-10 are the draw replacements. After rotating your seeds, you can verify every card was dealt exactly as the cryptographic proof dictates.