Double Joker Poker is the kind of IGT machines video poker casino game that can pay out plenty – provided you have the right strategy in mind. If you want to construct winning poker hands with minimum and maximum payouts, at odds of up to 800:1, check out the Juicy Stakes Casino Double Joker Poker guide for a few helpful tips.
What is Double Joker Poker?
Double Joker Poker is a popular variant of video poker. It uses a standard 52-card deck juiced up with not one, but two jokers – and in this game, two jokers are wild. As a result, the probability of creating paying poker hands at Juicy Stakes Casino is that much higher with great bonus payout potential.
To compensate for the heighted chance of hitting a winner, the game only starts paying for two pair, rather than the traditional pair of jacks or better. The trade-off is two extra winning Double Joker combinations that teeter near the top of the pay table – a wild royal card flush and five of a kind Joker Royal flush.
What Can You Win Playing Double Joker Poker at Stakes Casino?
As with all video poker games, Double Joker Poker is available in a number of different payout configurations. The best in biggest win terms of the edge or advantage to the house is the full Joker Royal Flush pay game. When you play full pay Double Joker Poker, the edge is just 0.03%.
That is obviously a major boon for players but actually finding full pay Double Joker Poker is another matter altogether. There are few, if any, online casinos that have the financial wherewithal to operate according to such small margins… and Juicy Stakes Casino isn’t one of them.
What we do offer in terms of winnings is only slightly modified compared to the full Joker Royal pay table. Rather than paying out at odds of 9:1 for four of a kind, we offer 8:1 odds. The key prize is of course the 4,000 x jackpot generated by a royal flush on a maximum five-coin bet. Why is it so special? It is disproportionately large compared to all the other payouts and the only reason why betting max is an important part of a winning strategy.
Double Joker Poker Game Pay Table
Here is the Double Joker Poker pay table as it appears at Juicy Stakes Casino:
| Number of Coins | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Royal Flush | 250 | 500 | 750 | 1000 | 4000 |
| Wild Royal | 100 | 200 | 300 | 400 | 500 |
| Five of a Kind | 50 | 100 | 150 | 200 | 250 |
| Straight Flush | 25 | 50 | 75 | 100 | 150 |
| Four of a Kind | 8 | 16 | 24 | 32 | 40 |
| Full House | 5 | 10 | 15 | 20 | 25 |
| Flush | 4 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 20 |
| Straight | 3 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 15 |
| Three of a Kind | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 |
| Two Pair | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
Double Joker Poker Edge and Payout Percentage
How does that one small adjustment to the Double Joker Poker pay table influence the actual edge? Surprisingly, quite a lot. In fact, the game that you can play at Juicy Stakes Casino has a theoretical house edge of 1.9%.
As a result, the average payout percentage is 98.10%. Although that is significantly lower than the 99.97% quoted for the full pay game, it is still impressive when simply making comparisons to many other video games and online casino games.
Best Double Joker Poker Strategy Charts
What is important to bear in mind is it is possible to lower the edge. All you have to do is play the game according to the mathematically perfect counterintuitive strategy. In Double Joker Poker, there are three different strategies based on one of three winning hands possibilities:
- You are not dealt a joker in the initial five-card hand
- You are dealt one joker in the initial hand
- You are dealt two jokers in the initial hand
Based on that information and the cards in your hand, here are the three strategies featuring the correct decisions you should make around drawing the cards:
Strategy 1 - Initial Hand with No Jokers
| No paying premier hands | Discard all five cards |
| Two cards to a straight flush | Draw 3 cards |
| Suited A-K; A-Q; A-J; A-10 | Draw 3 cards |
| 2 consecutive cards to a straight flush | Draw 3 cards |
| Suited K_Q; K-J; K-10 | Draw 3 cards |
| 4 cards to a straight | Draw 1 card |
| Suited Q-J; Q-10; J-10 | Draw 3 cards |
| 3 cards to straight flush | Draw 2 cards |
| 4 cards to open straight | Draw 1 card |
| 3 cards to open straight flush | Draw 2 cards |
| One Pair | Draw 3 cards |
| 4 cards to a flush | Draw 1 card |
| 3 cards to a royal flush | Draw 2 cards |
| Two pair | Draw 1 card |
| 4 cards to a straight flush | Draw 1 card |
| Three of a kind | Draw 2 cards |
| Flush and straight | Keep the hand as is |
| Four of a kind and full house | Keep the hand as is |
| 4 cards to a royal flush | Draw 1 card |
| Royal flush and straight flush | Keep the hand as is |
Strategy 2 – Initial Hand with 1 Joker
| 1 joker | Draw 4 cards |
| Joker plus 5-6-7-8-9 or J | Draw 3 cards |
| 4 cards to a straight | Draw 1 card |
| J-10 | Draw 3 cards |
| 3 cards to a straight flush | Draw 2 cards |
| 4 cards to a flush | Draw 1 card |
| 4 cards to an open straight | Draw 1 card |
| 3 cards to an open straight flush | Draw 2 cards |
| 3 cards to a wild royal flush winning hand | Draw 2 cards |
| 4 cards to a straight flush | Draw 1 card |
| Three of a kind | Draw 2 cards |
| Straight | Keep the hand as is |
| Flush | Keep the hand as is |
| 4 cards to an open straight flush | Draw 1 card |
| Full house | Keep the hand as is |
| 4 cards to a wild royal flush | Draw 1 card |
| Four of a kind | Draw 1 card |
| Wild royal flush | Keep the hand as is |
| Five of a kind | Keep the hand as is |
| Straight flush | Keep the hand as is |
Strategy 3 – Initial Hand with 2 Jokers
| 2 jokers | Draw 3 cards |
| 2 jokers plus 5-9 | Draw 2 cards |
| 2 jokers plus 6-7-8 | Draw 2 cards |
| Flush | Keep the hand as is |
| 3 cards to a wild royal flush | Draw 2 cards |
| 4 cards to straight flush | Draw 1 card |
| 2 jokers plus A-K; A-Q; A-J; A-10 | Draw 1 card |
| 2 jokers plus K-Q; K-J; K-10 | Draw one card |
| Four of a kind poker game | Keep the premium hands |
| 2 jokers plus Q-J; Q-10; J-10 | Draw 1 card |
| Wild royal flush, straight flush and straight | Keeping joker hand as is |
