All American VP Pays You More If You Get A Straight
If you want to celebrate America while you're playing video poker, there is a game for you. A casino review of your choices should lead you to All American VP (vp is short for video poker) This game has all the images that befit an American holiday.
The Statue of Liberty stands proudly to one side of the board. There are also Bald Eagles, the national symbol of freedom in the United States. The American flag-the Stars and Stripes-stands out in the red white and blue colours made famous in song by George M. Cohan.
All American VP is played in a Jacks or Better format, which normally pays back one coin for each one bet when you have the minimum hand. That is also the case here, but usually, the next lowest hand, two pair, pays double that amount. In this game, however, it also only pays back one coin.
Most of the other payoffs in All American VP are also clearly lower than you would expect. Four-of-a-kind, which usually pays back 25 or at least 20 coins, only pays 14. Even the biggest hand, a Royal Flush, only pays 250 coins for one coin bet (the return is much better, however, if you played the maximum amount, five coins. You'll get back 4,000 coins.)
To compensate for these lower returns, there are two favourable changes in All American VP. A regular straight, which in most Jacks of Better games only pays four coins, pays double that with eight coins. The biggest bonus comes for a Straight Flush. In most video poker machines, a Straight Flush does not pay close to a Royal Flush, but that's not the case in All American Video Poker. Instead of the standard 50 coins back for each one bet, you'll get 200 coins, only 50 less than the Royal Flush pays.
You'll have to decide if you want to play a version of video poker that maximizes the payoffs for both Straights and Straight Flushes while minimizing the returns for most other winning hands. If you want to play All American VP, don't forget that when you're choosing a casino, review their pay table. Some online sites may have set up their machines with different payoffs for this game.
