On a quarter machine, that’s $250, enough to make a player on a modest budget feel as if they’ve had a nice day’s win. There’s an added attraction in a secondary jackpot of 1,000 coins for four deuces.
The primary jackpot remains 4,000 coins for a five-coin bet when you draw a royal flush with no wild cards. Slot players of the time were used to three-reel stepper slots with paybacks on about nine percent to 14 percent of spins, so that video poker hit frequency was an attraction in itself. In its original, full-pay, 100.8-percent return version - a rare treat in the few casinos that still have it - Deuces Wild pays off on 45.3 percent of hands. And second, players love the chance at a modest secondary jackpot that comes up fairly often, and will accept less in smaller pays to get it.ĭeuces Wild came to the fore early as an enduring blend of those factors. For starters, players will flock to video games that give them frequent paybacks and a good shot to win.
When video poker rocketed to popularity in the 1980s a couple of things became apparent that still influence games today. Editorial Staff | Posted on Febru| Exploring a family of Deuces Wild games By John Grochowski
