Bonus Poker Deluxe Strategy — Free 9/6 Play & Pay Tables
- Full-Pay Return
- 99.64% (9/6)
- All Four of a Kind
- 80x — flat
- Two Pair
- 1x (the trade-off)
- Hands
- 1 to 100
What Is Bonus Poker Deluxe?
Bonus Poker Deluxe is the version of Bonus Poker that stops caring which four of a kind you make. Every quad — four deuces, four sevens, four aces — pays the same flat 80 for 1. In exchange, two pair is cut from 2 to 1, which is where the extra money for those quads comes from.
That single swap changes the character of the game completely. Standard Bonus Poker pays you on a sliding scale (80 for aces, 40 for 2s-4s, 25 for everything else) and keeps two pair at 2. Bonus Poker Deluxe flattens the top and pays for it at the bottom — you hit fewer small wins and more big ones.
Bonus Poker Deluxe Pay Table — 9/6 Full Pay
This table is the 9/6 full-pay version, returning 99.64% with correct play. The "9/6" refers to the full house and flush payouts, which are the lines casinos shave first.
| Hand | 1 Coin | 5 Coins |
|---|---|---|
| Royal Flush | 250 | 4,000 |
| Straight Flush | 50 | 250 |
| Four of a Kind (any) | 80 | 400 |
| Full House | 9 | 45 |
| Flush | 6 | 30 |
| Straight | 4 | 20 |
| Three of a Kind | 3 | 15 |
| Two Pair | 1 | 5 |
| Jacks or Better | 1 | 5 |
Always bet five coins. The royal flush pays 4,000 on a max bet instead of a proportional 1,250 — that jump is worth roughly 1.5% of total return on its own, and skipping it is the most expensive mistake in any video poker game.
Short-Pay Versions — What You Lose
Use the pay-table switcher above the table to compare. Each step down costs real return:
- 9/6 — 99.64% — full pay. Play this one.
- 8/5 — 97.40% — over two full points worse.
- 7/5 — 96.25%
- 6/5 — 95.36% — more than four points below full pay.
The strategy barely changes between these tables, but the money does. A machine's pay table is the only thing you can check before you sit down, and it matters more than anything you do afterwards.
Bonus Poker Deluxe Strategy — How It Differs
Because two pair only returns your bet, Bonus Poker Deluxe pushes you away from holding two pair and toward hands that can become quads or a flush. Three rules cover most of the difference from Jacks or Better:
1. Break two pair — keep the higher pair
In Jacks or Better you always keep two pair. Here two pair pays 1, the same as a single high pair, so there is no premium to protect. Hold the better pair and draw three cards, which gives you a live shot at the flat 80x quad.
2. Low pairs gain value
Every pair is a quad draw worth 80. Hold a low pair over three to a straight, and over four to an inside straight.
3. Four to a flush still beats a low pair
The flush pays 6 on the full-pay table, which is enough to keep four to a flush ahead of a low pair. On short-pay tables where the flush drops to 5, this one gets close — another reason to seek out 9/6.
You do not have to memorise any of it here. Leave the AI Trainer on and it flags the correct hold on every hand as you play, so the strategy is learned by repetition rather than from a chart.
Common Mistakes
- Holding two pair out of habit. Carried over from Jacks or Better, this is the single most costly error in this game.
- Betting fewer than five coins. Forfeits the 4,000-coin royal bonus.
- Chasing an inside straight. Almost never correct — a low pair is worth more.
- Assuming quad rank matters. It does in Bonus Poker and Double Double Bonus. It does not here — never break a made hand hoping for a specific quad.
How It Compares
| Game | Full-Pay Return | Four of a Kind | Two Pair |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bonus Poker Deluxe | 99.64% | 80 (flat) | 1 |
| Bonus Poker | 99.17% | 25 / 40 / 80 | 2 |
| Jacks or Better | 99.54% | 25 | 2 |
| Double Double Bonus | 98.98% | 50–400 | 1 |
Bonus Poker Deluxe has the highest full-pay return of the four, and the simplest quad rule of any bonus game — a good reason it rewards long sessions. If you prefer steadier, smaller wins, Jacks or Better keeps two pair at 2 and swings far less.