Basics Of Microgaming Reel Play Poker

August 10, 2016

Reel Play Poker is a different kind of video slot game developed by Microgaming, which is one of the more innovative online casino software providers. It has a strong element of multi-hand video poker game play integrated into it. The winning combinations are not a string of like symbols as in the usual video slots. They are poker hand rankings from the Jacks or Better video poker payout table. Reel Play Poker is live at all Microgaming online casinos such as Platinum Play, All Slots and Jackpot City.

Reel Play Poker is played in a 5x3 reels set with 20 paylines. As is the strategy for video slots, you play with all paylines enabled. You can wager up to 20 coins per payline and select a coin size from 0.01 to 0.25. You make the choices depending on the size of your bankroll. The game does not have the regular symbols of video slots games but uses actual playing cards (not playing card icons that are used for low paying symbols in video slots).

When you activate the game, five cards from a single deck are dealt in a demonstration area below the reels. Over there you select the cards that you want to hold using the usual Jacks or Better optimum strategy. Winning combinations are automatically marked as held. The reels that correspond to the held cards are filled with those cards as in multi-hand video poker games. These reels are fixed and only the remaining reels spin. When the reels stop, the five-card poker hands across all 20 paylines are compared with the Jacks or better payout table. You will notice that in Reel Play Poker 20 poker hands are formed with 15 cards. In multi-hand video poker you would need 100 cards for 20 hands. This is because in this innovative Microgaming game, each card is a part of several paylines.

There is one very important difference from the regular video slots where winning payline combinations have to start from the first reel and appear consecutively. In the jacks or better winning combination the two jacks can fall anywhere on the payline and not necessarily on consecutive reels. The lowest payout is for a pair of jacks that pay 1 coin per coin wagered on a payline. The highest payout is 800 coins per coin wagered for a royal flush. The payout table adjusts for the number of coins wagered and the coin denomination and displays the actual payouts in credits.

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