Video Poker Online

This is one of the biggest gaming companies in the world. They provide games to both online and offline casinos in every market throughout the world. They also offer products in all major areas of gambling, not just casino games—these include sports betting, poker, and bingo.

Amaya Gaming offers the following video poker games:

They do offer full pay, or 9/6, Jacks or Better, which has the best payback percentage of any of their games, at 99.54%. Most of their variations are pretty standard.

Amigotechs is a smaller company that provides casino games to sports books. They have limited functionality, and the payback percentages on their video poker games are all over the place.

Here’s a list of the games they make available:

2 Ways Royal is the best of their offerings. The payback percentage is 99.8%. Their version of Joker Poker is awful, with a payback percentage of only 87% or so. We’ve never seen another casino offer such a low payout on a video poker game—ever.

They offer the following online video poker games:

You’ll notice they don’t have a wide variety of games, but the ones they do have are well-executed. Their versions of Bonus Poker and Jackpot Poker both offer progressive jackpots, which means that either of those games could be positive expectation bets—if the progressive jackpot is high enough.

The payback percentage on the other 2 games is between 97% and 98%.

Arrows Edge is a smaller software provider in the online gambling industry. They offer the following games:

Their best video poker game is Double Bonus with its payback percentage of 98.78%. Their worst game is Double Joker Poker, which has a ridiculously low payback percentage of 92.1%.

Betsoft is one of the larger and more important Internet providers on this list. They offer the following variants:

Many of these games are available in single game versions or mult-game versions.

Split Way Royal offers the best odds. That game has a 99.8% payout percentage.

Watch out for the Pyramid Poker version of Bonus Poker, though. The house edge on that one is below 84%.

Bodog and Bovada are listed here because they use their own proprietary software for their instant play games. The software that you download is powered by multiple providers, but for the purposes of this listing, we’re only looking at their no-download product.

Here are the games available:

For a no download casino that’s not using someone’s software, this is a surprisingly robust number of listings. This doesn’t surprise us; Bodog and Bovada have both been class acts for years.

Their best game actually offers the player a slight advantage over the casino with a 100.05% payback percentage. That game is Joker Poker, but only the single line version. The multi line versions have a different pay table.

Their worst game is the multi-line version of Jacks or Better, which has a payback percentage of 97.3%.

Cryptologic offers the following video poker variations:

The best game in their stable is Aces & Faces with its 99.26% payback percentage. But their progressive jackpot games can offer a better return than that if the jackpot gets high enough.

Cryptologic does not allow real money players from the United States to participate at any of their casino licensees.

Dragonfish is an arm of 888 Casino that creates and markets games to non-affiliated online casinos. They offer the following games:

Most of their games offer returns between 96% and 98%, making them a mediocre choice as far as online casinos go. But their best bet is Aces & Faces with its 99.26% payback percentage.

Gamesys is a new-ish online gambling software company that doesn’t require exclusivity from its partner casinos. This was innovative at the time their company launched 10 years ago, but it’s more common now. In fact, many casinos, especially those associated with sports book operations, mix games from various software providers.

Gamesys only offers 7 video poker games:

Gamesys offers an unusual option where a player can play a game with a close to 0% house edge, but in exchange for that, they agree to give the casino 10% of their winnings as a commission. The “zero house edge” versions of Tens or Better, Deuces Wild, Double Joker Poker, and Aces & Faces do indeed offer close to a 0% house edge.

If you’re not interested in that option, the best game to play is Deuces and Joker Wild with its 99.07% payback percentage.

Habanero Systems offers a nice variety of video poker variations through its partner casinos. These games include:

Their best game is Jacks or Better, which is a full pay version with a payback percentage of 99.54%. Their worst game is Deuces Wild, with a payback percentage of 96.77%.

Most online casino software companies change the pay tables when you play multi-line versions of their games, but not Habanero Systems. You get the same pay table regardless of whether you’re playing the 1 line, the 50 line, or the 100 line games.

Microgaming is the most famous provider of online casino software, and they offer excellent video poker games. Unfortunately, they have a blanket ban on real money players from the United States.

Here’s a list of the games available at their casinos:

Supajax is a progressive jackpot version of Jacks or Better.

The best return available, aside from Supajax when the jackpot climbs into the stratosphere, is All Aces, with a payback percentage of 99.92%.

Microgaming has an excellent reputation. If you’re living in a country where Microgaming accepts real money players, you should definitely try their software and their games.

Net Entertainment is one of the oldest names in the business, and they also offer some of the friendliest games in the business for low rollers. They have video poker games available at a minimum denomination of 10 cents per hand, which is some of the cheapest video poker you’ll find anywhere. They specialize in a no download, browser-based platform, so you don’t need a software client in order to try their games.

Here’s what they have available in the video poker space:

Their best game is Jacks or Better with its 99.54% payback percentage.

Novomatic only offers 3 video poker games:

The best return is available at their Jacks or Better game, but it’s still only 98.45%. All their other games offer returns of between 97% and 98%. These are far from the best video poker games online.

Playtech, along with Microgaming, is one of the two giants in the online casino software industry. And like Microgaming, Playtech doesn’t allow real money players from the United States. They do offer some interesting video poker choices to their customers in Europe, though:

2 Ways Royals offers the best return of 99.8%, but most of their video poker offerings have good pay tables, including their full pay Jacks or Better game.

This is the company behind the games at Casino-on-Net and 777 Casino, among others. They have the following video poker games available:

You’ll find the best odds with their Aces and Faces game. It has a payout percentage of 99.26%.

Realtime Gaming is often referred to as RTG by industry experts. They offer some of the most affordable (for the casinos) software available. They’re also friendly to United States players.

The following games are available from RTG:

As you can see, they offer a wide variety of games. RTG is unusual for a casino software company—they allow the individual casinos to choose the pay tables for their games. These fall within certain parameters, but Jacks or Better at one Realtime Gaming casino might have an entirely different pay table than Jacks or Better at another RTG casino. You’ll have to look at the pay tables before you play.

To the best of our knowledge, the best game you’ll find at any RTG casino is Aces & Eights with its 99.78% return.

Rival has been in business for a decade now, but their software still feels new. They offer games in both a download and a no-download version. Here’s the list:

The best return can be found on their version of Jacks or Better: 99.54%.

Saucify seems to be the main competitor for Realtime Gaming, as they specialize in providing software to online casinos serving the United States market. Here are the games available:

Their full pay Jacks or Better game offers the best return, 99.54%. You might want to avoid their Deuces and Joker Wild game, with its relatively low 97.97% return.

Soft Magic Dice has the most limited variety of video poker we’ve ever seen. They basically offer one game—Jacks or Better. But at least it’s available as a full pay game with a 99.54% payback percentage.

Before they got into the casino game business, SoftSwiss specialized in creating online auction software. Now they specialize in Bitcoin casinos. Here’s their video poker game list:

They only offer 2 video poker games: Jacks or Better and Joker Poker. The latter offers the better return (98.6%), which is nothing to write home about.

Top Game only offers 4 video poker games:

The best of these is Jacks or Better with its 99.54% payback percentage.

Vista Gaming offers the following variants:

Their Jacks or Better game offers the highest return (99.54%).

WagerWorks is the online branch of IGT (International Game Technology), which is the largest manufacturer of slot machines and video poker in the world. They don’t accept real money players from the United States, but they do offer the following variations:

Their Jacks or Better game is a full pay game with a 99.54% return. It’s the best game available at WagerWorks casinos.

Like Realtime Gaming, WGS Technology seems to specialize in offering real money video poker games to United States players. Here are the games available at their casinos:

As with many of the other software companies on this list, their full pay Jacks or Better game offers the best return at 99.54%