Tens or Better Video Poker (Boss Media)

Review of Tens or Better (Boss Media)

In Tens or Better the standard Jacks or Better pay table has been augmented with a Pair of Tens. So you will also win if you have a Pair of Tens, which isn't the case in Jacks or Better obviously.

After reviewing Boss Media's pay table for Tens or Better, we were a bit turned off, because the payout on the Royal Flush isn't relatively higher when playing max coins. This means you are paid out 500 coins for a 1 coin Royal Flush and exactly 5 x 500 = 2,500 coins when betting max coins. So the general video poker rule of "always bet max coins" doesn't apply here.

The expected return for Boss Media's Tens or Better is almost 1 percent lower than you would expect from full pay Tens or Better. On the "upside" the lowered payout for the Royal Flush also implicates that the expected return is less "dependent" on hitting a Royal Flush (which you will hit on average every 43,000 hands or so), and thus this game's volatility is the lowest for any Video Poker variant we've found online.

In the table below we've listed the Tens or Better pay table offered by Boss Media casinos: