Jacks or Better mobile is a video poker game that suits the mobile platform down to a tee thanks to its simple design and its ease to play.
Like most mobile casino video poker games the graphics aren’t exactly stunning but they are effective enough to give a good user experience and thanks to the speed the game can be played, it’s perfect for when you are on the move and can only access games from your mobile.
Jacks or Better mobile follows the usual winning hand rules of poker with the only variant being that a single pair will only count if it is indeed a pair of Jacks or Better; therefore Queens, Kings and Aces are the only other pair you can land to get a payout. The winning hands then work their way up through the normal poker hands – two pair, three of a kind, straight, flush, full house, four of a kind, straight flush and royal flush.
The way this game works is that you first choose how many coins you’re going to play with – anywhere between one and five – and then choose the coin value; there are five different values – 0.25, 0.5, 1, 2 and 5. Therefore if you are playing the maximum coins and the maximum stake then each of your bets will be 25 credits.
You press the ‘deal’ button and five cards are shown to you and you have the chance to ‘hold’ certain cards before getting to swap new cards in for the ones you didn’t hold. If you have made a hand at this point then you are a winner.
The paytable works based on the poker hands – a Jacks or Better pair being the lowest payout and royal flush being the highest – and the number of coins that you staked. The payout increases the more coins that you bet. To give you an example, if you bet one coin and hit jacks or better, then it would payout at evens on your coin value. If you had bet five coins then Jacks or Better would payout five times you coin value. The maximum payout is if you bet five coins and hit a royal flush. This would return 4,000 times your coin value. If your coin value was five then you’d receive 20,000 credits. Nice.
There’s a great bonus type feature where if you win on any one hand, you get the chance to gamble that all away or double it up. The bonus game involves being shown one card and you having to choose another card that is of a higher value. You have four extra cards to choose from. If you are right, then they double your winnings. You can keep this going as many times as you like. Pretty amazing really.
So, overall you have a fun game that taps into the world of poker and has both a great payout system and a fantastic bonus game. A video poker game for your mobile well worth getting involved in.
