About Aces and 8's Video Poker
This version of Aces and 8’s Video Poker has been designed by Real Time Game for your entertainment pleasure when playing online. Many different software designers offer games of the same name in this genre, but each design obviously has a tweak that makes it their own. RTG is a well-respected and trusted name in the industry, and their Aces and 8’s offering is simple to understand.
Special Features
What is really nice about this online video poker game is the fact that pay-tables are not separate from the playing screen. It clearly indicates that a Royal Flush is the highest paying hand. Play five coins and land one of these rare hands to win a top prize of 4000 coins. Most video poker games rule that the player must have at least jacks or better to play.
Hand rankings follow traditional poker hand rankings with, as we said, a Royal Flush paying top dollar. Next is - Straight Flush, Four of a Kind Aces high, Four Seven’s, and other Four of a Kind, then Full House, Flush, Straight, Three of a Kind, Two Pair, and Jacks or Better. Five coins is the maximum bet, and it is often wise to play this amount – for example this reviewer landed a Straight Flush – A -2-3-4-5 of Spades and won two-hundred and fifty credits. Had we only wagered one coin the pay-out would have only been fifty credits. Take some time and practice by playing in demo mode, this is always good advice to get the hang of a new game.
Bonus Features
There is a bonus type game in Ace’s and 8’s which offers the player the opportunity to double their winning or win nothing. For example with a Jacks or Better win, across a Maximum Bet, the prize is fifteen credits. However, an additional screen appears where the pay tables are situated, and tells us what we have won.
The game then also invites players to double their winning to thirty credits, that’s when we have to choose “yes” or “no”. Choose “yes” and double or nothing pick our card against the dealers’ card – we have to choose a higher card from four face-down cards, or risk losing everything. In this case the dealer’s card was a Queen, so, we knew it would not be easy to win. Unfortunately we chose a Jack, and this lost us all our winnings. Every win finds this “Double or Nothing” offer coming up, take care or risk losing everything you have won.