{"id":124678,"date":"2023-02-03T13:34:30","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T21:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/?p=124678"},"modified":"2023-08-29T14:54:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T22:54:23","slug":"low-variance-or-high-variance-video-poker-which-is-your-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blog\/low-variance-or-high-variance-video-poker-which-is-your-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Low Variance or High Variance Video Poker \u2013 Which is Your Style?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This post is syndicated by the Las Vegas Advisor for the 888 casino group. Anthony Curtis comments on the 888 article introduced and linked to on this page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>A.C. says: You\u2019ve probably heard the term &#8220;variance&#8221; in discussions and analyses of gambling games. This article helps you better understand what it means. Variance is an assessment of risk. In video poker, the risk of suffering a big loss is greater when variance is high. Correspondingly, high-variance schedules enhance the chances of getting a big win. Many players gravitate toward the higher-variance games because of that big-win factor, but those games often have lower overall return percentages. For example, a typical bar selection might include higher-variance 7\/5 Double Double Bonus returning 96.71% and lower-variance 6\/5 Bonus Poker returning 96.87%. It\u2019s not a big discrepancy, but Bonus Poker is still the better game, yet it tends to get less play.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Low Variance or High Variance Video Poker \u2013 Which is Your Style?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.888casino.com\/blog\/video-poker-variance-style\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">This article was written by Jerry Stich in association with 888Casino.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As most&nbsp;video poker players&nbsp;know, not all video poker is alike. There are different games, different pay tables for each game, games with few jackpot-sized winners and those with many jackpot-sized winning hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each of these variations in the game affect that specific game\u2019s variance \u2013 a measure of the size of swings, both up and down, in the&nbsp;player&#8217;s bankroll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This article explores the differences between high variance and low variance games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.888casino.com\/blog\/video-poker-variance-style\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click to continue reading \u2026<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is syndicated by the Las Vegas Advisor for the 888 casino group. Anthony Curtis comments on the 888 article introduced and linked to on this page. A.C. says: You\u2019ve probably heard the term &#8220;variance&#8221; in discussions and analyses of gambling games. This article helps you better understand what it means. Variance is an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86532,"featured_media":124679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[557],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86532"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}