Aces & Faces – Power Poker Slot Review
A blue glow fades to near-black navy at the corners of the screen, suit-shaped pips drifting in a loose ring around the title, as if the table were lit from behind. That’s all the scenery Aces & Faces – Power Poker offers, and it’s honest about why: nothing here is watching a reel spin. It’s pure video poker from Flip Five Gaming – five cards face-up, a hold button, and a shuffled 52-card deck behind every hand, with your decisions shaping each outcome.
You can play one, four, ten or fifty hands at once. The return sits at 99.26% on five coins per hand, volatility is low, and the top prize is a Royal Flush worth 800x the bet, with stakes from 0.25 to 25.00. Not much glitz. Plenty of arithmetic.
The Deal
Each game starts with a decision hand of five cards dealt face-up. You tap the cards you want to keep, hit draw, and the decision hand greys out while everything you didn’t hold turns face-down. In the single-hand game, held cards are marked and the gaps are filled from the deck.
Multi-hand play works from the same decision hand. Whatever you hold is copied into the same position across all of your play hands, and each hand then draws its replacement cards from its own full 52-card deck. Ten hands means ten independent shuffles hanging on one set of holds.
There are no wild cards anywhere in the game. Every hand is straight poker, ranked the traditional way, so the skill is in knowing which cards to keep and which to let go. A Quick Deal option can be switched on in Settings to speed up the draw, and it has no effect on the results.
A handful of on-screen tools sit alongside the cards. The Statistics button pulls up your gameplay statistics, the Win History button shows your recent results, and the selectable hand button displays how many hands are in play and lets you switch to another count. Nothing here changes a result. It’s information, and in a game built on decisions, that’s not decoration.
Hands, Coins and Payouts
You can play one, four, ten or fifty hands at a time, and the hand count can be changed at any point except mid-hand. Your total bet is the number of coins, multiplied by the coin size, multiplied by the number of hands, with up to five coins per hand.
The coin count matters more than it looks. The return climbs with every coin you add: 98.54% at one or two coins per hand, 98.93% at three, 99.13% at four and 99.26% at the full five. Betting max coins is the only way to get the full return.
Setting that stake is straightforward. The Bet box opens your coin and coin-size options, Bet +1 steps the coin count up one at a time and resets to one after five, and Bet Max places the biggest bet allowed at your current coin size. Wins are displayed in credits, and converting them is simple: coins won multiplied by coin size. Five coins won at a 0.50 coin size is 2.50 credits.
One win is paid per hand, and where a hand qualifies for more than one line on the table, the highest-ranked hand is the one that pays. All values below are multiples of the total bet:
- Royal Flush: 800x
- Four Aces: 80x
- Straight Flush: 50x
- Four Jacks, Queens or Kings: 40x
- Four Twos through Tens: 25x
- Full House: 8x
- Flush: 5x
- Straight: 4x
- Three of a Kind: 3x
- Two Pair: 2x
- Jacks or Better: 1x
The “Aces and Faces” name comes from the paytable’s shape. Four of a kind is split into three tiers, with a premium on aces and on the painted faces, so quad jacks through kings pays 40x while quad twos through tens pays 25x. Aces sit alone at the top of that ladder at 80x.
Below the quads, the rankings are the familiar ladder. A Royal Flush is an Ace, King, Queen, Jack and Ten of the same suit, and a Straight Flush is any five suited cards in sequence. A Full House is three of one denomination with two of another, a Flush is five of one suit, and a Straight is five in sequence regardless of suit.
The entry level is Jacks or Better: a single pair of Jacks, Queen, King or Ace returns your stake, while Two Pair doubles it. That floor matters in a multi-hand game, because the low rungs are what keep fifty simultaneous hands from turning into fifty losses.
The Double Feature
Any win can be gambled through the Double feature, which has to be enabled in Settings before it’s active. Win a hand and you can put the payout on the table against the dealer’s card: pick a higher card and your win doubles, a tie leaves it unchanged, and a lower card takes it away.
Beat the dealer or tie and you can go again, doubling repeatedly until you either pick a losing card or hit the casino’s doubling limit. There’s also a win activation limit above which doubling isn’t offered, so the biggest payouts can’t be put at risk.
One detail worth knowing: if you’re disconnected before choosing a card, the game won’t pick for you. Return to the table and the doubling decision is waiting exactly where you left it.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.6/10
Playing this is quiet work. Fifty hands hang on one set of holds, and the whole game is that pause before you tap the cards you’re keeping. The reason to sit down here at all is the feeling of earning a result rather than waiting for one, and that blue-lit table gives you nothing to watch but your own choices.
Nothing else on the floor pays back like this. A 99.26% return at five coins is about as close to even as a casino game gets, and it’s the only game in the building where knowing what you’re doing actually closes the gap. The tiered quad pays make the holds interesting, too: chasing four aces feels different from settling for two pair.
What it can’t do is thrill. An 800x Royal is a statistical event, not a jackpot, and the low volatility keeps every session on the flat. This one suits the sort of grinder who likes making forty decisions an hour; the multiplier chaser will find the table cold and the ceiling low. For the right person, though, that steady blue glow is exactly the point.
Aces & Faces – Power Poker FAQs
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What is the RTP of Aces & Faces – Power Poker?
The RTP is 99.26% when betting five coins per hand. Fewer coins reduce the return: 98.54% at one or two coins, 98.93% at three and 99.13% at four. -
Is Aces & Faces – Power Poker high volatility?
No. It’s a low volatility game, with wins spread across frequent smaller hand rankings like Two Pair and Jacks or Better rather than clustered into rare big payouts. -
What is the hit frequency of Aces & Faces – Power Poker?
The hit frequency is 45.53%, so roughly one hand in two ends with a payout. -
What is the maximum win on Aces & Faces – Power Poker?
The top prize is a Royal Flush, paying 800x your bet. -
What is the minimum and maximum bet on Aces & Faces – Power Poker?
Bets run from 0.25 to 25.00. Your stake is set by the number of coins, the coin size and the number of hands you’re playing, with up to five coins per hand. -
How many hands can you play in Aces & Faces – Power Poker?
You can play one, four, ten or fifty hands. You can change the number of hands at any time, but not during an active hand, and each hand draws from its own full 52-card deck. -
Does Aces & Faces – Power Poker have wild cards?
No. The game has no wild cards. Every hand is standard poker from a single 52-card deck, shuffled before each game. -
How does the Double feature work in Aces & Faces – Power Poker?
After any win, you can pick a card against the dealer’s. Higher doubles your win, a tie leaves it unchanged, and lower loses it. You can keep doubling until you lose a pick or reach the casino’s doubling limit. The feature must be switched on in Settings.
