Bonus Deuces Wild – Power Poker Slot Review
Very few casino games let skill decide whether you win or lose, and Bonus Deuces Wild – Power Poker is one of them. Underneath the cobalt glow, the drifting card-suit shapes and the soft spotlight of Flip Five Gaming‘s presentation, this is proper video poker: your hold decisions move your actual return, and the maths rewards the players who know which cards to keep.
The numbers back that up. It runs at 99.15% RTP when you bet five coins per hand, or 98.65% at one to four coins, with low volatility, a hit rate of 43.98% and a ceiling of 1,000x your stake. Five cards, up to fifty hands, and every decision is yours.
The Deal and the Paytable
Each game starts with a decision hand of five face-up cards. You hold what you want, then draw. On the draw, the decision hand greys out and the cards you didn’t hold turn face-down, while the held cards carry across to your play hands and fresh cards fill the gaps from a full 52-card deck, shuffled before each game.
Every play hand draws from its own complete deck, so the held cards are the only thing your hands share. That’s what makes multi-hand play interesting: one decision fans out into fifty independent outcomes. In the single-hand version the held cards are simply marked and replacements are dealt.
You can switch between one, four, ten or fifty hands whenever you like, just not during an active hand. The selectable hand button displays your current count and switches you between them, so moving up to fifty hands for a bigger session is a two-tap job.
Betting is coins times coin size times hands, up to five coins per hand, and stakes run from 0.25 to 25.00. The Bet Max button takes you straight to the ceiling at your current coin size, while Bet +1 steps your coin count up one at a time and wraps back to one after five. Wins are shown in credits, which are simply the coins you’ve won multiplied by your coin size.
One win is paid per hand, and if you land more than one winning combination, the highest-ranked hand is the one that pays. The Deuces are wild, standing in for any card in any hand except a Natural Royal Flush, which has to come off the dealt cards alone. Because the wilds reshape the whole ladder, the paytable is worth reading in full. Values below are multiples of your total bet.
- Natural Royal Flush: 500x
- Four Deuces with an Ace: 200x
- Four of a Kind (Deuces): 100x
- Five of a Kind (Aces): 40x
- Five of a Kind (3s, 4s, 5s): 20x
- Wild Royal Flush: 12.5x
- Five of a Kind (6s through Kings): 20x is not this tier’s pay – it pays 9x
- Straight Flush: 4x
- Four of a Kind / Full House: 2x
- Flush: 1.5x
- Straight / Three of a Kind: 0.5x
The five-of-a-kind tiers are where the wilds do the heavy lifting. Aces pay 40x, the small triples from threes to fives pay 20x, and every denomination from sixes up to kings pays 9x. So drawing four Deuces is only half the story: which fifth card lands alongside them decides whether you’re looking at 100x, 200x or a shot at the top of the board.
Notice the shape of that ladder. The Deuce-based hands sit above everything except the Natural Royal, so a deck with four wilds in play produces five-of-a-kind wins that ordinary poker never sees. Straights and trips only return half your stake, which tells you where the strategy lives: chasing the wild-heavy hands is what pays.
The rankings follow standard poker order underneath the wild additions, from Straight Flush down through Full House, Flush, Straight and Three of a Kind. A Wild Royal pays 12.5x, a fraction of its natural cousin’s 500x, so a single dealt card standing in for a wild costs you most of that hand’s value. It’s the most expensive substitution on the board.
Doubling and Quick Deal
Any winning hand can be gambled through the Double feature, as long as it isn’t above the casino’s win activation limit. You pick a card, and if it beats the dealer’s card your win doubles. A tie leaves the win as it was, and a lower card loses the lot.
After a win or a tie you can play again or collect. The run only ends when you pick a lower card or the doubling limit is reached, so a hot streak can compound several doubles into one. You have to switch the feature on first: Menu, Settings, then Double. Toggle the same option to turn it off again.
It’s a pure 50/50 card pick, so doubling doesn’t improve your expected return, it just widens the swing of an otherwise low-variance game. The activation limit means the feature belongs to small and mid-sized payouts rather than the top of the ladder.
One reassurance: if you’re cut off mid-double, the game won’t pick a card for you. You’re returned to the same decision when you reopen it, and anything needing a choice can always be finished later. The same protection covers an ordinary hand in progress, so an interrupted session never costs you a result.
Quick Deal
Quick Deal simply reveals your results faster. It has no effect whatsoever on the outcome, and it’s toggled on or off in the same Settings menu. At fifty hands a game, shaving the reveal time is a genuine quality-of-life touch rather than decoration.
Playing more hands multiplies your total cost but keeps the decision-making identical: you hold once in the decision hand, and every play hand draws to the same held cards. A Statistics button tracks your play, and a Win History button shows recent results, both handy when you’re running fifty hands and want to see where you stand.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.7/10
Sitting at this table feels like the one place in the casino where you’re the one working. There’s no spin to wait through, just five cards, a hold decision and your own judgement, and that judgement is worth real money. Anyone who’d rather think than watch has found their reason to pull up a seat under the blue glow.
At five coins per hand, the 99.15% return is as close to a fair fight as the industry sells, and the wild Deuces keep the interesting hands coming without ever feeling like a handout. That’s the strength. The weakness is the ceiling: 1,000x at best, with low volatility underneath, so the payout ceiling is modest even by poker standards and nothing here will rearrange a bankroll.
Poker players who enjoy grinding out correct decisions over a long session will get exactly what they came for, and the Double gamble gives them an occasional flutter on top. It isn’t built for anyone chasing a headline win, and the blue spotlight never pretends otherwise. The deuces are wild, but the appeal here is quiet and disciplined rather than wild at all.
Bonus Deuces Wild – Power Poker FAQs
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What is the RTP of Bonus Deuces Wild – Power Poker?
The RTP is 99.15% when you bet five coins per hand, and 98.65% at one to four coins per hand. Five-coin play is clearly the better value. -
Is Bonus Deuces Wild – Power Poker high volatility?
No, it’s a low volatility game with a hit rate of 43.98%, so wins land frequently but the payouts are modest relative to slot games. -
How does the Double feature work?
After any win, you can pick a card against the dealer’s. Beat it and your win doubles, tie and nothing changes, and you can keep doubling after a win or tie until you pick a lower card or the limit is reached. It needs to be enabled in Settings. -
What do the Deuces substitute for?
Each Deuce is wild and substitutes for any card in any hand, with a single exception: it can’t complete a Natural Royal Flush, which must be made from dealt cards alone. -
What is the maximum win on Bonus Deuces Wild – Power Poker?
The maximum win is 1,000x your stake. -
What is the minimum and maximum bet on Bonus Deuces Wild – Power Poker?
Stakes run from 0.25 to 25.00, set by combining coins and coin size across your chosen hands. -
Who makes Bonus Deuces Wild – Power Poker?
It’s made by Flip Five Gaming, and it plays as one, four, ten or fifty simultaneous hands of video poker. -
When is Bonus Deuces Wild – Power Poker released?
Bonus Deuces Wild – Power Poker’s release date is 19 August 2024.
