Joker Poker – Power Poker Slot Review
A blue spotlight burns at the centre of a dark frame, fading to near-black at the edges, with faint card suits drifting through the glow. Most of what Joker Poker – Power Poker offers sits outside the spin entirely: the game hands you five cards and lets you decide, and it’s a better game for handing over that much control. You’ll rarely find a machine in this lobby that rewards thinking this directly.
Flip Five Gaming have built a machine that runs at 98.60% RTP at five coins per hand, with low volatility, a 1,000x ceiling and bets from 0.25 to 25.00 a game. Each hand uses five cards, and you can play 1, 4, 10 or 50 hands at once. That’s a thinner house edge than nearly any reel game you’ll find beside it.
Playing a Hand
Every game starts with a decision hand of five face-up cards. You choose which to hold, and everything else is discarded and redrawn from the deck. In the single-hand version, held cards stay put and new cards fill the gaps.
The game is dealt from a deck of 53 cards, shuffled before each game. The 53rd card is the Joker, which is wild and substitutes for every hand except a Natural Royal Flush, which it can never complete.
Wins are decided by poker hand ranking, and one win is paid per hand. If you hold several winning hands in a multi-hand game, you’re paid the highest-ranked one. Nothing else stacks.
44.14% of games produce a paying hand. Most of those are small. Two Pair and Kings or Better sit at the bottom of the paytable, so the frequent wins are the modest ones.
Betting itself is handled through a handful of controls. The Coins buttons step your coin count up or down, Bet +1 adds one coin at a time and wraps back to one after five, and Bet Max puts the full five coins on at your current coin size. Deal starts the game; Draw replaces everything except your held cards.
Wins are displayed in credits, and the credit value depends on the coin size you’ve chosen. Multiply the coins won by that coin size and you have your payout. It’s worth keeping an eye on both numbers, because the same hand is worth different amounts at different settings.
The Paytable
Payouts are multiples of your total bet at the full five coins per hand, from the top of the ladder down:
- Natural Royal Flush – 1,000x
- Five of a Kind – 200x
- Joker Royal Flush – 100x
- Straight Flush – 50x
- Four of a Kind (2-4) – 17x
- Full House – 7x
- Flush – 5x
- Straight – 3x
- Three of a Kind – 2x
- Two Pair, or Kings or Better – 1x
The coin count matters more than it looks. Five coins per hand returns 98.60%; one to four coins per hand returns 97.96%. That gap is the price of under-betting, and it’s the reason the full coin bet is the only one that makes sense here.
Kings or Better is the qualifying hand, meaning a pair of Kings or Aces, so low pairs pay nothing. Five of a Kind needs the Joker, since it’s four of a denomination plus a wild card. A Joker Royal Flush, with one or more cards replaced by the wild, sits between the two at 100x, so the natural version pays ten times what the assisted one does.
One Hand, Four, Ten or Fifty
The Power Poker part is the hand count. You can switch between 1, 4, 10 or 50 hands whenever you like, though never mid-game. In the multi-hand versions, the cards you hold in the decision hand are copied into the same position across every play hand, and each hand then draws its own replacements from its own full deck.
Your total bet is the number of coins, multiplied by the coin size, multiplied by the number of hands. Up to five coins per hand, up to 25.00 a game. The selectable hand button on the table shows the current count and switches it.
More hands means more chances to land the same hold across different draws, and it also means the Joker shows its value. A held Joker replicates into every hand, and a hand like King, Ace, Joker and two suited cards suddenly has real outs in all of them.
Doubling
Any game win can be gambled, provided it’s below the casino’s win activation limit. Doubling has to be switched on first, under Settings, and it’s off by default.
The mechanics are simple. You pick a card. Beat the dealer’s card and your win doubles; tie and nothing changes; lose and the double is gone. After a win or a tie you can collect or go again, and you can keep going until you lose, or until the casino’s doubling limit stops you.
One safety net exists: if you’re disconnected or close the game before picking a card, the game won’t pick one for you. Return to the table and you’re straight back into the doubling decision, win intact.
It’s the only way to build a small payout into a large one, and it’s a genuine gamble rather than a bonus round. Each step is a fresh risk on the full amount, so the ladder cuts both ways.
Quick Deal
Quick Deal, also toggled in Settings, simply displays results faster. It doesn’t touch the outcome. It’s a convenience for anyone grinding hands at volume, nothing more, and it may not be available in every build of the game.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.6/10
Sitting under that spotlight is the slowest, most deliberate game in the building: five cards, one decision, and all the time you want to make it. That decision is the reason to choose it. No reel game gives you this much say in your own outcome.
The maths is the strength, and it isn’t close. 98.60% at five coins is an edge so thin it belongs in a different conversation to the slots beside it. The weakness is the ceiling. One hand in the whole paytable reaches four figures, the wild card can’t help you get there, and everything else pays out in single and double multiples that add up slowly.
This is a game for card players who enjoy being right more often than being paid hugely. If you want free spins, bonus rounds and the swing of a big multiplier, the light from this stage won’t reach you.
Joker Poker – Power Poker FAQs
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What is the RTP of Joker Poker – Power Poker?
The RTP is 98.60% when you play five coins per hand. Betting one to four coins per hand returns 97.96% instead, so the full coin bet is the better version of the game. -
Is Joker Poker – Power Poker high volatility?
No, it’s a low volatility game. Wins are frequent but mostly small, with 44.14% of games producing a paying hand. -
What is the hit frequency of Joker Poker – Power Poker?
The hit frequency is 44.14%, meaning just under half of games end with a paying hand. Most of those are low-tier hands like Two Pair. -
How many hands can you play in Joker Poker – Power Poker?
You can play 1, 4, 10 or 50 hands at once, with each hand dealt five cards. You can change the hand count at any time, but not during an active hand. -
What is the minimum and maximum bet on Joker Poker – Power Poker?
Bets run from 0.25 to 25.00 per game. Your stake is coins played times coin size times hands, with up to five coins per hand. -
When is Joker Poker – Power Poker released?
Joker Poker – Power Poker’s release date is 19 August 2024. -
Who makes Joker Poker – Power Poker?
It’s made by Flip Five Gaming and follows standard video poker rules with a wild Joker. -
What is the maximum win on Joker Poker – Power Poker?
The maximum win is 1,000x your bet, paid by a Natural Royal Flush. It’s the one hand the wild Joker can’t help complete.
