Video Poker Three of a Kind Improving
Written May 21, 2008 by Jack Jones
There is one hand that personally vexes me when playing video poker and that is when I get three of a kind. It seems that when I need to draw two cards, I rarely get a full house or even a four of a kind. The odds didn’t seem like they would be that good of improving since there are not a lot of cards out there to help improve the hand, so I decided to do some research and find out the true odds of improvement.
I found out that while improving shouldn’t be expected, drawing to a full house or a four-of-a-kind should happen more often than once in a blue moon. In this case, when you discard the two cards of little value, for instance, you keep three aces and throw away a nine of diamonds and a five of clubs, odds are you will improve your hand to either to a full house or four aces 10.4% of the time.