🃏 5-Card Draw Poker

How to play

Five-card draw against a paytable rather than against other players. You start with a play-money balance of $100 and every hand costs a fixed $10. Deal gives you five cards from a freshly shuffled pack; you decide which to keep, then draw replacements. The final five cards are evaluated once and paid from the table below, so there is no betting round and no opponent.

• Deal button — takes $10 and deals five cards. It is disabled during a hand and refuses if your balance is below $10.
• Click a card — marks it HELD, and clicking again releases it. Holding is only possible between the deal and the draw.
• Draw button — replaces every card not held and settles the hand.

Scoring

Payouts are multiples of the $10 stake. A Royal Flush pays 250 times, or $2500; a Straight Flush 50; Four of a Kind 25; a Full House 9; a Flush 6; a Straight 4; Three of a Kind 3; Two Pair 2; and a pair of Jacks or better pays 1, returning your stake. Anything weaker pays nothing. Aces are high except in the 5-4-3-2-A straight, which is recognised.

Tips

• A low pair pays nothing, so hold it only as a route to trips or a full house. Jacks or better already returns the stake.
• Four cards to a flush or an open straight beat breaking them for a small pair.
• Never hold a kicker with three of a kind — discarding both spares gives two chances to improve.
• With four cards to a Royal Flush, throw the fifth even if it breaks a made flush.

Frequently asked questions