The leading online casino software provider Cryptologic offers a series of video poker variants at its online casinos. These are known as Bonus Video Poker games and are not available at online casinos powered by other software providers. The Bonus Video Poker games have one major difference from the regular variants and this makes them more exciting and interesting.
The Bonus Video poker games start in the same way as the regular variants. Five cards are dealt face up from a single deck. The player selects the cards that he wants to hold. The remaining cards are to be replaced by fresh ones. The method of replacement in the Bonus Video Poker variants is different. The rejected cards are placed again in the deck and can be dealt again to the player. In normal video poker variants the rejected cards are removed from the game and cannot be dealt again. That the rejected cards can be dealt again is disadvantageous to the player. Therefore Cryptologic Bonus Video Poker has an ingenious way of compensating for this disadvantage. A bonus is awarded to the player for each rejected card that is dealt again.
The exact game play of the Cryptologic Bonus Video Poker game is as follows. In the top right hand corner of the screen there are two sets of cells. The cards rejected by the player are displayed in the bottom of the two sets so that a record is available for comparison later. The replacement cards are then dealt so as to complete the five card hand. If any of the replacement cards are the same as the rejected cards then a bonus amount is shown in the corresponding top cell. In the hand, a golden star is shown on the replacement card that is the same as a rejected one. These special bonuses are paid out to the players whether or not they receive a payout in the main game. If the player receives both a payout in the main game and bonuses then the amounts are added and the total is transferred to the player’s account. If the player does not receive a payout but receives bonuses then the total bonus amount is transferred to the player’s account.
The video poker variants offered in the Bonus Video Poker format at Cryptologic online casinos are Jacks or Better, All American, Deuces Wild, Double Bonus, Joker Poker, Tens or Better and Super Jackpot. The bonus amounts per card are not the same for each variant of Bonus Video Poker. The bonus for each repeated card is specified in the rules as a percentage of the bet per hand and is rounded to the nearest cent. Jacks or Better Bonus Video Poker has the lowest bonus rate of 15.30%. All American Bonus Video Poker has the highest bonus rate of 21.10%. Bonus Video Poker variants are offered in multi hand formats just as the regular variants. At the start of the game the player can select the number of hands he wants to wager on. The options on offer are 1, 3, 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100. The Bonus Video Poker games can be played at all Cryptologic online casinos such as InterCasino.
