Hand	1 coin	2 coins	3 coins	4 coins	5 coins
Royal flush	250	500	750	1000	4000
Straight flush	50	100	150	200	250
Four of a kind	25	50	75	100	125
Full house	9	18	27	36	45
Flush	6	12	18	24	30
Straight	4	8	12	16	20
Three of a kind	3	6	9	12	15
Two pair	2	4	6	8	10
Pair of jacks or better	1	2	3	4	5

You'll notice that the payout for a full house is 9 for 1 on the 1 coin bet, and the payout for the flush is 6 for 1 on the one coin bet. This is why this is called a 9/6 Jacks or Better game.

To get a pay table for 8/5 Jacks or Better, all the other payouts remain the same as in the chart above except for the full house and the flush, which pay 8 for 1 and 5 for 1 respectively. 7/5 Jacks or Better and 6/5 Jacks or Better follow the same logic.

You'll also notice that the payback amounts on all bets are at the same ratio except for the royal flush, which pays out four times what it should pay when you've bet five coins. There are two lessons to take away from that:

• You should always make the max bet.

• Since the payout on the royal flush is so high, it makes up a lot of the game's payback percentage. So you'll be losing most of the time, until you hit your royal flushes, which happen approximately once every 40,000 hands or so.

You can find full pay Jacks or Better games in these Vegas casinos.

Comparison of Different Jacks or Better Payout Tables

I've included a table below that lists the payback percentage for all four versions of Jacks or Better along with their estimated payout percentage. The payout percentage can help you calculate your expected loss per hour. The table makes it pretty clear why you should almost always try to find a 9/6 Jacks or Better game to play.