How to Check the Full Pay Deuces Wild Paytable

Full Pay Deuces Wild is an exact payout schedule, not every game titled Deuces Wild. Wizard of Odds reports an optimal RTP (return to player) of 100.7620%, or 100.76% rounded to two decimal places, for that schedule under its model assumptions, including the five-credit natural royal bonus. This is a theoretical result, not a guarantee. A matching game name alone confirms neither the paytable nor the return: compare every payout in the game's help or paytable with the source's optimal model.

Exact paytable: one-credit payouts and five-credit totals

The natural royal pays 250 credits on a one-credit bet but 4,000 credits in total on a five-credit bet in this schedule. All other listed payouts scale linearly with the wager.

This common payout-display convention is corroborated by ReadyBetGo's explanation of Deuces Wild variants and is consistent with the Wizard of Odds max-credit model. ReadyBetGo is a secondary specialist source; the selected game's own rules and paytable remain authoritative.

A natural royal and a wild royal are separate payout categories. A natural royal uses no wild deuce. A wild royal uses one or more wild deuces to substitute for other cards under the game's rules. Four deuces also has its own payout and must not be confused with four of a kind in general.

For bets of one through four credits, the natural royal's total payouts are 250/500/750/1,000. At five credits, the total jumps to 4,000, not 1,250. That bonus is essential to the published return calculation.

A machine credit, sometimes called a video-poker coin, is a wager unit—not cash. These payouts cannot be converted into money without knowing the credit denomination. The five-credit condition describes the model; it is not advice to increase your stake.

Why Wizard of Odds shows 800 when the one-credit payout is 250

800 is a normalized payoff factor for the max-credit return calculation, not the literal payout on a one-credit bet. The “Payoff” column in the Wizard of Odds results table lists 800/200/25/15/9/5/3/2/2/1.

The source expresses payouts per unit wagered for its five-credit model. For the natural royal, this means:

4,000 ÷ 5 = 800.

To obtain a five-credit total from a model payoff factor, multiply it by five. For example, four deuces pays 200 × 5 = 1,000, while a wild royal pays 25 × 5 = 125. These examples assume the exact schedule above and a five-credit wager; they are exact credit calculations, with no rounding or cash conversion.

For most rows, the normalized factor equals the one-credit payout because those payouts scale linearly. The natural royal is the exception: 800 includes the five-credit bonus, whereas the displayed one-credit payout is 250.

Keep these three quantities separate: the visible one-credit payout, the total payout at five credits and the normalized payoff factor used in the model. Substituting the third for the first produces an incorrect paytable.

How 100.76% is calculated—and what the arithmetic checks

100.76% is the rounded optimal-model result for this exact paytable, not a universal property of the game name. Wizard of Odds publishes 100.7620%. Optimal strategy means that the model uses hold/discard decisions that maximize theoretical return for this particular schedule.

The weighted-return calculation accounts for both payouts and the frequencies of final hand categories. Each category's outcome count is multiplied by its normalized payoff factor, and those products are added together. Non-paying outcomes are included in the total outcome count but contribute zero to the payout sum.

An arithmetic check using the source's underlying figures gives:

20,085,114,000,432 ÷ 19,933,230,517,200 × 100 ≈ 100.7619612%.

The numerator is the sum of weighted payouts; the denominator is the total outcome count in the source calculation. The result rounds to 100.7620% at four decimal places and 100.76% at two.

This is an independently checked calculation using outcome counts supplied by Wizard of Odds, not an independent enumeration of all card outcomes. Checking the division does not, by itself, establish that the outcome enumeration, modeled strategy or implementation of a particular game is correct.

The result applies only to the matching paytable, the modeled optimal strategy and the 4,000-credit natural royal payout on a five-credit bet. It cannot be carried over to a smaller wager with a proportionally paid natural royal.

The separate 100.71% figure comes from the Wizard of Odds simple-strategy analysis. It is not another rounding of the optimal 100.7620% result.

What the model implies for 100 credits of turnover

For 100 credits in total wagers, the model implies about 100.7619612 credits in gross theoretical payouts. That is a modeled excess of about 0.7619612 credits over the amount wagered—not a calculation of session profit.

This illustration applies the calculated ratio to an assumed 100 credits of turnover, using the matching paytable, modeled optimal strategy and five-credit natural royal condition. The displayed figures are approximate; no credit denomination or cash value is assumed.

RTP (return to player) is the theoretical long-run payout-to-wager ratio. It is neither the frequency of winning hands, the probability of finishing ahead nor a forecast for an individual session. A modeled excess over wagers is not a promise of net profit.

Full Pay Deuces Wild vs NSUD: which payouts differ?

Not So Ugly Ducks (NSUD) is a different paytable with its own optimal-strategy model. Some of its payouts are higher, but its four-of-a-kind payout is lower. One attractive row is not enough to assess the whole schedule.

The comparison below shows six key one-credit payouts. For these six rows, five-credit totals scale linearly.

The payouts and returns come from the separate Wizard of Odds models for Full Pay Deuces Wild and Not So Ugly Ducks. 99.7278% uses NSUD's own optimal strategy, not Full Pay Deuces Wild hold/discard decisions.

Comparison of six one-credit payouts for Full Pay Deuces Wild and NSUD, with optimal RTP of 100.7620% and 99.7278%

Original visualization of Wizard of Odds data: six one-credit payouts and two separate optimal-model returns, not a game screenshot.

These figures help distinguish the paytables. They say nothing about either variant's current availability at operators.

How to check your game and recalculate the model

Check the game's own paytable first, then check whether the analyzer's model matches it. A matching title or a few matching payouts is not enough.

1. Open the game's help or paytable. Record every hand category and payout, the credit denomination and the wager condition. Note whether the display shows one-credit payouts or total payouts for the selected number of credits.
2. Check the natural royal separately. Record its payouts at one, two, three, four and five credits, including the condition for receiving 4,000. Do not combine this row with the wild royal.
3. Compare every row with the full table above. Even one different payout means the published Full Pay Deuces Wild return cannot automatically be applied.
4. Open the Wizard of Odds Video Poker Analyzer. This is an external English-language page. Use “Select category” to choose a suitable video poker category, if available, then click “Continue”.
5. Adjust the paytable in the provided fields. Enter the game's actual payouts in the units required by the selected model. Do not enter 250 in place of the normalized natural royal factor of 800 when modeling a 4,000-credit payout on a five-credit wager. If the required category or exact conditions cannot be represented, the calculation will not check your paytable accurately.
6. Click “Analyze”. Compare the result with the published return only when all payouts, model rules and max-credit conditions match.

This sequence follows the Analyzer's documented instructions. Editing a paytable does not replace checking the units and rules used by the selected model.

The Analyzer returns theoretical probabilities and returns under optimal strategy. It does not inspect an operator's live software, prove that a game implements its advertised paytable or forecast your session.

Where to find detailed hold/discard guidance

This article identifies the paytable and the conditions behind its return; individual hand decisions need separate strategy guidance. Even a matching paytable does not mean that any strategy will achieve the source's optimal result.

For detailed hold/discard guidance, see the Deuces Wild video poker strategy guide. Apply that guidance with the exact paytable of your selected game in mind.