Deuces Wild at Springbok: four wild 2s and a table built around them

The draw works as on every machine in the lobby: pick a coin value from R0.05 to R5.00 and up to 5 coins, deal five, hold what helps, draw once, and get paid on the final hand. The difference is that a 2 of any suit stands in for whichever card makes your hand best. Lobby reading · 9 Oct 2026 (opens the source)

With four wild cards in the deck, made hands come along far more easily than in Jacks or Better, and the pay table is set up to match. A pair pays nothing and neither does two pair; the first paying hand is three of a kind, at 1 coin per coin. In exchange, the top of the table holds rows a natural-card game cannot have: four deuces, a royal flush made with deuces, and five of a kind.

The natural royal flush, with no deuce in it, stays at the top, and only that row grows by more than five times when the fifth coin goes in. After any win the Double or Nothing round is on offer: pick a card, and it must be higher than the dealer's for the win to double.

Holding well lowers the share of each stake the machine keeps; it does not make Deuces Wild pay out over time. The published chart nearest to Springbok's table is the Wizard of Odds "Not So Ugly Ducks" strategy, which sorts every decision by the number of deuces dealt. Each point below was also checked against Springbok's own rows by counting every possible draw, at 1 coin and at 5 coins.

Start by counting your deuces

• Four deuces: keep them. The award is already settled.
• Three deuces: keep a made wild royal or five of a kind; anything else, keep the three deuces alone and draw two.
• Two deuces: keep a made four of a kind or better (drawing one card to a four of a kind), or four to a royal. Two suited cards that sit next to each other (4 and 5 or higher) or one rank apart (5 and 7 or higher), such as 7 and 8 or 7 and 9, also make a four-card straight flush draw worth keeping. Lower than that, a 3 and 4 or a 4 and 6 for instance, or with the suited cards further apart, go back to the two deuces alone.
• One deuce: a deuce with three suited cards in a tight run, such as 7, 8 and 9 or 6, 8 and 9, is worth more than a deuce with a pair, even though the pair is already a paying three of a kind. Spread the run wider (5, 7 and 9) and the three of a kind wins. With nothing else to go on, keep the deuce alone.
• No deuces: made straights and better, four to a royal and four to a straight flush come first, then the two changes below.

Where Springbok's table changes full-pay advice

• Two pair, no deuces: keep both pairs. The Wizard of Odds full-pay chart keeps a single pair, because a full house pays little there. With a full house at 4 per coin, holding both pairs comes out ahead on Springbok's table.
• Four to a flush beats a single pair. With a flush at 3, the four-card flush draw is worth more than a lone pair, the reverse of the full-pay order.
• Straight flush or royal draw? It depends on the coins in play. At 5 coins, with the natural royal on 4,000, break the straight flush and draw one card at the royal. At 1 coin the royal pays 250 and keeping the straight flush is the better hold.
• Never throw a deuce away. Neither published chart cited here ever discards one, and no hold checked on Springbok's table did either.

The video poker strategy basics guide covers how the families differ before you get to individual charts.