Double Bonus Poker at Springbok: rich quads, thin two pair

The machine plays with natural cards only. Five are dealt, you choose which to keep, one draw fills the gaps, and whatever stands after that draw is checked against the rows on screen. Jacks or better, as a pair, is the smallest hand that wins anything. Lobby reading · 9 Oct 2026 (opens the source)

Four of a kind is graded by rank and only by rank. Unlike its cousin Double Double Bonus Poker, this machine ignores the fifth card: four Aces with a 3 pay exactly what four Aces with a King pay. When a quad is dealt, the only decision is whether to collect it or gamble it.

Bets run from 1 to 5 coins at a coin value between R0.05 and R5.00. A gamble round called Double or Nothing follows a win: you choose a card against the dealer's, a higher card doubles the prize and a lower one forfeits it. Turning the round down leaves the win as the table paid it.

Holding choices change how much of each bet the house keeps over many hands; they do not tip the game your way. The chart quoted below is Wizard of Odds' simple Double Bonus strategy, worked out for the common table that differs from Springbok's in that one quad row. Its top lines carry over cleanly; its lower, finer lines are approximations here.

• Three Aces outrank a made full house. The chart's notes on difficult hands say to keep three Aces and throw the pair when you are dealt Aces full. Neither choice can end as four 5s through Kings, so the one row where Springbok's table differs plays no part in this decision.
• Two pair is still held. It sits above a single high pair on the chart even though it pays only 1, because the one-card draw can turn it into a full house worth 10.
• An open-ended four-card straight outranks a low pair. With straights paying 5, the chart keeps 9-8-7-6 ahead of a pair of 6s. Jacks or Better charts usually keep the low pair; this one does not.
• A high pair outranks a four-card flush, and that flush draw in turn outranks three cards to a royal flush.

Further down, the chart gets long: unsuited Ace-King-Queen-Jack, suited picture-card pairs and single high cards all have their places, and the full list is linked below. If you want holds fitted to Springbok's exact rows, the Wizard of Odds strategy maker accepts an edited pay table. Our strategy basics guide explains how to work through any ranked hold list.

With two pair cut to even money, more of this table's payout sits in quads, and quads are rare. That makes Double Bonus Poker a bumpier ride than Jacks or Better at the same stake: long runs of small or no wins are normal, and no hand is ever due. Choose a coin value your session budget can carry through those runs, not one that needs a quad to last the evening.

Because the machine pays in coins, switching the viewer's units from coins to rand is the quickest way to see what four Aces or a full house is worth at your coin value. Try It! mode on the lobby tile, where the table on this page was read, deals with practice money: a sensible place to rehearse the Aces-full and straight-draw holds before a real stake.

Deal it from a phone. On 9 October 2026 the desktop lobby put up a Flash-retirement notice for video poker and pointed players to the mobile version, the same client this table was read from. If you are carrying a bonus at the time, check which Springbok games count toward wagering before opening any video poker machine.