Double Double Bonus Poker at Springbok: when the fifth card pays

The basics match the rest of the Jacks-based room: natural cards, five dealt, one draw, and a pair of Jacks or better as the lowest win. Nothing is wild. Lobby reading · 9 Oct 2026 (opens the source)

What sets this machine apart is the kicker, the fifth card left over when the other four make a four of a kind. Most games ignore it. Here it decides between two rows in two places on the table:

• Four Aces plus a 2, 3 or 4 pay 350 at 1 coin. Four Aces with a 5 through King pay 160.
• Four 2s, 3s or 4s plus an Ace, 2, 3 or 4 pay 160. With any other fifth card they pay 80.
• Four 5s through Kings pay 45 whatever the fifth card is.

Coin value runs from R0.05 to R5.00, with 1 to 5 coins per hand and one hand per deal. A paying hand can be staked again in Double or Nothing, where your chosen card has to top the dealer's to double the win, and a lower card ends the round with nothing.

A careful hold reduces the edge the house keeps on each hand; over a session it still keeps one. The notes below follow Wizard of Odds' published Double Double Bonus chart, calculated for the more common table. Springbok pays less on two of its quad rows, so the chart points the right way without being tuned to this exact screen.

• Aces up: keep the Aces only. The chart ranks a pair of Aces above two pair, so from Aces and 8s you let the 8s go and draw three cards. Two pair pays just 1 here, while three fresh cards give the Aces a shot at the quad rows. Any other two pair is kept whole.
• Dealt a quad with no kicker? Hold the four and draw. Wizard of Odds' line for any other four of a kind holds the four cards only. Drawing the fifth card cannot lose the quad, and the right card (a 2, 3 or 4 behind four Aces, an Ace through 4 behind four 2s, 3s or 4s) lifts it to the kicker row.
• Three Aces rank above a made full house on the chart.
• Three Aces are listed without a kicker. The chart has no line for keeping a 2, 3 or 4 beside three Aces. Holding one leaves a single draw instead of two, which halves your chance of the fourth Ace in return for the bigger award if it arrives.
• A four-card flush outranks a low pair. Pairs of 2s through 10s sit below four to a flush and below the three-card royal draws.

For Springbok's exact rows, enter the table into the Wizard of Odds strategy maker; for how ranked hold lists work in general, start with strategy basics.

The kicker awards are the reason people pick this machine, and they are among the rarest hands on the table. Budget as if they will not come in any given session. A coin value that leaves room for several hundred hands at 5 coins suits this game better than a higher one that depends on a quad to keep going.

If it helps to put numbers on paper first, a gambling budget planner walks through setting a limit you can stick to. The machine plays in the mobile lobby: on 9 October 2026 the desktop lobby carried a notice that Flash is retired and that video poker continues on mobile. Try It! mode on the lobby tile lets you practise the kicker decisions with fun money first.

When play stops feeling like entertainment, the responsible gambling page has the free help lines.