Loose Deuces at Springbok: a deuces wild table built around four 2s

The round is Springbok's standard draw: pick the coin value and the number of coins, take five cards, hold any of them and replace the rest once. With all four 2s wild, the machine reads each deuce as whatever card gives you the best hand, and it deals a single hand per round. Lobby reading · 9 Oct 2026 (opens the source)

What sets this machine apart is where the table puts its weight. Four deuces return 500 coins per coin, where Springbok's plain Deuces Wild returns 200, and the middle rows are smaller to pay for it. A straight flush returns 5, a full house 3, and a flush or a straight 2 each.

Winning hands can go into Double or Nothing, where your card must top the dealer's to double the amount. On a machine where most wins are small and the big one is rare, that gamble can quietly swallow a session's small wins, so set your rule for it before the first deal.

Move from one coin to five and every row simply multiplies by five, with one exception: the natural royal, which leaps from 300 to 4,000. A natural royal can only be made without deuces, so the leap only matters on deuce-free deals that hold royal cards. On those, it can flip the right hold.

Take a deal with the Queen, Jack, 10 and 8 of hearts and the 8 of diamonds. Scoring every possible draw against Springbok's rows gives a different answer at each coin count. With one coin in, keeping the four hearts for an inside straight flush draw comes out ahead. With five coins in, keeping only the Queen, Jack and 10 for the royal does.

The pair of 8s trails both options either way. The wider point is that a habit learned at one coin count can mislead you at the other, so choose the coin count first and the holds second. The guide to reading video poker pay tables covers the 5-coin royal in general.

The Wizard of Odds offers a Loose Deuces practice trainer, but we found no free written chart for the game, and the full-pay Deuces Wild chart was built for a table that pays four deuces far less. So the notes below come from counting every possible draw against Springbok's Loose Deuces rows. Unless a note says otherwise, the answer was the same with 1 coin and with 5. Each one trims the house edge on that hand and nothing more.

• Three deuces: keep only the deuces, even when the deal is already five of a kind or a wild royal. With four deuces paying 500 per coin, the chance at the last 2 is worth more than either made hand, narrowly so against the wild royal.
• Two deuces in a made straight flush or four of a kind: keep the straight flush whole, or the four cards that make the four of a kind, rather than falling back to the two deuces.
• No deuces, two pair: keep one pair and draw three. Two pair returns nothing here, and a single pair comes out slightly ahead of both.
• No deuces, four to a flush or a low pair: keep the pair, by a small margin.
• No deuces, three to a royal against a low pair: the three royal cards come out ahead even with one coin in, and by more with five.

The same three-wild-card deal is played the other way on Sevens Wild, where five of a kind is kept. The strategy basics guide explains the deuce-counting habit these notes build on.