Aces & Faces Video Poker (Microgaming)
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Review of Aces & Faces (Microgaming)
Jacks or Better is one of the oldest and most popular games of Video Poker. The expected return on full pay or 9/6 Jacks or Better is 99.54% making this a very attractive game to play.
Aces & Faces is a variant of Jacks or Better that pays out higher than standard for a Four of Kind consisting of Aces or Faces, that is Four Aces or Four Faces (Jacks, Queens or Kings).
Microgaming offers Aces & Faces in a one hand, a four hand and ten hand version (power poker). The ten hand version has been added in February 2004, and it's the first ten hand power poker released by Microgaming so far.
All versions use the same pay table. In the following table a comparison is made between Microgaming's Aces & Faces and full pay Jacks or Better:
| Hands | Microgaming | Full Pay |
| Royal Flush | 800 | 800 |
| Four Aces | 80 | 25 |
| Straight Flush | 50 | 50 |
| Four Jacks, Queens, Kings | 40 | 25 |
| Four 2-10 | 25 | 25 |
| Full House | 8 | 9 |
| Flush | 5 | 6 |
| Straight | 4 | 4 |
| Three of a Kind | 3 | 3 |
| Two Pair | 2 | 2 |
| Jacks or Better | 1 | 1 |
| Average return* | 99.2555% | 99.5439% |
| Variance* | 20.95179 | 19.51468 |
The differences between Microgaming's Aces & Faces and full pay Jacks or Better are:
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A Four of a Kind that's made up of Aces or Faces is rewarded higher. Four Aces pay 80 coins and Four Faces pay 40 coins, whereas a regular Four of a Kind pays the standard 25 coins. |
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A Full House and a Flush are paid out according to short pay 8/5 Jacks or Better. |
As always higher payouts in the upper part of the pay table are compensated by lower payouts in the lower part of the pay table, in order to keep the expected return below 100%. However, the expected return is only about 1/4 percent lower than full pay Jacks or Better, so this is a game worth playing.
Casinos where you can play Aces & Faces (Microgaming)
Casino | Rating | #Games | Current Bonus | |
| Captain Cooks |  | 91 | $200 Match bonus | Fact Sheet |
| Platinum Play | | 95 | Up to $400 bonus | Fact Sheet |
| Yukon Gold | | 97 | $50 bonus | Fact Sheet |
| Casino Kingdom | | 77 | $100 Match Bonus | Fact Sheet |
| Golden Tiger | | 96 | Play With $1500 and 60 minutes FREE | Fact Sheet |
| Royal Vegas | | 106 | $100 Free | Fact Sheet |
| Casino Action | | 47 | $1250 Free Play |
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| Lucky Emperor | | 50 | $100 Match bonus | Fact Sheet |
