7/5 Bonus Poker Strategy and Pay Table
7/5 Bonus Poker uses the same three quad tiers as 8/5 Bonus Poker but cuts the full-house payout from 8-for-1 to 7-for-1. It is the short-pay Bonus Poker comparison in this catalog.
- Perfect-play return
- 98.01%
- House edge
- 1.99%
- Sharper Edge volatility
- Low–Medvolatility Low–Med, level 2.5 of 5
Overview
How this game plays
The visible action still centers on ordinary pairs and two pair between rarer quad bonuses. Sharper Edge rates it Low–Medium volatility, while the lower 98.01% configured return makes the cost of the short full-house line explicit.
The return shown is the configured long-run return at max bet with exact strategy, not a prediction for a single session.
Intermediate
Who it suits
- Players practicing how to spot a downgraded Bonus Poker pay table.
- Learners comparing payout changes within the same ruleset.
- Anyone testing whether familiar-looking holds retain their exact ordering.
7/5
Full pay table and rules
Payouts below are credits returned for wagers of one through five coins. Sharper Edge practice always uses the five-coin maximum, highlighted at right.
| Hand | 1 coin | 2 coins | 3 coins | 4 coins | 5 coins |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Flush | 250 | 500 | 750 | 1,000 | 4,000* |
| Straight Flush | 50 | 100 | 150 | 200 | 250 |
| Four Aces | 80 | 160 | 240 | 320 | 400 |
| Four 2s-4s | 40 | 80 | 120 | 160 | 200 |
| Four 5s-Kings | 25 | 50 | 75 | 100 | 125 |
| Full House | 7 | 14 | 21 | 28 | 35 |
| Flush | 5 | 10 | 15 | 20 | 25 |
| Straight | 4 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 20 |
| Three of a Kind | 3 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 15 |
| Two Pair | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 |
| Jacks or Better | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
No wild cards. Minimum paying hand: a pair of jacks or better. Standard play uses a 52-card deck, a five-card deal, one draw, and any hold from zero through five cards.
*The starred royal category returns 250-for-1 below max bet and 800-for-1 at the five-coin maximum. Return and edge shown on this page assume max bet and exact strategy.
Pay-table identity
What makes it different
The short-pay version of Bonus Poker: the full house drops to 7-for-1 while every other line matches 8/5. Return falls to 98.01% — a 1.99% house edge, the worst in the bonus family here.
It sits next to the 8/5 game for the same reason the two JoB games sit together: one line on the glass, more than a full percentage point of return gone.
What to practice
Strategy priorities
- 1The full-house cut lowers the value of two-pair and three-of-a-kind improvement draws.
- 2Two pair still pays 2-for-1; keep the whole dealt combination unless a stronger exact draw is present.
- 3Use exact analysis for borderline holds instead of importing an 8/5 chart unchanged.
Worked decision
Two pair remains stronger than ace chasing
Discard K♠ and hold both pairs.
Both pairs: 2.426 EV per coin · aces alone: 1.672.
The lower full-house award trims this hold relative to 8/5 Bonus Poker, but holding both pairs is still clearly best. The engine accounts for every full-house completion after the one-card draw.
EV is per coin and comes from enumerating every legal draw for this exact five-card deal.
Baseline
Compared with 9/6 Jacks or Better
7/5 Bonus Poker changes both the payouts and the decision priorities. Percentage-point deltas below use 9/6 Jacks or Better as the reference.
| Metric | 7/5 Bonus Poker | 9/6 baseline | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perfect-play return | 98.01% | 99.54% | ▼ −1.53 pp |
| House edge | 1.99% | 0.46% | ▲ +1.53 pp |
| Sharper Edge volatility | Low–Med | Low | ▲ +0.5 levels |
Keep comparing
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Turn the pay table into a decision habit
Practice 7/5 Bonus Poker with all 32 holds ranked by exact EV, then review the cost of every decision separately from the cards you happened to draw.