Video poker games have a wide array of varieties, in which most of them are based on a certain card that performs a special function in the game or a certain poker hand that has a large effect in the video poker game.
Aces and Faces
Aces and Faces is a video poker game which is played with a standard 52-card deck. In this game, payouts are higher for any 4 of a kind of Aces, Jacks, Queens, and Kings. Thus, the name Aces and Faces is derived. There are no wild cards for this type of video poker.
Deuces Wild
The Deuces Wild is a variety of video poker, in which any deuce or two is considered as a wild card. Thus, it can be used as any card in the deck. It can be any rank of any suit, and is useful in completing a strong and winning poker hand. If you are dealt with one or more deuces, then the video poker machine will determine the other cards that you are holding, and it will assign the best card in the deck to complete the best possible poker hand and give you the highest possible payout.
Joker Poker
In the Joker Poker, a 53-card deck (including one Joker) is used, and the Joker acts as a wild card and can be substituted to any card in the deck of any rank or suit. Same to the Deuces Wild video poker, if you are dealt with a Joker, the machine will automatically assign the best card in place of the wild card to form the best possible combination.
Deuces and Joker
Deuces and Joker video poker game is a combination of both the Deuces Wild and the Joker Poker, in which both the deuces and the Joker are considered as wild cards and can be substituted to any card in the deck of any rank or suit in order to form the best possible poker hand. This variety also uses the 53-card deck.
Double Joker
The Double Joker video poker game uses a 54-card deck, including two Jokers (as the name implies), that is shuffled after each completed hand. The two Jokers are considered as wild cards and are useful in forming a strong winning hand.