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Maybe I have missed the boat on this somewhere, but can anyone tell me of any casino that alters its paytables to pay significantly more than the usual, ridiculous 250 credits for a straightflush on any of its games??? This has always been a pet peeve of mine when it comes to video poker.....a straight flush is among the rarest of the rare in any given stretch of video poker sessions, and yet the payoff is puny and monotonous at that.....I hate it.  Everytime I hit a straight flush whether on the draw or a slam dunk first deal, the excitement and joy of hitting a nice looking straight flush is killed (call it a buzzkill) when the paltry 250 credit payoff ding-dings its way into my reality comment removed thoughts?

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Do you think this is really appropriate?

Let's keep it clean. Thanks. 

I agree DaBurglar, IMHO, the straight flush should definitely be double the current amount. That is also one of the hands more often missed by addicts, myself included! I am often surprised when it hits!

SDB/SDDB pays 400-500 credits for a SF so it's a bit of an improvement. The All American (or USA Poker) game pays 1000 I believe but it's pretty hard to find it these days. TB+ pays 500 coins.
 
My OEJs game pays 250 but the frequency is much higher (a little less than a quad in bonus games) so that payoff is pretty good.
 


Of course, it's the entire paytable that really matters.

My pet peeve about SFs is that a 1 (ace) thru 5 straight flush should pay the same as a Royal since it is closed on one end. Think about it.

I've seen a few paytables where straight flushes pay 300, but those are usually Class 2 (lottery based) machines. Caesars has managed to top themselves by shorting the straight flush, paying only 239 credits on some of the supposedly full pay machines in the high limit areas at Ballys and Rio in Vegas. Not surprisingly I've seen few peeps playing those games at $5 and up denom.

The only place I can recall seeing the sf more than 250 is on the DDB progressive at Harrah's Laughlin.

All of the Super Double Bonus games I have played paid 400 for the SF.

Caesars has managed to top themselves by shorting the straight flush, paying only 239 credits on some of the supposedly full pay machines in the high limit areas at Ballys and Rio in Vegas. Not surprisingly I've seen few peeps playing those games at $5 and up denom.The reason for this is so that when you hit the elusive straight flush playing $5/single line, a W2-g is not needed for the hit of $1195 (239 x 5) versus the normal $1250 (250 x5). This is only true of games like jacks or better where all quads return 125. Therefore the only W2-g's generated on those games are for royal flushes.