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Vista Ultimate Texas Hold Em Game

1. Vista Gaming refers to Texas Hold 'Em Bonus as just Texas Hold 'Em, which makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Texas Hold 'Em is the player against player game you see in every poker room in Las Vegas.
2. Simple Casino Ultimate Texas Hold'em Game. Try your casino strategy without risk. This game does nothing else than simulating the 'ultimate texas hold'em' poker game in a casino. The idea behind this game is orignated during a visit in a casino. We wanted to know, if it is even possible to win money in this game.

Introduction

Ultimate Texas Hold'em® is a poker-based casino game in which the player may make one raise at any time during the course of the hand. The earlier the raise is made the higher it may be. Unlike other poker-based games, raises made after the ante still have action, even if the dealer doesn't open. This game was invented by Roger Snow of Shuffle Master. The same base game is also distributed by Galaxy Gaming under the name Heads Up Hold 'Em.

ULTIMATE TEXAS HOLD ’EM® is a registered trademark of Bally Gaming, Inc. and is used with permission on this website.

Rules

Following are the standard rules as played in the United States. There is a variant played in Auckland, New Zealand, I address following the standard rules.

1. The game is played with a single ordinary 52-card deck.
2. The player must make an equal bet on both the Ante and Blind, and can also make an optional Trips bet.
3. Two cards are dealt face down to the player and dealer. The player may look at his own cards.
4. The player can check or make a Play bet equal to three or four times the Ante.
5. The dealer turns over three community cards.
6. If the player previously checked, then he may make a Play bet equal to two times his Ante. If the player already made a Play bet, then he may not bet further.
7. Two final community cards are turned over.
8. If the player previously checked twice, then he must either make a Play bet equal to exactly his Ante, or fold, losing both his Ante and Blind bets. If the player already raised he may not bet further.
9. The player and dealer will both make the best possible hand using any combination of their own two cards and the five community cards.*
10. The dealer will need at least a pair to open.
11. The following table shows how the Blind, Ante, and Play bets are scored, according to who wins, and whether the dealer opens.

    Scoring Rules

    Winner	Dealer Opens	Blind	Ante	Play
    Player	Yes	Win	Win	Win
    Player	No	Win	Push	Win
    Dealer	Yes	Lose	Lose	Lose
    Dealer	No	Lose	Push	Lose
    Tie	Yes or No	Push	Push	Push

12. Winning Ante and Play bets pay 1 to 1. Winning Blind bets pay according to the following pay table.

    Blind Bet Pay Table

    Player Hand	Pays
    Royal flush	500 to 1
    Straight flush	50 to 1
    Four of a kind	10 to 1
    Full house	3 to 1
    Flush	3 to 2
    Straight	1 to 1
    All other	Push

13. The Trips bet will pay according to the poker value of the player's hand regardless of the value of the dealer's hand, according to one of the Trips bet pay tables below.

Notes:

* While the standard rules let both player and dealer use any five cards to make their best poker hand, in Auckland, New Zeland, both sides must make use of both hole cards and three of the five community cards. An analysis of the game under this rule can be found in my page on Ultimate Texas Hold 'Em -- Auckland Variant.

Analysis

There are 52 possible outcomes of each hand. The table below shows the probability of each and the contribution to the total return, assuming optimal strategy. A 4X raise is referred to as a 'large raise,' a 2X raise as 'medium,' and 1x as 'small.'

Return TableExpand

Raise	Dealer Qualifies	Player Hand	Winner	Pays	Combinations	Probability	Return
Large	Yes	Less than straight	Player	5	3,671,050,165,880	0.131987	0.659933
Large	Yes	Straight	Player	6	246,174,692,160	0.008851	0.053105
Large	Yes	Flush	Player	6.5	241,047,929,080	0.008666	0.056332
Large	Yes	Full house	Player	8	295,405,180,920	0.010621	0.084966
Large	Yes	Four of a kind	Player	15	23,008,208,760	0.000827	0.012408
Large	Yes	Straight flush	Player	55	1,818,135,760	0.000065	0.003595
Large	Yes	Royal flush	Player	505	596,356,920	0.000021	0.010828
Large	No	Less than straight	Player	4	1,556,797,035,840	0.055972	0.223888
Large	No	Straight	Player	5	81,416,649,960	0.002927	0.014636
Large	No	Flush	Player	5.5	50,874,988,680	0.001829	0.010060
Large	No	Full house	Player	7	0	0.000000	0.000000
Large	No	Four of a kind	Player	14	0	0.000000	0.000000
Large	No	Straight flush	Player	54	229,686,840	0.000008	0.000446
Large	No	Royal flush	Player	504	90,386,280	0.000003	0.001638
Large	0	Push	0	285,142,270,600	0.010252	0.000000
Large	Yes	Dealer	-6	3,931,554,359,920	0.141353	-0.848116
Large	No	Dealer	-5	102,655,952,400	0.003691	-0.018454
Medium	Yes	Less than straight	Player	3	2,114,839,654,764	0.076036	0.228107
Medium	Yes	Straight	Player	4	133,100,158,992	0.004785	0.019142
Medium	Yes	Flush	Player	4.5	152,618,008,784	0.005487	0.024692
Medium	Yes	Full house	Player	6	289,401,836,880	0.010405	0.062430
Medium	Yes	Four of a kind	Player	13	18,537,793,620	0.000666	0.008664
Medium	Yes	Straight flush	Player	53	2,704,129,504	0.000097	0.005153
Medium	Yes	Royal flush	Player	503	112,333,500	0.000004	0.002031
Medium	No	Less than straight	Player	2	1,083,763,469,592	0.038965	0.077930
Medium	No	Straight	Player	3	45,053,788,356	0.001620	0.004860
Medium	No	Flush	Player	3.5	38,820,798,396	0.001396	0.004885
Medium	No	Full house	Player	5	0	0.000000	0.000000
Medium	No	Four of a kind	Player	12	0	0.000000	0.000000
Medium	No	Straight flush	Player	52	358,131,456	0.000013	0.000670
Medium	No	Royal flush	Player	502	8,830,620	0.000000	0.000159
Medium	Push	0	191,611,691,060	0.006889	0.000000
Medium	Yes	Dealer	-4	1,841,155,221,088	0.066196	-0.264783
Medium	No	Dealer	-3	7,978,353,108	0.000287	-0.000861
Small	Yes	Less than straight	Player	2	1,375,033,295,072	0.049437	0.098874
Small	Yes	Straight	Player	3	395,087,247,768	0.014205	0.042614
Small	Yes	Flush	Player	3.5	190,959,227,136	0.006866	0.024030
Small	Yes	Full house	Player	5	43,297,986,840	0.001557	0.007784
Small	Yes	Four of a kind	Player	12	859,737,984	0.000031	0.000371
Small	Yes	Straight flush	Player	52	1,962,591,576	0.000071	0.003669
Small	Yes	Royal flush	Player	502	42,135,660	0.000002	0.000760
Small	No	Less than straight	Player	1	720,579,458,748	0.025907	0.025907
Small	No	Straight	Player	2	136,018,223,484	0.004890	0.009781
Small	No	Flush	Player	2.5	40,911,000,804	0.001471	0.003677
Small	No	Full house	Player	4	0	0.000000	0.000000
Small	No	Four of a kind	Player	11	0	0.000000	0.000000
Small	No	Straight flush	Player	51	269,696,304	0.000010	0.000495
Small	No	Royal flush	Player	501	6,109,020	0.000000	0.000110
Small	Push	0	418,339,128,088	0.015041	0.000000
Small	Yes	Dealer	-3	2,700,150,685,692	0.097079	-0.291238
Small	No	Dealer	-2	47,223,220,344	0.001698	-0.003396
Fold				-2	5,335,144,079,760	0.191816	-0.383633
Total				27,813,810,024,000	1.000000	-0.021850

The lower right cell shows a house edge of 2.185% per ante bet. What this means, for example, is if you bet $1 and both the Ante and Blind initially, then you can expect to lose 2.185 cents on average. However for comparison to other games I believe the Element of Risk is more appropriate to look at. The average total amount bet by the end of the hand is 4.152252 times the ante bet. So the element of risk would be 2.185%/4.152252 = 0.526%. The standard deviation, relative to the Ante bet, is 4.94.

Large bettors should be wary of maximum payouts. If your ante bet is more than 1/500 of the maximum payout, then you will get shortchanged on a royal flush. For every 100 the effective payout on a royal goes down, the house edge will go up by 0.308%. In other words, the increase in the house edge will be [500-(MP/500)]*0.0000308, where MP is the maximum payout.

The next table shows the average wager and return from each bet.

Ultimate Texas Hold 'Em® Return Table

Bet Type	Average Wager	Average Pays	Average Win
Ante	1	-0.165757	-0.165757
Blind	1	-0.314685	-0.314685
Play	2.152252	0.213076	0.458593
Total	4.152252	-0.02185

Wizard Strategy

The following is my 'Wizard Strategy' for Ultimate Texas Hold 'Em®.

Large Raise: The following table shows when to make the 4X raise.

Medium Raise: Make the 2X raise with any of the following:

• Two pair or better.
• Hidden pair*, except pocket deuces.
• Four to a flush including a hidden 10 or better to that flush

* Hidden pair = Any pair with at least one card in your hole cards (thus the pair is hidden to the dealer).

Ultimate Texas Hold Em Free

Small Raise: Make the 1X raise with any of the following, otherwise fold:

• Hidden pair or better.
• Less than 21 dealer outs beat you.

Example

Vista Ultimate Texas Holdem Strategy

What I mean by an 'out' is a dealer hole card that will cause you to lose. Let's look at this situation as an example.

In the example above, there 15 cards that will pair the dealer and beat you (three suits each of K, 7, 2, A, and 10). Then there are the two ranks (jacks and queens) which will out-kick the player. All four jacks and queens remain in the decks, so that is 2×4=8 more cards that will beat you. So, we're up to 15+8=23. We don't count the other three nines because those will result in a push. So, because there are only 23 outs (21 or more), we fold.

BTW, using my Ultimate Texas Hold 'Em® calculator, we see that the expected value of raising this hand is -2.136364, which is less than the -2 of folding.

I get asked a lot about combinations of cards that will beat the player. For example, any two dealer spades that would give the dealer a flush in the example above. The answer is no. It would really make things complicated if the strategy accounted for double-card combinations that would beat the player.

Following my Wizard strategy will result in a house edge of 2.43% and an Element of Risk of 0.58%.

The second and third decision points are influenced by the James Grosjean strategy, for which I have great respect, as I do for all of Grosjean's work. I highly recommend his strategy if you want to something even more powerful than my simple strategy above.

Trips Bet

Shufflemaster literature mentions the following four possible pay tables on the Trips bet.

Trips Bet - Pay Table 1

Player Hand	Combinations	Pays	Probability	Return
Royal flush	4324	50	0.000032	0.001616
Straight flush	37260	40	0.000279	0.01114
Four of a kind	224848	30	0.001681	0.05042
Full house	3473184	9	0.025961	0.233649
Flush	4047644	7	0.030255	0.211785
Straight	6180020	4	0.046194	0.184775
Three of a kind	6461620	3	0.048299	0.144896
All other	113355660	-1	0.8473	-0.8473
Total	133784560	1	-0.009018

Trips Bet - Pay Table 2

Player Hand	Combinations	Pays	Probability	Return
Royal flush	4324	50	0.000032	0.001616
Straight flush	37260	40	0.000279	0.01114
Four of a kind	224848	30	0.001681	0.05042
Full house	3473184	8	0.025961	0.207688
Flush	4047644	6	0.030255	0.18153
Straight	6180020	5	0.046194	0.230969
Three of a kind	6461620	3	0.048299	0.144896
All other	113355660	-1	0.8473	-0.8473
Total	133784560	1	-0.01904

Trips Bet — Pay Table 3

Player Hand	Combinations	Pays	Probability	Return
Royal flush	4324	50	0.000032	0.001616
Straight flush	37260	40	0.000279	0.01114
Four of a kind	224848	30	0.001681	0.05042
Full house	3473184	8	0.025961	0.207688
Flush	4047644	7	0.030255	0.211785
Straight	6180020	4	0.046194	0.184775
Three of a kind	6461620	3	0.048299	0.144896
All other	113355660	-1	0.8473	-0.8473
Total	133784560	1	-0.034979

Pay table #3 seen at the Mirage.

Trips Bet - Pay Table 4

Player Hand	Combinations	Pays	Probability	Return
Royal flush	4324	50	0.000032	0.001616
Straight flush	37260	40	0.000279	0.01114
Four of a kind	224848	20	0.001681	0.033613
Full house	3473184	7	0.025961	0.181727
Flush	4047644	6	0.030255	0.18153
Straight	6180020	5	0.046194	0.230969
Three of a kind	6461620	3	0.048299	0.144896
All other	113355660	-1	0.8473	-0.8473
Total	133784560	1	-0.061808

Pay table #4 seen at Shufflemaster TableMax units.

Common Progressive

This is the most common progressive jackpot, in my experience, so I'll title it the 'Common Progressive.' I used to title it the 'Michigan Progressive,' when the only known placement was in Michigan, but now it is seen all over the place.

There is just a single bet amount, which can be $1 or $5, depending on the table. Wins are based on the player's two hole cards and the three flop cards. The following table shows the probability and contribution to the return for the various wins. Wins are relative to the amount bet and are on a 'for one' basis.

Common Progressive

Event	Pays	Envy Bonus	Combinations	Probability	Return	Envy Return
Royal flush	100% of jackpot	1000	4	0.000002	0.000000	0.001539
Straight flush	10% of jackpot	300	36	0.000014	0.000000	0.004156
Four of a kind	300	624	0.000240	0.072029	0.000000
Full house	50	3,744	0.001441	0.072029	0.000000
Flush	40	5,108	0.001965	0.078616	0.000000
Straight	30	10,200	0.003925	0.117739	0.000000
Three of a kind	9	54,912	0.021128	0.190156	0.000000
Total	74,628	0.028715	0.530569	0.005695

What the table above immediately shows us is fixed wins return 53.06% to the player. For each additional player at the table, besides yourself, your return goes up by 0.57% from the Envy Bonus.

For a $1 bet, every $10,000 in the meter adds 2.924% to the return. Likewise, for a $5 bet, every $50,000 in the meter adds 2.924% to the return.

The next table shows the break-even point, where the Progressive side bet has zero house edge, according to the bet amount and number of other players (not counting yourself).

Common Progressive

Other Players	$1 Bet	$5 Bet
0	$160,530.53	$802,652.63
1	$158,583.16	$792,915.79
2	$156,635.79	$783,178.95
3	$154,688.42	$773,442.11
4	$152,741.05	$763,705.26
5	$150,793.68	$753,968.42

Small Progressive

Many tables in Las Vegas offer a $1 progressive side bet. The top win is for a royal flush using at least one hole card, which I call a 'hidden royal flush.' There is also a $100 envy bonus if another player gets a hidden royal. The following table shows the return of the fixed wins only, not counting the envy bonus. It shows a return of 45.68%, before considering the jackpot and envy bonuses.

Small Progressive

Event	Pays	Envy	Combinations	Probability	Return
Hidden royal flush	Jackpot	$100	86,480	0.000031	?
Community royal flush	$1000	$0	4,324	0.000002	0.001539
Straight flush	$250	$0	782,460	0.000279	0.069627
Four of a kind	$75	$0	4,721,808	0.001681	0.126050
Full house	$10	$0	72,936,864	0.025961	0.259610
All other	$0	$0	2,730,943,824	0.972047	0.000000
Total	2,809,475,760	1.000000	0.456827 + ?

The return per $1000 in jackpot is 3.08%. The return for the Envy Bonus is 0.308% for each additional player at the table. So each additional player at the table is worth $100 in the meter.

The next table shows how big the jackpot has to be for the Small Progressive to have exactly a 100% return, or zero house advantage.

Break Even Jackpots

Other Players	Jackpot
5	$17,146.07
4	$17,246.07
3	$17,346.07
2	$17,446.07
1	$17,546.07
0	$17,646.07

Buffalo Thunder Progressive

The Big Progressive tends to be much larger, because the player must flop a royal flush to win it. In other words, the player cannot make use of the Turn and River cards to win the progressive, unlike in the Small Progressive. There is no Envy Bonus. It was seen at the Buffalo Thunder casino in New Mexico.

Buffalo Thunder Progressive

Event	Pays	Permutations	Probability	Return
Player flops royal	100% of jackpot	1037760	0.000002	?
Royal partially on board	5% of jackpot	19717440	0.000029	?
Royal entirely on board	3000	1037760	0.000002	0.004617
Straight flush	250	187790400	0.000279	0.069627
Four of a kind	100	1133233920	0.001681	0.168067
Full house	10	17504847360	0.025961	0.25961
All other	0	655426517760	0.972047	0
Total	674274182400	1	0.502077 + ?

The return for at any given time is 50.19% plus 3.00% for each $10,000 in the meter. For exactly zero house edge, the meter would need to be $165,959.74. I'm told the meter is seeded at $5,000, and 27% of money bet goes towards the meter. Fixed wins are not deducted from the meter. That would make the overall return 77.96%.

Bad Beat Bonus

At the Admiral casino in Liechtenstein there is a Bad Beat Bonus side bet. It pays if either the player or dealer lose with a three of a kind or better. Gaming literature mentions two different pay tables. My analysis of both is below. The bottom line is a house edge of 14.79% on pay table 1 and 20.39% on pay table 2.

Bad Beat Bonus — Pay Table 1

Losing Hand	Pays	Combinations	Probability	Return
Straight flush	7,500	10,300,592	0.000004	0.027776
Four of a kind	500	471,040,512	0.000169	0.084677
Full house	50	8,435,225,376	0.003033	0.151637
Flush	30	19,434,208,592	0.006987	0.209618
Straight	20	18,271,076,976	0.006569	0.131381
Three of a kind	9	64,049,759,448	0.023028	0.207252
Low hand win*	-1	2,557,579,127,088	0.919536	-0.919536
Tie	-1	113,130,263,816	0.040674	-0.040674
Total	2,781,381,002,400	1.000000	-0.147868

Bad Beat Bonus — Pay Table 2

Losing Hand	Pays	Combinations	Probability	Return
Straight flush	10,000	10,300,592	0.000004	0.037034
Four of a kind	500	471,040,512	0.000169	0.084677
Full house	40	8,435,225,376	0.003033	0.121310
Flush	25	19,434,208,592	0.006987	0.174681
Straight	20	18,271,076,976	0.006569	0.131381
Three of a kind	9	64,049,759,448	0.023028	0.207252
Low hand win*	-1	2,557,579,127,088	0.919536	-0.919536
Tie	-1	113,130,263,816	0.040674	-0.040674
Total	2,781,381,002,400	1.000000	-0.203873

*: A 'low hand win' is a winning hand of two pair or less.

Hole Card Bonus

I'm told this side bet can be found in Washington state, the Flamingo in Las Vegas, and Norwegian cruise ship casinos. It pays based on the player's hole cards, except the top award also involves the dealer's hole cards. The lower right cell in the following table shows a house edge of 8.54%.

Hole Card Bonus

Bet	Pays	Combinations	Probability	Return
Player and dealer have aces	1000	6	0.000004	0.003694
Pair of aces	30	7,344	0.004521	0.135636
A/K suited	25	4,900	0.003017	0.075415
A/Q or A/J suited	20	9,800	0.006033	0.120664
AK off-suit	15	14,700	0.009050	0.135747
Pair J's - K's	10	22,050	0.013575	0.135747
A/Q or A/J off-suit	5	29,400	0.018100	0.090498
Pair 2's - 10's	3	66,150	0.040724	0.122172
All other	-1	1,470,000	0.904977	-0.904977
Total	1,624,350	1.000000	-0.085406

Australian Rules

I have an unconfirmed report that at the Crown casino in Perth, Australia, the blind bet pushes if the dealer doesn't qualify and the dealer wins. Assuming no change in strategy, this happens 1 in every 176 hands. When it happens, the player will lose one less unit. The effect is a reduction in the house edge from 2.185% to 1.617%.

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Some casinos add on a side bet known as the 6-Card Bonus. This side bet is found on multiple poker-derivative games, so I created a special page for it. For more information, please see my page on the 6-Card Bonus.

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External Links

• Wikipedia — Entry on Ultimate Texas Hold 'Em.
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Written by: Michael Shackleford

Introduction

Vista Gaming was founded in 1996, and provides their software mainly to online bingo sites with an online casino mixed in occasionally. Players who have used Vista Gaming software in the past have commented on how it looks dated, and is generally unimpressive, even when compared to developers like Rival or Real Time Gaming, who don't necessarily put out the best looking games in the world.

Vista Gaming CasinosExpand

Name		Wizards Seal	DE Friendly	Play
Vegas Crest Casino	YES	YES

Baccarat

Baccarat

Standard baccarat rules are followed with eight decks of cards. The tie bet pays 8 to 1. The house edge of the three bets are as follows:

• Banker: 1.06%.
• Player: 1.24%.
• Tie: 14.36%.

Both the graphics and audio sometimes incorrectly refer to the Banker as the 'dealer.'

The limits at the Vegas Crest casino are $1-$100.

Bingo

It is my understanding that Vista started out as an online bingo company. So it should be no surprise that live player vs. player bingo is one of their strongest games. My only exposure to them were the practice games that I played on the Vista web site, by myself. Based on that experience, the bingo games seem fun and entertaining. The pace was nice and slow, compared to other places, so it is probably a good place for your money to last a while.

It should be noted that what I call Rival Powered Bingo is made, obviously, by Rival Powered, despite the game saying 'Vista Gaming' when it loads.

Blackjack

Blackjack

The blackjack game has a very unusual set of rules. After playing many hands, here is my understanding of them:

• Eight decks.
• Dealer hits soft 17 (contrary to what the felt says).
• Dealer peeks for blackjack only with an ace up. If player doubles or splits against a ten, and the dealer gets a blackjack, then the player will lose everything.
• Player may double on hard 8 to 11 only.
• Player may not double after a split.
• Player may split only once.
• Early surrender against a 2-10, and late surrender against an ace.
• Eight-card Charlie (eight-card hand is an automatic winner).

To get the house edge under this bizarre set of rules I had to use both my blackjack house edge calculator and my list of rule variations. After considering everything, I get a house edge of 0.78%.

Here is my basic strategy under under this set of rules.

The limits at the Vegas Crest casino are 50¢-$100.

Casino War

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The game of Casino War also has an usual set of rules. Normally if there is a tie after going to war it is a win for the player. However, with the Vista Gaming version, the player has the option to surrender or go to war again. What happens if there is a third tie? The same thing. I'm told that the player can go to war up to ten times. No word on what happens on the 11th consecutive tie, but that will probably never happen. Eight decks are used.

Following is my analysis of Casino War under this set of rules. The lower right cell shows a house edge of 4.04%. Compare that to 2.88% under the standard rules.

Vista Gaming Casino War

Net Win	Probability	Return
1	0.500000000000	0.500000000000
-1	0.462650602410	-0.462650602410
-2	0.034559442590	-0.069118885179
-3	0.002581548724	-0.007744646171
-4	0.000192838579	-0.000771354317
-5	0.000014404810	-0.000072024048
-6	0.000001076022	-0.000006456132
-7	0.000000080378	-0.000000562643
-8	0.000000006004	-0.000000048033
-9	0.000000000448	-0.000000004036
-10	0.000000000034	-0.000000000335
-11	0.000000000003	-0.000000000028
Total	1.000000000000	-0.040364583331

Double Exposure

Vista Gaming calls their double exposure game Bare All Blackjack. The online rules are incorrectly the same as those for blackjack. It would take me hours to determine the actual rules by trial and error playing. Until they put up the correct rules for the game, I am afraid you are on your own on this one.

The limits at the Vegas Crest casino are $1-$100.

Slots

Disco Fever	Coral Reef	Games Bond
Lost Vikings	Pirates of the Sea	Sands of Egypt
Tutti Frutti 5	Tweet Tweet 4	Jewel Z 5

Vista does a good job with the slot machines. This would seem to be a strength of theirs, especially compared to table games. It can be hard telling a Vista slot machine from Rival or any other company. Here is a list of games that are identified as Vista from the company web site:

• Lost Vikings
• Sands of Egypt
• Princess of the Sea
• Amazon Quest
• Monster House
• The Lucky Farm
• Mystery at the Manor
• Coral Reef
• Wanted
• Scary Night
• Be Wild
• Frankie's Place
• Disco Fever
• Grocery Store
• Games Bond
• Reel Wheels
• Circus
• Havana Nights
• Rock Star
• Lucks 7s

Vista also identifies some of their games as 'arcade games.' Personally, I feel an 'arcade game' should involve some element of skill, like shooting baskets, rolling balls or pounding gophers.

In the case of the Vista, the arcade games are variations of a game popularly known as Chain Reactors. There is a square array of random symbols and the player is paid according to how many like symbols can be found adjacent to each other. Then they disappear, the symbols above drop down, and new symbols replace the vacuum. This keeps happening until there is no paying combination.

I hope Vista will forgive me in calling these slot games, which I consider them to be. The ones I am aware they have are:

• Tutti Frutti 4
• Tutti Frutti 5
• Tweet Tweet 4
• Tweet Tweet 5
• Jewelz 5

The number in the title identifies the number of symbols on any one side of the matrix.

Table All American

This is a table game version of the video poker game All American. The player may play one to five betting spots. Vista follows the same pay table as the video poker game, except a royal flush pays 250 instead of 800 per coin bet. This lowers the house edge from 96.27% to 95.12%.

Table Deuces Wild

Table Deuces Wild

This is a table game version of the video poker game deuces wild. The player may play one to five betting spots. Vista follows the same pay table as the video poker game, except a royal flush pays 250 instead of 800 per coin bet. This lowers the house edge from 99.48% to 98.31%.

Texas Hold 'Em Bonus

Vista Gaming refers to Texas Hold 'Em Bonus as just Texas Hold 'Em, which makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Texas Hold 'Em is the player against player game you see in every poker room in Las Vegas.

At least Vista follows the liberal Vegas rules, where a winning straight or better pays even money on the Ante, as opposed to the stingy Atlantic City rules.

The house edge under the Vegas rules is 2.04%.

Video Poker

10s or Better	Deuces & Joker Wild	Deuces Wild
Bonus Poker	Jacks or Better	Double Joker Poker
Double Bonus	All American	Joker Poker (kings or better)

The following table shows the Video Poker games available in alphabetical order.

Vista Gaming Video Poker Alphabetic Order

Game	Power Poker	Pay Table	Return
All American	Yes	1-1-3-7-7-7-40-200-800	96.26%
Bonus Poker	No	1-2-3-4-5-6-25-40-80-50-250	95.63%
Deuces Wild	Yes	1-2-2-3-5-8-15-20-200-800	99.48%
Deuces and Joker Wild	Yes	1-1-2-2-3-4-8-10-20-500-2000	86.25%
Double Bonus	Yes	1-1-3-4-6-9-50-80-160-50-250	95.24%
Double Joker Poker	Yes	1-2-3-4-5-7-25-50-100-800	96.24%
Jacks or Better	Yes	1-2-3-5-6-9-20-40-800	99.56%
Joker Poker (kings or better)	Yes	1-1-2-3-4-5-7-25-50-100-500	81.46%

Here is the same list in returns range, choose your game wisely.

Vista Gaming Video Poker Return Order

Game	Power Poker	Pay Table	Return
Jacks or Better	Yes	1-2-3-5-6-9-20-40-800	99.56%
Deuces Wild	Yes	1-2-2-3-5-8-15-20-200-800	99.48%
All American	Yes	1-1-3-7-7-7-40-200-800	96.26%
Double Joker Poker	Yes	1-2-3-4-5-7-25-50-100-800	96.24%
Bonus Poker	No	1-2-3-4-5-6-25-40-80-50-250	95.63%
Double Bonus	Yes	1-1-3-4-6-9-50-80-160-50-250	95.24%
Deuces and Joker Wild	Yes	1-1-2-2-3-4-8-10-20-500-2000	86.25%
Joker Poker (kings or better)	Yes	1-1-2-3-4-5-7-25-50-100-500	81.46%

Conclusion

Vista Gaming is a gambling software developer who has been around for a long time, but is generally more focused on bingo software than on table games, slots, or video poker. The company seems to provide their software to bingo sites primarily, but does also supply games to Vegas Crest Casino, which also offers Rival games to players.

Players playing casino titles by Vista Gaming will notice that the titles generally look dated and the selection of games is not the best in the industry. If you are willing to overlook these faults, then Vista Gaming titles can be a fun and decent experience to try.

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