Reel Play Poker - Jacks or Better: Another slots innovation from Microgaming

In an earlier blog titled Can video slots become more innovative? I commented: "Why not bring out a game where a player will have to play in the bonus game a round of TEXAS HOLD' EM or LET THEM RIDE or VEGAS STRIP BLACKJACK or any other game where besides pure luck some strategical thinking will also matter?

That will be a real innovation!"

I did not know at that time that Microgaming will release a few days later a video slot where you can also play Jacks or Better. The game is called Reel Play Poker - Jacks or Better, "slots with a  Poker twist". You are playing a video slot machine where a Royal Flush awards up to 320,000 coins!

It is a five reel, twenty payline, and four hundred coin slot machine. There are two sets of reels, the decision reels and the main reels. Card combinations are formed across the main reels paylines. All standard Poker Hands like Royal Flush, Straight Flush and Jacks or Better can be formed by clicking the Deal Spin Button. This spins 5 decision cards on the 5 decision reels. There you can hold the cards you want to hold by clicking them. They are marked held. Then you click the Draw Spin button. With that all positions of a reel corresponding to a 'held' card are stacked as held card. The cards not held are faced down. While the stacked reels are held in position, the remaining reels are spun. If a winning combination is possible on any of the active paylines, it is highlighted.

If you do not have a special Microgaming casino you favour to play this really innovative slot machine, we would recommend the Sun Vegas Casino where you can also claim 150% Match Bonus up to $100.