Duel video poker is classic Jacks or Better with one huge twist: a genuine 0% house edge. You're dealt five cards, you choose which to hold, the rest are redrawn once, and the best poker hand pays — with a Royal Flush worth 813× your bet. Here's the full payout table, the rules, and a free hold-and-draw demo.
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Video poker is the solo, machine version of five-card draw, and the game people usually mean when they search "duel poker" on the originals menu. It's one of Duel's in-house provably-fair originals: you get five cards, decide which to keep, and the ones you throw away are replaced once. Your final five-card hand is scored against a fixed payout table.
The headline, like the rest of Duel's originals, is a 0% house edge. A normal Jacks-or-Better machine keeps around 0.5% even at full pay; Duel's runs at break-even on the allowance, and every deal is provably fair so you can verify it from the seeds. The catch that makes it fun: unlike a slot or roulette, your decisions matter — which cards you hold changes the maths.
Only the highest-ranking combination in your final hand is paid. A pair only counts if it's Jacks or better. Here's the full pay table on Duel:
Place a demo bet, hit Deal, then click the cards you want to hold and press Draw. Your hand is scored on the real Duel pay table above. No account, no money — just the hold-and-draw decision that makes video poker a game of skill.
A round is quick: place your bet and deal, and you get five cards from a single 52-card deck. Click any cards you want to keep — they light up as held — then press Draw. Every card you didn't hold is replaced once with a fresh card, and that final hand is your result.
Every deal is provably fair: the shuffle comes from a server seed, your client seed and a nonce, and the server seed is revealed afterwards so you can confirm the cards weren't stacked. You verify it yourself instead of trusting the brand.
There's no KYC as standard. Deposit crypto from about $1, register with just an email, and within Duel's daily Zero Edge allowance you play at 0% house edge. Duel runs on an Anjouan licence (ALSI-202411026-FI1) — an offshore licence, so local player protections differ from a domestic regulator. Winnings may be taxable where you live; check your local rules and play within your means.
Duel Blackjack has a full demo and side-bet payouts; Castle Roulette is the 0%-edge multiplier wheel with a demo spin.
