Blossom Draw Poker
Five-card draw against a paytable, the way video poker has always worked. A pair of jacks is the lowest hand that pays, the schedule is the classic 9/6 version, and every deal comes from a full 52-card pack shuffled from scratch.
Jacks or Better · one draw
Choose your credits and stake, then deal five cards.
- Coin balance
- 10,000
Virtual coins · no cash value · nothing to buy
| Hand | Pays |
|---|---|
| Royal flush | 250 |
| Straight flush | 50 |
| Four of a kind | 25 |
| Full house | 9 |
| Flush | 6 |
| Straight | 4 |
| Three of a kind | 3 |
| Two pair | 2 |
| Jacks or better | 1 |
How often each hand arrives on the first five cards
There are 2,598,960 possible five-card hands from a 52-card pack. These figures are for the deal itself, before you hold anything — the draw is what shifts them, and that part is up to you.
| Hand | Roughly |
|---|---|
| Royal flush | 1 in 649,740 |
| Straight flush | 1 in 72,193 |
| Four of a kind | 1 in 4,165 |
| Full house | 1 in 694 |
| Flush | 1 in 509 |
| Straight | 1 in 255 |
| Two pair | 1 in 21 |
| One pair of any rank | 1 in 2.4 |
Most pairs will not be jacks or better, so a paying hand straight off the deal is less common than that last line suggests. The odds page goes through the working.
Lanterns, blossom and a machine that waits for you
Draw poker is the one game here with no clock on it. You can stare at four to a flush for as long as you like, so the sakura setting leans into that: deep indigo behind the cards, warm lantern light, no flashing anything.
The cards themselves stay conventional. Suits and ranks are printed plainly, because a themed deck that hides the rank of a card would make the hold decision harder for no good reason.
