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Video Poker Trainer is a one-person project. No editorial team, no casino affiliate deals, no sponsored pay tables. Every strategy value and every return percentage on this site comes out of a combinatorial engine built specifically for it, not out of a book, a forum post, or someone else's spreadsheet.
This is a single-project effort, not a company or an editorial team: one combinatorial engine, built specifically for this site, powering every trainer, strategy page, and calculator here. There's no staff of writers, no outside contributors, and no ghost-written content — every number traces back to the same engine, described in full on the methodology page.
Most "video poker trainer" sites fall into one of two camps. The first is a handful of genuinely excellent, math-heavy sites that have been around since the 1990s, run by serious analysts, but built on old technology: multi-minute calculations, dense tables, no mobile design. The second is a much larger group of thin, ad-heavy, affiliate-driven sites that exist mainly to funnel you toward a specific online casino, where the "strategy advice" is an afterthought bolted onto a bonus-code page.
This site is an attempt at a third thing: the same rigor as the first camp, computed instantly in your browser instead of over minutes, with a modern interface, no casino affiliate links, and no signup wall. You can verify that claim yourself — the return calculator and hand analyzer run the actual computation client-side, not a lookup against a table someone typed in once.
Every hold value, every strategy ranking, and every return percentage published here is produced by an engine that enumerates real draw outcomes rather than citing a number from elsewhere. It has been validated against the accepted published figures for every pay table on the site, to four decimal places. The full explanation, including the exact counting method, is on the methodology page. If a number here ever disagrees with another source, that is worth investigating, and you're welcome to check the math yourself in the tools rather than take the claim on faith.
Content is reviewed for accuracy against the engine's own computed output, not against how it reads. Numbers are re-verified whenever a page is updated, and pages that reference specific figures carry the date they were last reviewed. There is no commercial relationship that influences which pay tables are described as good or bad; the return figures speak for themselves and are computed the same way regardless of which casino, if any, offers that pay table.
If you find a number that looks wrong, the fastest way to check it is the hand analyzer or return calculator — enter the exact hand or pay table and compare. If the engine and a page genuinely disagree, that's a bug in the page, not the engine, and worth flagging.