WinPoker vs Best Hold
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WinPoker
This app is a video poker trainer that allows users to learn and practice various video poker games. It offers multiple play modes, customizable game options, and detailed statistics to track performance and identify errors.
- Video poker trainer
- 31 video poker variations
- Single, triple, 5, and 10 play options
- Customizable pay tables
- Auto-hold, Warn, and No modes
- Detailed statistics tracking
- Analyze any hand feature
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WinPoker a video poker trainer for the iPhone. Learn how to correctly play video poker. Use WinPoker to play while you learn! Single play, triple play, 5 play and 10 play options that can be played with all of the 31 included video poker games!. Change modes from the options screen, or just swipe up to pull up 3, 5 or 10 hands or swipe down to take it back down. You can also create any game you want by changing the pay table of one of the built in games. You can also run a game analysis for any pay table created. 31 video poker variations – Highlighting some best known video poker games like: All American, Bonus Poker, Double Bonus, Double Double Bonus, Double Jackpot, Jacks or Better, Deuces Wild, Joker Poker - Kings or Better, Joker Wild - (Atlantic City) 5K Jackpot, just to name a few. Three Different Modes of Play **Auto-hold** WinPoker holds the correct play for you. **Warn** You hold the cards and WinPoker alerts you if your hold is not the play that has the highest expected return, or **No mode** Use this mode to duplicate the Casino experience. You play just as you would in a casino only now, you can stop and view the session and check to see if you made any errors. (You don't have that luxury in a Casino) Statistics show your wins, losses, total hands played, errors, the magnitude of those errors and what those errors potentially could cost you in cash! We give the game return for the 31 included games. Analyze Any Hand lets you enter the hand and peruse the detail analysis for the hand.
Best Hold
Optimize your video poker strategy with this app. Select your game variation, input your starting hand, and instantly discover the best cards to hold for the highest expected value.
- Select game variations (Jacks or Better, Deuces Wild, etc.)
- Input starting hand cards
- Instant best hold recommendations
- Optimizes for highest expected value
- Easy-to-use interface
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If you're a video poker player and want to optimize your play, you need the Best Hold app. Within seconds, you can determine the best hold for any dealt hand. It's brought to you by the experts at videopoker.com and is as easy to use as 1-2-3: 1. Select the game variation (i.e. Jacks or Better, Double Double Bonus, Deuces Wild, etc.) 2. Tap the cards for the starting hand 3. Tap the Check Hold button and the app tells you which cards to hold for the highest expected value
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: WinPoker at 78% against Best Hold's 0%. WinPoker also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). Best Hold's advantage is price (Free vs $9.99). On device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Best Hold is free to download; WinPoker costs $9.99 up front. Best Hold sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. WinPoker asks for nothing beyond the download.
WinPoker holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WinPoker has 92 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of WinPoker's written reviews are positive against 0% of Best Hold's.
WinPoker ships an update every 3 months, Best Hold every 18 months. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WinPoker | Best Hold |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (92 ratings) — better | 4.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 77.6% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 92 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 18 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #29 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 134 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Kaffer Enterprises, Inc. | VideoPoker.com |
Customer experience
WinPoker
Best Hold
Bugs and requests
WinPoker
Reported bugs
25 issues- Joker Wild flush detection incorrect
- Cannot change pay table on built-in games
- Cannot change games after update
- Update broke the app
- App crashes frequently
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- Lost all in-game money after crashes
- Analyze hand feature is useless after update
- Set cash only in large increments
- Cannot set cash to realistic amounts
- App freezes and crashes
- Money resets to zero on resume
- Statistics tracking causes crashes
- Volume control issues
- iPad version not working with new iOS
- Set cash feature broken since iOS 10.0.2
- WinPoker 2.1 problem with IOS 12.2
- Cannot SET CASH on WinPoker game
- Button to enlarge on iPad doesn't work
- Analyze hand feature crashes app
- RNG and strategy are off for DDB bonus
- Crashes when checking statistics
- Crashes when trying to look at odds
- Resets dollar amount and statistics after crash
- App hasn't been updated in a while
- WinPoker HD disappeared from App Store
Requested features
25 requests- iPad version optimization
- Bring back iPad version
- Allow changing games after update
- Fix button to change game
- Explain instructions better
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- Add newer games like Ultimate X
- Enhance the app
- Add drill mode for difficult plays
- Track cost of initial decisions
- Track frequency of mistakes
- Add 'Fast Track' training mode
- Allow playing hands from error record
- Adjust sound volume
- Update sound effects for quads
- Offer landscape iPad version
- Make it a universal app for iPhone and iPad
- Allow adjusting pay tables to lower percentages
- Add pickem
- Allow modification of pay scales in games
- Show pay tables
- Offer to view strategies for memorization
- Add more details on math involved
- Better explanations of statistics
- More info on penalty card situations
- HD version for iPad
Best Hold
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
WinPoker
No in-app purchases
Best Hold
- Ad Free$4.99
Questions
Is WinPoker free?
Is Best Hold free?
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