Pick'em Poker is a newer and more unusual variety of video poker, at least compared to the more traditional games of Jacks or Better and Deuces Wild. You can usually find Pickem Poker on the multi-game machines in casinos, the ones where you determine which game you're going to play by touching a screen and choosing. Pick'em Poker has more similarities with stud poker and unlike any other video poker game it has an incredible payout – 99.95 percent. Instead of receiving five cards like you would normally receive in most other video poker games, you receive eight cards. Two of these cards are placed face up on the left and two sets of three cards on the right. After the deal you can see four cards as the top cards of the sets of cards on the right are up. You have to hold the two cards on the left. You have to hold them till the end of the game. You do get to pick which of the two stacks of cards on the right you want to keep though. When you select which stack you want to keep, the two cards dealt underneath the face up card are exposed, and your hand is made from the two cards on the left plus the three cards in the stack you kept. In fact this fact determines the outcome of the game. You have to make a right choice. The hand is formed of the two cards on the left and three cards you have left on the right. Computer Stud Poker Secrets.