When it comes to playing video poker I consider myself savvy enough to know the basic rules of video poker, however I do have a question regarding the auto hold feature that's available in most versions of video poker both those found at online casinos and offline.

Anyways my impression is that the auto hold feature holds cards that maximize your chances of winning on the draw, is assumption correct?

Let's say that I play Jacks or Better video poker and I get the following:

Jack (club), Jack (spades), Ace (club), Queen (club), King Club). AS you can see I'd be in line for a royal flush however the odds that I'll draw a 10 of clubs is very unlikely here so if auto play would hold the two jacks would I be better off un-holding those cards and trying for the royal flush?

Thanks for your help and advice...

I personally don't spend a huge amount of time playing video poker online but from the amount of play that I do play I do rely on auto-hold to a certain extent when playing however I know hands well enough that in the case that you describe I would certainly opt for holding the potential Royal Flush then the other hand paying out far less.