From a site that reviewed some of the games and instructional VP programs on the market. Hope it helps?

VP tutor, by Panamint Software, is an excellent practice and analysis tool. I found a copy of version 1.5 at Garbo; there is a much more up to date version available from Skip Hughes' VP Page. The registered version allows analysis of wild card games, variable 4 of a kind (such as Bonus, Double Bonus, and so on), and more. For DOS; ideal for practicing on a laptop computer.

Bob Dancer Presents WinPoker more or less superceeds VP Tutor these days. It's not written by Dan, but by Dean Zamzow (email). See the Zamzow Software Solutions web page. This program is available as shareware (only handles 9/6 JOB); the full version handles a lot more games than VP Tutor, and has a lot more features. You can't (as of this writing) create new wild card games (e.g. nines wild), but you can modify the payoffs for any game (and thus track the effects of jackpot changes, etc). It has some great practice modes as well. US$29.95 to register. Would work well on a modern laptop. Highly recommended. For Windows.

Masque Video Poker (commercial software) comes with a nice booklet by Lenny Frome. It is a simple play program with a good practice mode, where you can select the level (beginner to advanced) of hands that you want to practice. It is not customisable, and contains table for the 5 most common full pay US machines. I managed to modify one of the tables to be reasonably close to Australian payoffs, by editing the binary data files with a hex editor. For DOS.

Casino Vérité sells a software package for Blackjack, Video Poker, and Pai Gow poker. My impression of Casino Vérité Video Poker is that is a very flash program (lots of dazzling graphics and sounds), with a useful amount of customisation. It has a few irritating points, like specifying expected values in coins instead of bets, but these are hardly fatal. Unlike many VP programs, this one allows you to enter your own payoffs, and it handles several bonus options, so it copes well with Australian conditions. It is also possible to enter your own strategy (basically, you order the various dealt hands like "3 card royal flush" and "high pair".) One very useful feature is the so called "Huh" screen, where if you make a strategy error (these can be contrived if desired) the program will generate the exact expectation for your hand (unless you hold one or no cards; then the numbers are estimated from a table). You can download a shareware version of the software from the CV .

Stanford Wong Video Poker is a practice game and tool. It calculates correct strategy on the fly, and it appears that is can cope with any payoffs. I have not tried this software.