Electronic Poker is a beloved game that can be played in casinos all over the world, or in your house on your personal computer, using a net account. The rules are absolutely straightforward and consist of the player trying to get the best mixture of cards achievable in order to win cash. On this account it is much the same as a regular game of poker, minus the involvement with competing players. Of course, methods used in a physical game of poker, such as bluffing, will be irrelevant in Video Poker.
The game of Video Poker begins when the gambler inserts credits (whether it’s tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and pushes the play button. A 5 card hand will then be electronically ‘given out’ on the screen.
The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and gamblers should now pick which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the bettor would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they wish, whether it is all or none.
After the player has chosen which cards he wishes to keep, they should press ‘deal’, which will mean that any new cards will be needed they will be given out. The game is now finished, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the pay out schedule.
Typically, the minimum succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money growing for each better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to 2 pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It definitely goes without saying that the payment schedule can vary from game to game, so that skillful bettors are able to pick the most profitable machine each and every time.
Once the first round has played out, the player can either decide to stay on and try to to increase their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that has been won. Further, several styles of the game give the gambler a chance to increase their winnings, in which situation a further round is played. There are also variations between individual machines, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other differing elements to increase playability.