Electronic Poker is a beloved game that is able to be gambled on in casinos all over the globe, or alternatively at home on your PC, using a web connection. The rules are absolutely simple and consist of the player attempting to achieve the greatest combination of cards as you can in order to win money. In this respect it is very similar as a classic game of poker, minus the involvement with any other players. Of course, tactics employed during a physical game of poker, such as bluffing, will be irrelevant in Video Poker.
The game of Electronic Poker begins when the player puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and presses the play button. A five card hand will then be electronically ‘distributed’ on the screen.
The Video Poker machine also has hold buttons, and gamblers should now choose which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the gambler would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they want, whether it is all or none.
After the bettor has chosen which cards she wishes to keep, they should press ‘deal’, which will mean that any new cards will be given out if desired. The game is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the payment schedule.
Generally, the minimum succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money increasing for each and every better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, and moves on to two pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It definitely goes without saying that the payment schedule can change from game to game, so that discerning players are agile enough to select the most money-making machine each and every time.
Once the first round has finished, the player can either decide to stay on and try to to increase their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that they may have won. Additionally, several versions of the game allow the player an opportunity to increase their profits, in which situation another hand is played. There are also differences between individual machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying elements to enhance playability.