Video Poker is a beloved game that is able to be gambled on in casinos across the globe, or in your house on your personal computer, through a web account. The game rules are absolutely straightforward and involve the player trying to get the greatest assemblage of cards achievable in order to acquire money. In this respect it is much the same as a regular game of poker, without the involvement with other players. Of course, methods used in a real-life game of poker, such as tricking, will be irrelevant here.
The game of Electronic Poker begins when the player puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and pushes the draw button. A hand of 5 cards will then be "dealt" on the video screen.
The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and players should now pick which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the enthusiast would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they wish, from all to none.
After the enthusiast has selected which cards he would like to keep, they should press ‘deal’, which will mean that any new cards are handed out if desired. The hand is now completed, with the Video Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the pay out schedule.
Typically, the minimum winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money growing for each and every better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to 2 pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It is obvious that the payout schedule can range from machine to machine, so that knowledgeable gamblers are agile enough to choose the most beneficial game each time.
Once the first round has finished, the player can either decide to remain on in an attempt to maximize their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that they may have won. Further, some styles of the game allow the gambler an opportunity to double their winnings, in which situation a further game is played. There are also variations among specific games, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other differing aspects to enhance playability.