Electronic Poker is a favored game that can be played in casinos around the world, or in your house on your PC, using an Internet connection. The rules are absolutely straightforward and involve the player attempting to achieve the best mixture of cards possible in order to acquire cash. On this account it’s much the same as a regular game of poker, apart from the interaction with any other players. Of course, methods used in a real-life game of poker, such as bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.
The game of Video Poker starts when the gambler inserts credits (whether it’s tokens, credit slips or money) into the machine and presses the play button. A 5 card hand will then be electronically ‘dealt’ on the video screen.
The Electronic Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and enthusiasts will need to now pick which cards to hold and which to throw away. For the cards the player would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any amount of cards they want, whether it’s all or none.
After the bettor has selected which cards she would like to keep, they should press ‘draw’, which will mean that any fresh cards are handed out if desired. The game is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands shown on the payment schedule.
Typically, the lowest winning hand on a Video 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, and moves on to two pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It definitely goes without saying that the payment schedule can change from machine to machine, so that skillful enthusiasts are agile enough to choose the most beneficial machine each and every time.
After the first round has finished, the player can either choose to stay on in an attempt to increase their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any money that has been won. Further, a few styles of the game give the enthusiast an opportunity to increase their wins, in which case another hand is played. There are also differences between individual machines, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other varying elements to increase playability.