Video Poker is a favored game that is able to be bet on in casinos around the world, or alternatively at home on your personal computer, through an Internet account. The rules are very straightforward and consist of the player trying to get the best mixture of cards possible in order to come away with money. In this respect it’s much the same as a normal game of poker, minus the interaction 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 starts when the enthusiast inserts credits (whether it’s tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and pushes the play button. A hand of five cards will be "handed out" on the screen.
The Electronic Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and enthusiasts will need to now decide which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the gambler would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they want, from all to none.
After the bettor has chosen which cards he wishes to keep, they should press ‘draw’, which will mean that any fresh cards will be handed out if desired. The round is now finished, with the Video Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands printed on the pay out schedule.
Generally, the minimum succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money increasing for each better hand. A list of common winning hands begins with jacks or better, and moves on to two pairs, three 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 skillful enthusiasts are agile enough to select the most money-making ones each and every instance.
After the initial round has completed, the player can either decide to remain on in an attempt to increase their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any money that they may have won. Further, some styles of the game give the enthusiast a chance to double their profits, in which case another round is played. There are also variations among individual games, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other varying elements to enhance playability.