Video Poker is a favored game that is able to be bet on in casinos around the world, or in your house on your computer, through a net connection. The regulations are very simple and involve the player attempting to achieve the highest combination of cards as you can in order to win money. In this respect it is very similar as a classic game of poker, apart from the interaction with any other players. Of course, tactics employed during a real-life game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.
The game of Video Poker starts when the player inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the machine and pushes the deal button. A five card hand will then be electronically ‘given out’ on the screen.
The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and bettors should now choose which cards to hold and which to throw away. For the cards the enthusiast 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, from all to none.
After the bettor has decided on which cards he would like to keep, they should press ‘draw’, at which point any fresh cards are handed out if desired. The game is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands shown on the payout schedule.
Normally, the lowest succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money growing for each and every better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving 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 goes without saying that the payment schedule can change from game to game, so that skillful bettors are able to select the most beneficial ones each and every instance.
As soon as the first round has completed, the player can either choose to continue on and try to to increase their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that they may have won. Further, several versions of the game allow the bettor an opportunity to increase their wins, in which situation another round is played. There are also differences among specific games, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other varying aspects to increase playability.