Electronic Poker is a favored game that is able to be played in casinos across the world, or in your house on your home computer, through a web connection. The rules are absolutely simple and involve the player trying to get the greatest combination of cards as you can in order to come away with cash. In this respect it’s very similar as a classic game of poker, minus the interaction with any other players. Of course, techniques used in a real-life game of poker, like tricking, 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 deal button. A hand of 5 cards will then be electronically ‘dealt’ on the screen.
The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and gamblers will need to now choose which cards to hold and which to throw away. For the cards the bettor would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they want, whether it is all or none.
After the gambler has chosen which cards she would like to keep, the player will then press ‘draw’, at which point any fresh cards are given out if desired. The round is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the pay out schedule.
Normally, the lowest succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money increasing for each better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, and moves on to 2 pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It should be known that the payout schedule can range from game to game, so that discerning players are able to select the most money-making machine each time.
As soon as the first round has finished, the player can either choose to remain on in an attempt to increase their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that might have been won. Additionally, several styles of the game allow the gambler a chance to increase their profits, in which instance a further hand is played. There are also differences between specific games, with some virtual decks including wild cards and other varying aspects to increase playability.