Electronic Poker is a favored game that is able to be gambled on in casinos all over the globe, or in your house on your home computer, using a web account. The regulations are very straightforward and consist of the player trying to get the best combination of cards possible in order to win cash. On this account it’s very similar as a normal game of poker, without the involvement with competing players. Of course, methods used in a physical game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless here.
The game of Video Poker starts when the gambler inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and presses the deal button. A hand of five cards will be "dealt" on the screen.
The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and enthusiasts will need to now decide which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the enthusiast would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they wish, whether it’s all or none.
After the player has selected which cards he or she would like to keep, they should press ‘draw’, which will mean that any fresh cards will be needed they will be handed out. The round is now finished, 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 an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money increasing for each better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to 2 pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It is obvious that the payout schedule can vary from machine to machine, so that skillful gamblers are able to choose the most beneficial ones every time.
After the initial round has finished, the player can either choose to continue on in an attempt to maximize their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that they may have won. Further, several versions of the game give the player an opportunity to increase their wins, in which situation another round is played. There are also variations between individual games, with some virtual decks including wild cards and other differing characteristics to increase playability.