Video Poker is a beloved game that can be bet on in casinos throughout the globe, or alternatively at your house on your home computer, through a net connection. The game rules are very straightforward and consist of the player trying to achieve the highest assemblage of cards achievable in order to come away with money. On this account it is much the same as a regular game of poker, minus the involvement with any other players. Of course, methods used in a real-life game of poker, such as tricking, will be useless here.
The game of Video Poker starts when the bettor puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and pushes the deal button. A hand of 5 cards will be "dealt" on the screen.
The Electronic Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and players will need to now pick which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the bettor would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can choose to keep any amount of cards they want, whether it’s all or none.
After the player has selected which cards she would like to keep, they should press ‘deal’, at which point any new cards will be handed out if desired. The game is now completed, with the Video Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands shown on the pay out schedule.
Typically, the lowest succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money increasing for each and every better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, and moves on to 2 pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It should be known that the payout schedule can change from game to game, so that discerning players are agile enough to pick the most profitable machine each and every instance.
As soon as the first round has finished, the player can either decide to remain on and try to to maximize their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any credits that they may have won. Further, a few styles of the game give the player an opportunity to double their wins, in which instance another game is played. There are also variations between specific machines, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other differing elements to increase playability.