Electronic Poker is a favored game that usually will be played in casinos around the globe, or in your house on your personal computer, through a web connection. The rules are absolutely simple and involve the player attempting to achieve the greatest mixture of cards as you can in order to come away with cash. On this account it is very similar as a classic game of poker, apart from the involvement with any other players. Of course, methods used in a real-life game of poker, like bluffing, will be irrelevant here.
The game of Video Poker starts when the enthusiast puts credits (whether it is tokens, credit slips or cash) into the machine and pushes the play button. A five card hand will then be electronically ‘distributed’ on the screen.
The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and players should now pick which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the enthusiast would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they want, from all to none.
After the bettor has selected which cards she wishes to keep, they should press ‘deal’, at which point any new cards will be needed they will be handed out. The game is now completed, with the Video Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands printed on the pay out schedule.
Normally, the lowest winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money increasing for each and every better hand. A common list of winning hands begins with jacks or better, and moves on to two pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It is obvious that the payout schedule can vary from game to game, so that discerning gamblers are agile enough to choose the most money-making machine every time.
Once the first round has finished, the player can either choose to continue on in an attempt to increase their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any money that they may have won. Further, several versions of the game allow the player a chance to double their winnings, in which instance another hand is played. There are also variations between individual games, with some virtual decks including wild cards and other differing elements to enhance playability.