Video Poker is a favored game that usually will be enjoyed in casinos all over the globe, or alternatively at your house on your PC, through an Internet connection. The rules are absolutely straightforward and involve the player trying to get the highest mixture of cards achievable in order to acquire cash. In this respect it’s very similar as a regular game of poker, apart from the line of contact with any other players. Of course, techniques used in a physical game of poker, such as tricking, will be useless here.
The game of Electronic Poker starts when the enthusiast puts credits (whether it’s tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and presses the play button. A hand of 5 cards will then be "distributed" on the screen.
The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and bettors will need to now decide which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the enthusiast would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they want, whether it’s all or none.
After the player has selected which cards he or she wishes to keep, the player will then press ‘deal’, at which point any fresh cards are dealt if desired. The hand is now finished, with the Video Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the pay out schedule.
Typically, the lowest succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money getting larger for each better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, and moves on to 2 pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It definitely goes without saying that the payout schedule can vary from machine to machine, so that discerning enthusiasts are agile enough to choose the most money-making game every time.
After the first round has finished, the player can either decide to remain on and try to to increase their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any money that they may have won. Further, several styles of the game give the gambler a chance to increase their winnings, in which instance a further game is played. There are also differences among specific machines, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other varying elements to enhance playability.
