Video Poker is a popular game that usually will be bet on in casinos throughout the world, or in your house on your personal computer, through an Internet account. The rules are absolutely straightforward and involve the player trying to achieve the highest assemblage of cards as you can in order to come away with money. On this account it’s much the same as a regular game of poker, minus the line of contact with competing players. Of course, tactics used in a physical game of poker, like tricking, will be useless here.
The game of Video Poker starts when the enthusiast inserts credits (either tokens, tickets or money) into the video poker machine and pushes the deal button. A hand of 5 cards will be "handed out" on the video screen.
The Electronic Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and players will need to now pick which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the player wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they wish, whether it is all or none.
After the enthusiast has selected which cards she wishes to keep, the player will then press ‘draw’, which will mean that any new cards will be needed they will be handed out. The hand is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands printed on the payout schedule.
Generally, the lowest succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money getting larger for each better hand. A list of common winning hands begins with jacks or better, moving on to two pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It is obvious that the pay out schedule can change from machine to machine, so that discerning bettors are agile enough to select the most money-making ones each time.
After the initial round has finished, the player can either decide to continue on and try to to increase their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that might have been won. Further, a few styles of the game give the enthusiast a chance to increase their profits, in which instance a further round is played. There are also variations among individual machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying characteristics to increase playability.
