Electronic Poker is a favored game that is able to be bet on in casinos throughout the globe, or in your house on your personal computer, using a net connection. The game rules are absolutely straightforward and consist of the player attempting to get the best mixture of cards as you can in order to win money. In this respect it is very similar as a normal game of poker, apart from the interaction with any other players. Of course, tactics employed during a physical game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless here.
The game of Electronic Poker begins when the gambler puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and pushes the deal button. A five card hand will then be electronically ‘handed out’ on the video screen.
The Electronic Poker machine also has hold buttons, and enthusiasts should now choose which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the enthusiast would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they wish, whether it’s all or none.
After the gambler has chosen which cards he or she would like to keep, they should press ‘deal’, at which point any fresh cards are given out if desired. The round is now finished, with the Video Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the payment schedule.
Normally, the minimum winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money growing for each better hand. A common list of 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 payment schedule can change from game to game, so that discerning players are able to select the most beneficial machine every time.
After the first round has finished, the player can either choose to continue on in an attempt to increase their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any money that they may have won. Further, several versions of the game allow the gambler a chance to double their winnings, in which instance a further game is played. There are also differences among specific machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying aspects to enhance playability.
