Electronic Poker is a favored game that usually will be played in casinos around the globe, or alternatively at home on your computer, through a web account. The rules are very straightforward and involve the player trying to get the best combination of cards achievable in order to acquire cash. In this respect it’s very similar as a normal game of poker, without the involvement with any other players. Of course, methods used in a real-life game of poker, such as bluffing, will be irrelevant here.
The game of Video Poker starts when the player puts credits (whether it’s tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and pushes the play button. A hand of 5 cards will then be electronically ‘given out’ on the video screen.
The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and players will need to now choose which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the gambler would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they wish, whether it is all or none.
After the player has selected which cards he or she would like to keep, they should press ‘deal’, which will mean that any fresh cards will be dealt if desired. The hand is now completed, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the hand to see if it is the same as 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 prize money increasing 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, four of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It definitely goes without saying that the payment schedule can range from machine to machine, so that experienced enthusiasts are agile enough to choose the most beneficial machine each and every time.
Once the first round has completed, the player can either decide to continue on in an attempt to maximize their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any credits that might been won. Further, a few versions of the game give the gambler a chance to double their winnings, in which situation another hand is played. There are also differences among specific machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying aspects to enhance playability.