Electronic Poker is a favored game that can be bet on in casinos around the world, or alternatively at home on your personal computer, through an Internet connection. The game rules are absolutely simple and consist of the player attempting to achieve the greatest assemblage of cards as you can in order to win cash. In this respect it is much the same as a normal game of poker, without the interaction with any other players. Of course, techniques employed during a real-life game of poker, such as bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.
The game of Video Poker begins when the gambler inserts credits (whether it’s tokens, tickets or money) into the video poker machine and pushes the play button. A hand of 5 cards will be electronically ‘dealt’ on the video screen.
The Electronic Poker game also has hold buttons, and gamblers should now choose which cards to hold and which to throw away. For the cards the enthusiast would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons need to 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 enthusiast has selected which cards he would like to retain, the player will then press ‘deal’, which will mean that any new cards will be needed they will be dealt. The game is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands shown on the pay out schedule.
Normally, the minimum succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money growing for each better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to two pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It definitely goes without saying that the payout schedule can vary from game to game, so that discerning enthusiasts are agile enough to pick the most profitable machine every time.
Once the initial round has finished, the player can either decide to remain on in an attempt to maximize their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any money that they may have won. Additionally, some styles of the game allow the enthusiast a chance to double their profits, in which instance a further game is played. There are also differences among individual machines, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other varying aspects to increase playability.