Electronic Poker is a popular game that can be gambled on in casinos across the world, or in your house on your home computer, through an Internet account. The rules are very straightforward and involve the player attempting to achieve the best combination of cards as you can in order to come away with cash. In this respect it’s much the same as a classic game of poker, apart from the interaction with other players. Of course, methods used in a physical game of poker, such as tricking, will be useless here.
The game of Video Poker begins when the enthusiast puts credits (either tokens, tickets or cash) into the machine and presses the draw button. A hand of five cards will be electronically ‘dealt’ on the video screen.
The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and enthusiasts should now choose which cards to hold and which to throw away. For the cards the enthusiast would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons should 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 chosen which cards she wishes to retain, they should press ‘deal’, at which point any new cards will be handed out if desired. The game is now completed, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands shown on the pay out schedule.
Typically, the lowest winning hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money growing for each and every better hand. A list of common winning hands begins with jacks or better, and moves on to two pairs, 3 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 range from game to game, so that discerning players are agile enough to pick the most money-making ones each and every instance.
Once the first round has played out, the player can either choose to continue on and try to to increase their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that has been won. Additionally, some versions of the game allow the enthusiast an opportunity to double their profits, in which case a further game is played. There are also differences between individual machines, with some virtual decks including wild cards and other differing elements to increase playability.