Electronic Poker is a beloved game that usually will be played in casinos around the world, or in your house on your computer, using a net connection. The game rules are absolutely straightforward and involve the player trying to get the best assemblage of cards achievable in order to win cash. In this respect it is very similar as a classic game of poker, without the involvement with competing players. Of course, tactics employed during a real-life game of poker, such as bluffing, will be useless here.
The game of Video Poker begins when the player inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the machine and pushes the deal button. A 5 card hand will be electronically ‘handed out’ on the video screen.
The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and gamblers should now decide which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the gambler wishes to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they want, whether it is all or none.
After the gambler has selected which cards he or she wishes to retain, they should press ‘deal’, which will mean that any new cards are needed they will be given out. The round is now finished, with the Video Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands shown on the pay out schedule.
Normally, the lowest winning hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money increasing for each better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to two pairs, 3 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 pay out schedule can vary from machine to machine, so that skillful enthusiasts are agile enough to select the most beneficial machine each and every instance.
As soon as the first round has finished, the player can either choose to stay on and try to to maximize their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any money that has been won. Further, a few versions of the game give the enthusiast a chance to increase their winnings, in which situation a further round is played. There are also differences among specific machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other differing elements to enhance playability.
