Electronic Poker is a popular game that can be enjoyed in casinos across the world, or in your house on your PC, using a net connection. The game rules are very straightforward and consist of the player attempting to achieve the highest combination of cards as you can in order to acquire money. In this respect it is very similar as a regular game of poker, apart from the involvement with any other players. Of course, methods employed during a real-life game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.
The game of Electronic Poker starts when the bettor inserts credits (whether it is tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and presses the draw button. A 5 card hand will be "given out" on the screen.
The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and enthusiasts will need to now pick which cards to hold and which to throw away. For the cards the enthusiast wishes to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any amount of cards they want, from all to none.
After the player has selected which cards she wishes to retain, the player will then press ‘deal’, which will mean that any fresh cards will be dealt if desired. The round is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands printed on the payment schedule.
Normally, the lowest winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money growing 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, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It is obvious that the pay out schedule can vary from game to game, so that knowledgeable players are able to select the most money-making ones each and every instance.
Once the first round has completed, the player can either choose to remain on in an attempt to increase their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any money that has been won. Additionally, some versions of the game allow the enthusiast a chance to double their profits, in which situation a further round is played. There are also variations between specific games, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying aspects to enhance playability.
