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Electronic Poker is a beloved game that is able to be bet on in casinos throughout the world, or alternatively at your house on your personal computer, using an Internet account. The rules are absolutely simple and involve the player trying to achieve the best mixture of cards as you can in order to acquire money. On this account it is much the same as a normal game of poker, apart from the involvement with competing players. Of course, tactics used in a real-life game of poker, like tricking, will be irrelevant here.
The game of Video Poker begins when the player inserts credits (whether it is tokens, tickets or cash) into the video poker machine and pushes the play button. A hand of five cards will be "handed out" on the screen.
The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and enthusiasts will need to now choose which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the bettor would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons must 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 enthusiast has chosen which cards she wishes to keep, they should press ‘draw’, at which point any fresh cards are needed they will be handed out. The hand is now completed, with the Video Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands shown on the pay out schedule.
Typically, the minimum winning hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money getting larger for each better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to two pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It goes without saying that the pay out schedule can vary from game to game, so that skillful bettors are agile enough to choose the most profitable game each instance.
Once the first round has finished, the player can either decide to remain on and try to to increase their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that might have been won. Further, several versions of the game give the bettor a chance to double their winnings, in which instance a further round is played. There are also variations between specific games, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying characteristics to enhance playability.
