Electronic Poker is a popular game that can be enjoyed in casinos all over the world, or in your house on your home computer, using a web connection. The rules are very simple and consist of the player attempting to get the highest combination of cards achievable in order to win money. In this respect it is very similar as a classic game of poker, apart from the involvement with any other players. Of course, tactics employed during a physical game of poker, such as bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.
The game of Video Poker begins when the gambler inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and presses the deal button. A hand of five cards will be electronically ‘given out’ on the video screen.
The Video Poker machine also has hold buttons, and gamblers should now pick which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the bettor wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they wish, whether it’s all or none.
After the player has chosen which cards he would like to keep, they should press ‘draw’, which will mean that any new cards will be needed they will be handed out. The hand is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the pay out schedule.
Normally, the minimum succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award 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, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It should be known that the payment schedule can range from machine to machine, so that experienced bettors are agile enough to choose the most beneficial machine every instance.
As soon as the first round has completed, the player can either choose to stay on and try to to increase their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that they may have won. Further, several versions of the game allow the player a chance to increase their profits, in which instance another hand is played. There are also variations among individual games, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other differing characteristics to enhance playability.
