Video Poker is a favored game that is able to be played in casinos around the world, or alternatively at your house on your computer, through a net account. The game rules are very straightforward and involve the player trying to achieve the greatest assemblage of cards possible in order to come away with cash. In this respect it is much the same as a classic game of poker, without the line of contact with competing players. Of course, techniques used in a real-life game of poker, like tricking, will be irrelevant in Video Poker.
The game of Video Poker begins when the player inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the machine and presses the draw button. A hand of five cards will then be "distributed" on the screen.
The Electronic Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and bettors should now choose which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the bettor wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they want, from all to none.
After the gambler has selected which cards he or she wishes to keep, they should press ‘deal’, which will mean that any new cards will be handed out if desired. The game is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands printed on the pay out schedule.
Normally, the lowest winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money increasing for each better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to 2 pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It is obvious that the payout schedule can range from game to game, so that knowledgeable enthusiasts are able to choose the most money-making game each time.
As soon as the first round has completed, the player can either choose to continue on and try to to increase their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that has been won. Further, a few styles of the game allow the bettor a chance to double their profits, in which situation a further round is played. There are also differences between specific games, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other differing characteristics to increase playability.
