Electronic Poker is a beloved game that is able to be played in casinos all over the globe, or alternatively at your house on your PC, through a net connection. The game rules are very simple and involve the player trying to get the best assemblage of cards achievable in order to acquire money. In this respect it’s very similar as a normal game of poker, without the involvement with competing players. Of course, techniques used in a real-life game of poker, such as tricking, will be useless in Video Poker.
The game of Video Poker starts when the bettor inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and pushes the deal button. A hand of 5 cards will then be "given out" on the video screen.
The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and gamblers will need to now pick which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the player would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they wish, from all to none.
After the enthusiast has selected which cards he or she wishes to keep, they should press ‘draw’, at which point any new cards are given out if desired. The game is now completed, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the payout schedule.
Generally, the lowest winning hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money getting larger 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 last but not least royal flushes. It is obvious that the pay out schedule can range from machine to machine, so that discerning players are agile enough to choose the most profitable ones each and every instance.
Once the initial round has played out, the player can either decide to stay on and try to to maximize their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any cash that they may have won. Additionally, several styles of the game give the gambler an opportunity to double their winnings, in which situation another round is played. There are also variations between individual games, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying characteristics to increase playability.