Video Poker is a popular game that can be bet on in casinos all over the world, or alternatively at home on your PC, using an Internet account. The regulations are very straightforward and involve the player attempting to achieve the highest mixture of cards as you can in order to win money. On this account it is very similar as a normal game of poker, minus the involvement with any other players. Of course, techniques used in a real-life game of poker, such as bluffing, will be useless here.
The game of Electronic Poker begins when the gambler puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and presses the play button. A five card hand will be electronically ‘distributed’ on the video screen.
The Video Poker machine also has hold buttons, and gamblers will need to now choose which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the player would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they want, from all to none.
After the enthusiast has selected which cards he or she would like to keep, the player will then press ‘draw’, at which point any new cards are needed they will be dealt. The hand is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the pay out schedule.
Normally, the minimum winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money increasing for each better hand. A common list of winning hands begins with jacks or better, and moves on to two pairs, 3 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 payment schedule can change from game to game, so that experienced enthusiasts are agile enough to pick the most money-making machine each time.
As soon as the initial round has completed, the player can either decide to continue on and try to to increase their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that they may have won. Further, a few styles of the game allow the player a chance to double their winnings, in which instance a further round is played. There are also variations between specific machines, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other varying aspects to increase playability.