Electronic Poker is a beloved game that is able to be gambled on in casinos across the world, or alternatively at home on your PC, through an Internet connection. The rules are very simple and consist of the player attempting to get the highest combination of cards achievable in order to come away with money. On this account it is very similar as a regular game of poker, without the interaction with any other players. Of course, techniques employed during a physical game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless here.
The game of Video Poker starts when the player puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and presses the play button. A five card hand will be "dealt" on the screen.
The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and players will need to now pick which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the bettor would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they wish, from all to none.
After the bettor has chosen which cards he wishes to retain, the player will then press ‘draw’, which will mean that any new cards will be dealt if desired. The hand is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands shown on the payout schedule.
Typically, the lowest succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award 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 finally royal flushes. It is obvious that the payment schedule can vary from machine to machine, so that experienced gamblers are agile enough to select the most beneficial game each and every instance.
As soon as the first round has played out, the player can either choose to stay on and try to to maximize their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that has been won. Additionally, some versions of the game give the bettor a chance to increase their winnings, in which instance another hand is played. There are also variations among individual machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other differing elements to enhance playability.