Video Poker is a popular game that can be bet on in casinos all over the world, or in your house on your PC, using an Internet account. The regulations are very simple and consist of the player trying to achieve the greatest mixture of cards possible in order to win cash. In this respect it’s much the same as a normal game of poker, apart from the involvement with any other players. Of course, tactics employed during a real-life game of poker, such as tricking, will be useless in Video Poker.
The game of Electronic Poker starts when the gambler puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the machine and presses the play button. A five card hand will then be "distributed" on the screen.
The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and enthusiasts will need to now pick which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the gambler would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they wish, whether it’s all or none.
After the gambler has chosen which cards he would like to retain, the player will then press ‘draw’, which will mean that any fresh cards are needed they will be given out. The hand is now completed, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the pay out schedule.
Typically, the minimum succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money getting larger for each and every better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, and moves on to two pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It should be known that the payout schedule can vary from game to game, so that experienced gamblers are able to choose the most profitable machine each time.
After the first round has played out, the player can either choose to continue on and try to to increase their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any cash that they may have won. Additionally, some versions of the game give the enthusiast a chance to increase their wins, in which instance a further round is played. There are also variations between specific machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying aspects to increase playability.