Video Poker is a popular game that can be gambled on in casinos around the globe, or in your house on your personal computer, using an Internet account. The game rules are absolutely simple and involve the player trying to achieve the highest assemblage of cards possible in order to win money. In this respect it is very similar as a regular game of poker, minus the line of contact with competing players. Of course, methods used in a real-life game of poker, such as bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.
The game of Electronic Poker begins when the player inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and presses the draw button. A 5 card hand will then be electronically ‘distributed’ on the video screen.
The Electronic Poker game also has hold buttons, and bettors will need to now decide which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the enthusiast wishes to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons should 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 enthusiast has chosen which cards he or she would like to keep, the player will then press ‘draw’, which will mean that any fresh cards will be dealt if desired. The round 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.
Typically, the lowest winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money getting larger for each and every better hand. A common list of winning hands begins with jacks or better, and moves on to 2 pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It definitely goes without saying that the payout schedule can vary from game to game, so that skillful bettors are agile enough to choose the most beneficial game every instance.
After the first round has finished, the player can either choose to continue on and try to to increase their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that have been won. Further, some versions of the game give the player a chance to double their wins, in which instance another hand is played. There are also variations between specific machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying characteristics to increase playability.