Electronic Poker is a popular game that usually will be bet on in casinos around the world, or in your house on your PC, using an Internet connection. The regulations are very straightforward and involve the player attempting to achieve the greatest combination of cards possible in order to acquire cash. On this account it is much the same as a normal game of poker, apart from the involvement with other players. Of course, techniques employed during a real-life game of poker, like bluffing, will be irrelevant in Video Poker.
The game of Video Poker starts 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 be "distributed" on the screen.
The Electronic Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and bettors should now pick which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the enthusiast wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they wish, from all to none.
After the player has chosen which cards he would like to keep, they should press ‘draw’, at which point any new cards will be given out if desired. The hand is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands printed on the pay out schedule.
Normally, 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 2 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 machine to machine, so that knowledgeable bettors are able to choose the most money-making machine every time.
Once the first round has completed, the player can either decide to remain on in an attempt to increase their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that they may have won. Further, several versions of the game give the bettor a chance to increase their wins, in which case another game is played. There are also differences between individual machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other differing aspects to increase playability.
