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Electronic Poker is a popular game that can be gambled on in casinos throughout the globe, or in your house on your home computer, through an Internet connection. The game rules are very straightforward and consist of the player trying to achieve the best mixture of cards achievable in order to win money. On this account it’s very similar as a normal game of poker, without the involvement with competing players. Of course, techniques used in a real-life game of poker, such as tricking, will be useless in Video Poker.
The game of Video Poker starts when the player inserts credits (either tokens, tickets or money) into the video poker machine and presses the draw button. A hand of five cards will be electronically ‘handed out’ on the video screen.
The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and enthusiasts should now decide which cards to hold and which to throw away. For the cards the enthusiast would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons must 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 wishes to retain, they should press ‘draw’, at which point any new cards are needed they will be dealt. The hand is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands shown 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 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 definitely goes without saying that the pay out schedule can change from machine to machine, so that skillful gamblers are able to pick the most money-making game every instance.
Once the initial round has completed, the player can either choose to remain on in an attempt to increase their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money 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 differences between individual machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying elements to increase playability.
