Video Poker is a beloved game that can be bet on in casinos around the globe, or alternatively at home on your home computer, through an Internet account. The game rules are very straightforward and involve the player trying to achieve the best combination of cards achievable in order to acquire cash. On this account it’s very similar as a regular game of poker, minus the involvement with any other players. Of course, techniques employed during a physical game of poker, such as tricking, will be useless here.
The game of Electronic Poker starts when the player puts credits (whether it is tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and presses the play button. A hand of five cards will then be electronically ‘handed out’ on the video screen.
The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and gamblers will need to now choose which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the gambler would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they wish, from all to none.
After the enthusiast has selected which cards he wishes to keep, they should press ‘deal’, at which point any new cards are given out if desired. The round is now finished, with the Video Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands shown on the payout schedule.
Typically, the lowest winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money growing for each better hand. A list of common winning hands begins with jacks or better, and moves on to 2 pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It goes without saying that the payment schedule can vary from game to game, so that experienced players are agile enough to choose the most money-making ones each and every instance.
As soon as the initial round has played out, the player can either choose to continue on and try to to maximize their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that they may have won. Additionally, some styles of the game give the player a chance to increase their winnings, in which case a further round is played. There are also variations between individual games, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying elements to enhance playability.
