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Electronic Poker is a favored game that can be wagered on in casinos across the globe, or alternatively at your house on your PC, through a net connection. The rules are absolutely straightforward and involve the player trying to achieve the highest combination of cards possible in order to come away with cash. On this account it is much the same as a regular game of poker, minus the line of contact with other players. Of course, techniques used in a real-life game of poker, such as bluffing, will be irrelevant in Video Poker.
The game of Video Poker starts when the player puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and presses the play button. A five card hand will then be electronically ‘dealt’ on the screen.
The Video Poker machine also has hold buttons, and enthusiasts will need to now decide which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the enthusiast would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they want, from all to none.
After the enthusiast has selected which cards he or she would like to retain, they should press ‘deal’, which will mean that any new cards will be needed they will be dealt. The game is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the payment schedule.
Generally, the minimum succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money getting larger for each better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, and moves on to two pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It goes without saying that the payout schedule can change from game to game, so that knowledgeable bettors are able to select the most beneficial machine each and every instance.
Once the first round has completed, the player can either choose to continue on and try to to maximize their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that might have been won. Further, several versions of the game allow the bettor an opportunity to double their winnings, in which case a further round is played. There are also variations among individual games, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other varying elements to enhance playability.
