Electronic Poker is a favored game that is able to be played in casinos across the world, or alternatively at your house on your PC, using an Internet account. The game rules are very simple and consist of the player attempting to get the highest mixture of cards as you can in order to win cash. In this respect it is much the same as a regular game of poker, minus the involvement with competing players. Of course, tactics used in a physical game of poker, like tricking, will be useless in Video Poker.
The game of Video Poker begins when the enthusiast inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the machine and presses the deal button. A 5 card hand will then be electronically ‘distributed’ on the video screen.
The Electronic Poker game also has hold buttons, and bettors should now pick which cards to hold and which to throw away. For the cards the player would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they want, whether it’s all or none.
After the enthusiast has chosen which cards he wishes to retain, they should press ‘draw’, which will mean that any new cards are needed they will be dealt. The game is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands shown on the payout schedule.
Normally, the lowest winning hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money increasing for each and every better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to two pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It is obvious that the payout schedule can change from game to game, so that discerning bettors are agile enough to pick the most profitable machine each time.
Once the first round has played out, the player can either decide to continue on and try to to maximize their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that have been won. Further, some versions of the game give the player an opportunity to increase their wins, in which case a further round is played. There are also variations between specific machines, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other varying characteristics to increase playability.
