Electronic Poker is a popular game that is able to be enjoyed in casinos across the world, or in your house on your home computer, using a web account. The regulations are absolutely straightforward and consist of the player attempting to get the highest mixture of cards possible in order to win money. In this respect it’s very similar as a normal game of poker, without the involvement with any other players. Of course, tactics employed during a real-life game of poker, such as bluffing, will be irrelevant in Video Poker.
The game of Video Poker starts when the enthusiast puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and presses the draw button. A five card hand will be "handed out" on the video screen.
The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and bettors should now pick which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the bettor would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they wish, from all to none.
After the bettor has decided on which cards he wishes to retain, the player will then press ‘draw’, at which point any new cards are needed they will be handed out. The round is now completed, with the Video Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands printed on the pay out schedule.
Normally, the minimum winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money increasing for each better hand. A common list of winning hands begins 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 should be known that the payment schedule can change from machine to machine, so that knowledgeable players are agile enough to select the most money-making ones each instance.
Once the first round has played out, the player can either decide to continue on and try to to increase their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that might have been won. Further, some versions of the game give the player a chance to increase their winnings, in which case another hand is played. There are also differences between specific machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying elements to enhance playability.