Electronic Poker is a beloved game that can be gambled on in casinos all over the world, or in your house on your PC, using an Internet connection. The regulations are very simple and involve the player attempting to achieve the best mixture of cards as you can in order to come away with cash. In this respect it is very similar as a regular game of poker, without the interaction with any other players. Of course, methods used in a real-life game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless here.
The game of Electronic Poker starts when the player puts credits (either tokens, tickets or cash) into the video poker machine and presses the deal button. A five card hand will be electronically ‘given out’ on the video screen.
The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and players will need to now decide which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the player would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they want, from all to none.
After the bettor has chosen which cards he wishes to retain, they should press ‘draw’, which will mean that any new cards are needed they will be handed out. The hand is now finished, with the Video Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands shown on the payout schedule.
Normally, the lowest winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money getting larger for each and every better hand. A list of common 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 last but not least royal flushes. It should be known that the payout schedule can vary from machine to machine, so that skillful gamblers are able to select the most money-making game each time.
Once the first round has played out, the player can either decide to stay 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, a few styles of the game allow the gambler a chance to double their profits, in which case another hand is played. There are also variations among specific machines, with some virtual decks including wild cards and other varying aspects to enhance playability.