Video Poker is a favored game that can be bet on in casinos around the world, or in your house on your PC, through a net account. The rules are very simple and involve the player trying to get the highest assemblage of cards achievable in order to win money. In this respect it’s much the same as a classic game of poker, apart from the interaction with any other players. Of course, tactics used in a physical game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.
The game of Electronic Poker begins when the player puts credits (either tokens, tickets or cash) into the machine and presses the draw button. A hand of five cards will be electronically ‘distributed’ on the screen.
The Electronic Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and players will need to now choose which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the bettor wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can choose to keep any amount of cards they wish, whether it is all or none.
After the enthusiast has chosen which cards she would like to retain, they should press ‘deal’, at which point any new cards will be needed they will be handed out. The hand is now finished, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands shown on the payment schedule.
Generally, the lowest succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money increasing for each better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, and moves on to two pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It is obvious that the payment schedule can vary from machine to machine, so that experienced players are agile enough to select the most beneficial ones each time.
After the initial round has completed, the player can either choose to remain on in an attempt to maximize their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that they may have won. Additionally, several styles of the game allow the gambler an opportunity to increase their winnings, in which instance another round is played. There are also differences between individual machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other differing elements to increase playability.