Electronic Poker is a favored game that can be gambled on in casinos throughout the world, or alternatively at your house on your PC, using a net account. The game rules are absolutely simple and involve the player trying to achieve the highest assemblage of cards possible in order to come away with cash. On this account it’s very similar as a normal game of poker, apart from the interaction with any 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 gambler puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the machine and pushes the deal button. A hand of 5 cards will then be electronically ‘handed out’ on the screen.
The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and enthusiasts will need to now decide which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the player would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they wish, from all to none.
After the gambler has decided on which cards he or she wishes to retain, they should press ‘deal’, at which point any new cards are needed they will be dealt. The hand is now completed, with the Video Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the payment schedule.
Normally, the minimum winning hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money increasing for each better hand. A list of common winning hands begins with jacks or better, and moves on to 2 pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It should be known that the payout schedule can vary from machine to machine, so that skillful players are able to select the most beneficial machine each instance.
Once the initial round has finished, the player can either choose to stay on in an attempt to maximize their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that have been won. Further, some styles of the game give the player an opportunity to increase their winnings, in which instance another hand is played. There are also differences between specific machines, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other differing elements to increase playability.