Electronic Poker is a favored game that is able to be bet on in casinos across the globe, or in your house on your personal computer, through an Internet account. The regulations are very simple and consist of the player trying to achieve the highest combination of cards possible in order to come away with money. In this respect it’s much the same as a normal game of poker, minus the line of contact with any other players. Of course, tactics used in a real-life game of poker, like tricking, will be useless here.
The game of Video Poker begins when the player puts credits (whether it is tokens, credit slips or cash) into the machine and pushes the play button. A hand of 5 cards will then 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 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 wish, whether it is all or none.
After the player has chosen which cards she wishes to retain, the player will then press ‘deal’, at which point any new cards will be dealt if desired. The hand is now finished, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands shown on the pay out schedule.
Typically, the lowest succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money growing for each better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, and moves on to 2 pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It goes without saying that the payment schedule can change from game to game, so that knowledgeable gamblers are agile enough to pick the most beneficial machine every time.
Once the first round has finished, the player can either choose to remain on and try to to maximize their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any cash that might have been won. Additionally, some versions of the game give the bettor an opportunity to increase their profits, in which instance another hand is played. There are also differences between individual machines, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other varying characteristics to increase playability.