Electronic Poker is a popular game that is able to be wagered on in casinos all over the globe, or in your house on your PC, through a web account. The game rules are very straightforward and consist of the player trying to achieve the best assemblage of cards possible in order to come away with cash. On this account it’s very similar as a classic 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 in Video Poker.
The game of Video Poker starts when the bettor puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the machine and presses the play button. A hand of five cards will be electronically ‘dealt’ on the screen.
The Electronic Poker game also has hold buttons, and players should now pick which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the enthusiast wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they wish, whether it is all or none.
After the player has selected which cards he or she would like to keep, the player will then press ‘deal’, at which point any new cards will be dealt if desired. The round is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands printed on the payout schedule.
Typically, the lowest winning hand on a Video 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 starts with jacks or better, and moves 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 is obvious that the payment schedule can range from machine to machine, so that knowledgeable players are able to pick the most money-making game each and every time.
As soon as the initial round has played out, the player can either decide to stay on in an attempt to increase their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any money that they may have won. Further, some styles of the game allow the player a chance to double their wins, in which case a further hand is played. There are also differences among individual machines, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other differing characteristics to enhance playability.