Electronic Poker is a favored game that is able to be bet on in casinos throughout the globe, or in your house on your PC, through a net connection. The rules are very straightforward and consist of the player trying to achieve the highest assemblage of cards as you can in order to acquire money. In this respect it is much the same as a normal game of poker, apart from the interaction with any other players. Of course, tactics employed during a physical game of poker, such as bluffing, will be useless here.
The game of Electronic Poker begins when the player inserts credits (whether it is tokens, tickets or cash) into the machine and presses the deal button. A five card hand will be electronically ‘distributed’ on the screen.
The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and bettors will need to now decide which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the gambler would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to 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 decided on which cards she wishes to keep, they should press ‘draw’, at which point any fresh cards are given out if desired. The round is now completed, with the Video Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands printed on the payment schedule.
Generally, the minimum succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money growing for each better hand. A common list of winning hands begins with jacks or better, moving on to two 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 payment schedule can range from game to game, so that discerning gamblers are able to choose the most profitable game every instance.
After the first round has completed, the player can either choose to stay on in an attempt to maximize their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any credits that they may have won. Further, a few styles of the game allow the player a chance to double their profits, in which instance a further game is played. There are also variations between specific games, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other differing elements to increase playability.