Electronic Poker is a favored game that usually will be wagered on in casinos around the globe, or alternatively at home on your computer, using a web connection. The game rules are very simple and involve the player attempting to achieve the best mixture of cards as you can in order to win money. On this account it is much the same as a regular game of poker, without the line of contact with any other players. Of course, methods used in a physical game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.
The game of Electronic Poker starts when the player inserts credits (whether it is tokens, credit slips or money) into the machine and presses the play button. A hand of 5 cards will then be electronically ‘handed out’ on the video screen.
The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and gamblers will need to now choose which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the player wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they wish, from all to none.
After the player has selected which cards he wishes to retain, the player will then press ‘deal’, at which point any new cards are handed out if desired. The game is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the payment schedule.
Normally, the minimum succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize 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, four of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It definitely goes without saying that the payment schedule can change from machine to machine, so that skillful gamblers are able to choose the most profitable game every instance.
After the first round has finished, the player can either decide to stay on and try to to maximize their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any credits that have been won. Further, several styles of the game allow the gambler an opportunity to double their wins, in which instance another game is played. There are also variations among individual machines, with some virtual decks including wild cards and other varying elements to increase playability.