Video Poker is a beloved game that is able to be played in casinos throughout the globe, or in your house on your PC, using a web connection. The game rules are absolutely simple and involve the player trying to achieve the highest assemblage of cards achievable in order to win cash. On this account it is very similar as a regular game of poker, without 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 starts when the gambler inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and pushes the draw button. A five card hand will be electronically ‘handed out’ on the video screen.
The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and bettors should now decide which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the bettor 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 gambler has chosen which cards he would like to keep, they should press ‘draw’, which will mean that any new cards are needed they will be dealt. The round is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands printed on the pay out schedule.
Typically, the minimum 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 2 pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It should be known that the pay out schedule can range from machine to machine, so that knowledgeable gamblers are able to choose the most profitable ones each and every instance.
As soon as the initial round has completed, the player can either decide to continue on and try to to increase their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any credits that they may have won. Additionally, some styles of the game allow the bettor a chance to double their winnings, in which instance another round is played. There are also variations among individual games, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying characteristics to increase playability.