Electronic Poker is a popular game that can be enjoyed in casinos throughout the globe, or in your house on your personal computer, through an Internet connection. The game rules are very simple and involve the player attempting to achieve the best assemblage of cards as you can in order to win money. In this respect it is very similar as a normal game of poker, apart from the interaction with any other players. Of course, techniques used in a real-life game of poker, such as bluffing, will be irrelevant here.
The game of Electronic Poker starts when the gambler inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and presses the draw button. A five card hand will be electronically ‘dealt’ on the screen.
The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and gamblers should now decide which cards to hold and which to throw away. For the cards the enthusiast would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they wish, from all to none.
After the enthusiast has chosen which cards he or she wishes to retain, they should press ‘deal’, which will mean that any new cards will be handed out if desired. The game is now completed, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands shown on the pay out schedule.
Generally, the minimum succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money growing for each and every better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to 2 pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It is obvious that the payout schedule can change from machine to machine, so that experienced bettors are able to choose the most profitable ones each and every instance.
Once the initial round has played out, the player can either decide to stay on and try to to maximize their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any credits that might been won. Further, several styles of the game give the player an opportunity to double their winnings, in which instance a further hand is played. There are also variations between individual games, with some virtual decks including wild cards and other varying characteristics to enhance playability.