Video Poker is a favored game that can be enjoyed in casinos around the world, or alternatively at home on your personal computer, using a net connection. The game rules are absolutely simple and involve the player trying to achieve the greatest mixture of cards as you can in order to acquire money. In this respect it is very similar as a classic game of poker, without the involvement with other players. Of course, techniques employed during a physical game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.
The game of Video Poker starts when the enthusiast inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the machine and presses the deal button. A 5 card hand will be "handed out" on the screen.
The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and enthusiasts will need to now decide which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the gambler wishes to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons should 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 enthusiast has selected which cards she would like to keep, they should press ‘draw’, which will mean that any fresh cards are needed they will be given out. The round is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands printed on the pay out schedule.
Normally, the lowest winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money growing for each 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, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It definitely goes without saying that the payment schedule can vary from machine to machine, so that skillful enthusiasts are agile enough to choose the most money-making game each time.
As soon as the first round has completed, the player can either choose to remain on and try to to increase their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any credits that they may have won. Additionally, some styles of the game give the bettor an opportunity to double their profits, in which situation another round is played. There are also differences among specific machines, with some virtual decks including wild cards and other differing aspects to enhance playability.