Electronic Poker is a favored game that usually will be enjoyed in casinos all over the globe, or alternatively at your house on your personal computer, using an Internet account. The rules are very straightforward and involve the player trying to get the best assemblage of cards achievable in order to acquire money. In this respect it is much the same as a classic game of poker, apart from the involvement with any other players. Of course, methods used in a physical game of poker, like tricking, will be useless in Video Poker.
The game of Video Poker begins when the gambler puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and presses the play button. A hand of five cards will then be electronically ‘distributed’ on the video screen.
The Video Poker game also has hold buttons, and enthusiasts should now decide which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the enthusiast would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they wish, whether it’s all or none.
After the player has decided on which cards he or she wishes to retain, the player will then press ‘draw’, which will mean that any fresh cards will be dealt if desired. The game is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands shown on the pay out schedule.
Generally, the lowest succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money growing for each better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to two pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It goes without saying that the pay out schedule can change from game to game, so that experienced bettors are agile enough to pick the most beneficial ones each instance.
Once the initial round has completed, the player can either choose to continue on and try to to increase their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that might been won. Further, some versions of the game give the enthusiast an opportunity to increase their wins, in which instance another hand is played. There are also differences between specific games, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other varying elements to increase playability.