Electronic Poker is a popular game that can be bet on in casinos throughout the globe, or in your house on your computer, using a web account. The regulations are very simple and consist of the player trying to achieve the highest assemblage of cards possible in order to win money. In this respect it is very similar as a classic game of poker, minus the involvement with competing players. Of course, methods used in a physical game of poker, like bluffing, will be irrelevant here.
The game of Video Poker starts when the bettor inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the machine and pushes the deal button. A five card hand will be electronically ‘dealt’ on the screen.
The Electronic Poker game also has hold buttons, and bettors should now choose which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the bettor would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any amount of cards they wish, from all to none.
After the bettor has decided on which cards she wishes to keep, the player will then press ‘deal’, at which point any fresh cards are needed they will be dealt. The game is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands shown on the payout schedule.
Normally, the lowest succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money getting larger for each better hand. A common list of winning hands begins with jacks or better, moving on to two 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 payout schedule can range from game to game, so that skillful enthusiasts are able to select the most money-making game each time.
Once the initial round has completed, the player can either decide to continue on and try to to increase their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any cash that they may have won. Further, some styles of the game give the enthusiast a chance to increase their winnings, in which instance a further game is played. There are also differences between specific machines, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other varying elements to increase playability.