Electronic Poker is a favored game that can be gambled on in casinos around the world, or alternatively at home on your computer, using an Internet connection. The rules are absolutely straightforward and involve the player attempting to achieve the highest mixture of cards achievable in order to come away with cash. On this account it’s very similar as a regular game of poker, apart from 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 Electronic Poker begins when the bettor inserts credits (whether it is tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and presses the play button. A 5 card hand will then be "handed out" on the video screen.
The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and enthusiasts will need to now choose which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the bettor wishes to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they wish, from all to none.
After the enthusiast has selected which cards he wishes to keep, the player will then press ‘deal’, at which point any fresh cards will be needed they will be given out. The hand is now finished, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the pay out schedule.
Generally, the minimum succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money increasing for each better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, and moves on to 2 pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It is obvious that the payment schedule can change from game to game, so that discerning players are able to pick the most profitable machine each time.
As soon as the first round has played out, the player can either choose to stay on and try to to increase their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that they may have won. Further, some versions of the game give the gambler a chance to double their wins, in which situation a further round is played. There are also differences between individual machines, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other varying aspects to increase playability.