Electronic Poker is a favored game that is able to be enjoyed in casinos all over the globe, or alternatively at home on your PC, through a web connection. The rules are absolutely simple and consist of the player trying to achieve the best assemblage of cards possible in order to win money. On this account it is much the same as a classic game of poker, minus the interaction with any other players. Of course, tactics employed during a physical game of poker, like tricking, will be useless here.
The game of Electronic Poker begins when the gambler inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and pushes the deal button. A 5 card hand will then be "distributed" on the video screen.
The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and players should now decide which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the player would like 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, whether it is all or none.
After the gambler has chosen which cards he or she would like to keep, they should press ‘deal’, at which point any fresh cards are dealt if desired. The round is now completed, with the Video Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the payout schedule.
Normally, the lowest winning hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money increasing for each and every better hand. A common list of winning hands begins with jacks or better, and moves on to 2 pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It definitely goes without saying that the payout schedule can range from game to game, so that knowledgeable players are able to pick the most money-making ones each instance.
After the first round has finished, the player can either decide to continue on in an attempt to increase their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that have been won. Further, some versions of the game give the player an opportunity to increase their profits, in which case another game is played. There are also differences between individual games, with some virtual decks including wild cards and other differing characteristics to increase playability.