Video Poker is a popular game that can be gambled on in casinos across the globe, or in your house on your home computer, through a net connection. The game rules are absolutely straightforward and involve the player attempting to achieve the highest mixture of cards achievable in order to acquire cash. In this respect it’s much the same as a classic game of poker, minus the interaction with any other players. Of course, tactics used in a physical game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.
The game of Electronic Poker starts when the enthusiast inserts credits (either tokens, tickets or money) into the machine and pushes the draw button. A hand of 5 cards will be "distributed" on the video screen.
The Electronic Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and gamblers should now choose which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the player would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they wish, whether it is all or none.
After the enthusiast has chosen which cards he would like to keep, they should press ‘deal’, which will mean that any fresh cards are dealt if desired. The hand is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the payment schedule.
Normally, the lowest succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money growing for each better hand. A list of common winning hands begins with jacks or better, and moves on to 2 pairs, 3 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 game to game, so that knowledgeable enthusiasts are agile enough to choose the most money-making machine each and every instance.
As soon as the initial round has completed, the player can either decide to remain on in an attempt to increase their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that might have been won. Further, several styles of the game allow the gambler an opportunity to double their wins, in which case another round is played. There are also differences between individual machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other differing elements to enhance playability.
