Electronic Poker is a favored game that can be gambled on in casinos all over the globe, or alternatively at home on your personal computer, using a web account. The regulations are absolutely simple and involve the player attempting to achieve the greatest assemblage of cards possible in order to acquire cash. In this respect it is much the same as a regular game of poker, minus the involvement with any other players. Of course, methods used in a real-life game of poker, such as tricking, will be useless here.
The game of Electronic Poker begins when the gambler puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and presses the draw button. A 5 card hand will be electronically ‘distributed’ on the video screen.
The Video Poker machine also has hold buttons, and gamblers will need to now choose which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the player would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they want, from all to none.
After the gambler has chosen which cards she wishes to retain, they should press ‘deal’, at which point any new cards will be handed out if desired. The round is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the pay out schedule.
Typically, the minimum succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money growing for each and every better hand. A list of common winning hands begins with jacks or better, and moves on to two pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It definitely goes without saying that the pay out schedule can change from game to game, so that knowledgeable enthusiasts are agile enough to pick the most money-making game each time.
Once the initial round has completed, the player can either decide to continue on in an attempt to increase their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that they may have won. Further, some styles of the game give the player a chance to double their wins, in which situation a further hand is played. There are also variations among individual machines, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other varying aspects to increase playability.
