Electronic Poker is a beloved game that can be gambled on in casinos around the world, or in your house on your computer, using a web account. The rules are very straightforward and involve the player attempting to achieve the greatest combination of cards possible in order to come away with cash. On this account it is very similar as a classic game of poker, minus the interaction with any other players. Of course, methods used in a real-life game of poker, like tricking, will be irrelevant here.
The game of Video Poker begins when the player puts credits (whether it’s tokens, credit slips or cash) into the machine and pushes the draw button. A five card hand will then be "given out" on the screen.
The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and enthusiasts will need to now choose which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the bettor wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they want, from all to none.
After the enthusiast has selected which cards he or she would like to retain, the player will then press ‘deal’, at which point any new cards will be handed out if desired. The hand is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the pay out schedule.
Typically, the lowest winning hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money growing for each better hand. A common list of winning hands begins with jacks or better, and moves on to two pairs, 3 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 vary from machine to machine, so that skillful gamblers are agile enough to select the most profitable machine each time.
After the initial round has completed, the player can either decide to continue on and try to to maximize their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that might been won. Additionally, several styles of the game allow the enthusiast a chance to double their profits, in which case a further hand is played. There are also variations between individual machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying aspects to increase playability.