Electronic Poker is a beloved game that is able to be enjoyed in casinos around the world, or alternatively at your house on your home computer, through an Internet connection. The regulations are absolutely straightforward and consist of the player trying to achieve the greatest assemblage of cards possible in order to win money. In this respect it is very similar as a regular game of poker, minus the interaction with competing players. Of course, methods used in a real-life game of poker, like tricking, will be useless in Video Poker.
The game of Video Poker starts when the enthusiast inserts credits (either tokens, tickets or cash) into the video poker machine and pushes the deal button. A hand of 5 cards will then be "given out" on the screen.
The Electronic Poker game also has hold buttons, and enthusiasts will need to now choose which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the bettor wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they wish, from all to none.
After the bettor has chosen which cards he or she wishes to retain, they should press ‘draw’, which will mean that any new cards are given out if desired. The hand is now completed, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands printed on the payout schedule.
Normally, the minimum 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 starts with jacks or better, moving 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 goes without saying that the payment schedule can vary from machine to machine, so that skillful bettors are agile enough to pick the most beneficial ones each and every instance.
As soon as the first round has finished, the player can either decide to stay on and try to to maximize their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any money that might have been won. Additionally, a few versions of the game give the enthusiast a chance to increase their winnings, in which situation a further round is played. There are also differences between individual games, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying elements to increase playability.