Electronic Poker is a favored game that can be bet on in casinos throughout the world, or in your house on your personal computer, through a web account. The rules are very simple and involve the player trying to get the greatest combination of cards possible in order to acquire money. In this respect it’s very similar as a regular game of poker, minus the interaction with other players. Of course, tactics used in a real-life game of poker, such as bluffing, will be irrelevant here.
The game of Electronic Poker starts when the enthusiast puts credits (whether it’s tokens, credit slips or money) into the machine and pushes the deal button. A 5 card hand will then be electronically ‘distributed’ on the video screen.
The Electronic Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and enthusiasts will need to now pick which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the player 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 wish, whether it’s all or none.
After the bettor has selected which cards he or she would like to keep, the player will then press ‘draw’, which will mean that any fresh cards are needed they will be given out. The hand is now finished, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands printed on the pay out schedule.
Normally, the lowest winning hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money increasing for each 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, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It goes without saying that the payout schedule can change from machine to machine, so that skillful players are agile enough to choose the most money-making machine each instance.
After the first round has finished, the player can either decide to stay on in an attempt to maximize their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any money that they may have won. Additionally, some versions of the game allow the bettor an opportunity to double their winnings, in which case a further game is played. There are also differences among specific games, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other differing aspects to increase playability.