Electronic Poker is a beloved game that usually will be enjoyed in casinos all over the globe, or in your house on your home computer, using a net account. The rules are very straightforward and consist of the player trying to achieve the highest combination of cards achievable in order to acquire cash. In this respect it’s much the same as a normal game of poker, without the interaction with any other players. Of course, techniques employed during a real-life game of poker, like tricking, will be irrelevant here.
The game of Electronic Poker starts when the enthusiast puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the machine and pushes the draw button. A 5 card hand will then be electronically ‘dealt’ on the video screen.
The Video Poker machine also has hold buttons, and enthusiasts should now decide which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the bettor wishes to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they want, whether it’s all or none.
After the gambler has chosen which cards he would like to keep, they should press ‘deal’, at which point any fresh cards will be needed they will be dealt. The game is now finished, with the Video Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands printed on the payment schedule.
Generally, the lowest succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money increasing for each better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to 2 pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It goes without saying that the payout schedule can range from machine to machine, so that skillful gamblers are agile enough to choose the most money-making machine each and every instance.
Once the first round has finished, the player can either choose to continue on and try to to increase their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any money that they may have won. Further, several versions of the game give the bettor an opportunity to double their profits, in which situation another hand is played. There are also differences among individual machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other differing aspects to increase playability.