Electronic Poker is a favored game that usually will be bet on in casinos throughout the world, or in your house on your PC, through an Internet account. The rules are absolutely simple and involve the player trying to achieve the highest mixture of cards possible in order to come away with cash. In this respect it is very similar as a normal game of poker, minus the interaction with competing players. Of course, techniques used in a real-life game of poker, such as bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.
The game of Electronic Poker begins when the bettor puts credits (whether it is tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and presses the play button. A hand of five cards will then be "handed out" on the screen.
The Video Poker game also has hold buttons, and enthusiasts should now decide which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the gambler would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they want, whether it’s all or none.
After the bettor has decided on which cards she wishes to retain, the player will then press ‘deal’, at which point any new cards are dealt if desired. The round is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands shown on the pay out schedule.
Typically, the lowest succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money getting larger for each better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, and moves on to 2 pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It should be known that the payout schedule can change from machine to machine, so that experienced bettors are able to choose the most profitable ones each instance.
As soon as the first round has completed, the player can either decide to continue on in an attempt to maximize their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that has been won. Additionally, several styles of the game allow the gambler an opportunity to double their wins, in which situation another round is played. There are also variations between specific machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying elements to increase playability.