Video Poker is a beloved game that usually will be enjoyed in casinos throughout the world, or in your house on your computer, using a web connection. The rules are very simple and consist of the player trying to get the best combination of cards achievable in order to acquire money. In this respect it is much the same as a normal game of poker, minus the interaction with other players. Of course, methods used in a real-life game of poker, like tricking, will be useless here.
The game of Electronic Poker starts when the gambler puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the machine and presses the deal button. A five card hand will be "handed out" on the video screen.
The Electronic Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and gamblers will need to now decide which cards to hold and which to throw away. For the cards the gambler would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they want, from all to none.
After the player has chosen which cards he or she wishes to keep, they should press ‘deal’, at which point any fresh cards are needed they will be handed out. The hand is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands shown on the pay out schedule.
Normally, the minimum succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money increasing for each and every better hand. A common list of winning hands begins with jacks or better, moving on to 2 pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It is obvious that the payout schedule can change from machine to machine, so that knowledgeable enthusiasts are agile enough to choose the most money-making game each and every instance.
After the first round has played out, the player can either decide to continue on and try to to maximize their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any cash that might have been won. Further, several versions of the game give the bettor a chance to double their profits, in which case a further game is played. There are also differences between individual machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other differing aspects to enhance playability.