Video Poker is a favored game that is able to be enjoyed in casinos across the globe, or alternatively at home on your computer, through a net connection. The rules are absolutely straightforward and consist of the player attempting to achieve the greatest assemblage of cards achievable in order to come away with money. On this account it’s very similar as a normal game of poker, without 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 Video Poker starts when the gambler puts credits (whether it’s tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and presses the deal button. A five card hand will then be electronically ‘handed out’ on the screen.
The Electronic Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and bettors will need to now choose which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the bettor would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they want, from all to none.
After the player has chosen which cards she wishes to retain, they should press ‘deal’, which will mean that any new cards are needed they will be handed out. The round is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands shown on the payment schedule.
Normally, the minimum succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money getting larger for each better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to two pairs, three 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 change from game to game, so that knowledgeable players are agile enough to select the most money-making ones each and every instance.
As soon as the first round has completed, the player can either decide to remain on in an attempt to increase their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that have been won. Further, some versions of the game allow the player an opportunity to double their winnings, in which instance a further hand is played. There are also variations among individual machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying characteristics to enhance playability.