Electronic Poker is a popular game that is able to be wagered on in casinos throughout the world, or alternatively at your house on your PC, using a net connection. The rules are absolutely simple and consist of the player attempting to get the best assemblage of cards as you can in order to acquire cash. In this respect it’s much the same as a regular game of poker, without the involvement with other players. Of course, techniques employed during a real-life game of poker, such as bluffing, will be irrelevant here.
The game of Electronic Poker starts when the player inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and presses the draw button. A five card hand will be electronically ‘distributed’ on the screen.
The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and gamblers will need to now decide which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the enthusiast would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any amount of cards they want, whether it is all or none.
After the gambler has decided on which cards he or she wishes to keep, they should press ‘draw’, at which point any fresh cards will be handed out if desired. The game is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands printed on the pay out schedule.
Generally, the lowest winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money getting larger for each and every better hand. A common list of winning hands starts 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 goes without saying that the pay out schedule can vary from game to game, so that skillful enthusiasts are agile enough to pick the most money-making ones every instance.
As soon as the first round has completed, the player can either choose to stay on and try to to increase their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that they may have won. Additionally, a few versions of the game allow the gambler a chance to double their profits, in which instance a further round is played. There are also variations among specific machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other differing elements to increase playability.