Electronic Poker is a beloved game that is able to be played in casinos throughout the globe, or in your house on your home computer, through an Internet connection. The rules are absolutely simple and consist of the player attempting to achieve the greatest combination of cards achievable in order to acquire money. In this respect it is very similar as a regular game of poker, minus the line of contact with other players. Of course, methods used in a real-life game of poker, like tricking, will be useless in Video Poker.
The game of Video Poker begins when the player puts credits (either tokens, tickets or cash) into the video poker machine and pushes the draw button. A hand of five cards will then be "given out" on the screen.
The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and bettors should now pick which cards to hold and which to throw away. For the cards the gambler would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they wish, whether it’s all or none.
After the enthusiast has decided on which cards he would like to keep, the player will then press ‘deal’, which will mean that any new cards will be dealt if desired. The game is now finished, with the Video Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands shown on the payment schedule.
Normally, the lowest succeeding hand on an Electronic 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, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It goes without saying that the payout schedule can change from game to game, so that knowledgeable players are agile enough to choose the most beneficial machine every time.
As soon as the initial round has completed, the player can either decide to remain on and try to to increase their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that might have been won. Additionally, several styles of the game give the gambler a chance to double their wins, in which instance another hand is played. There are also variations between specific machines, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other differing characteristics to enhance playability.