Electronic Poker is a favored game that usually will be enjoyed in casinos across the world, or in your house on your PC, using an Internet account. The rules are very simple and consist of the player trying to get the best assemblage of cards achievable in order to win money. In this respect it’s very similar as a normal game of poker, apart from the interaction with any other players. Of course, techniques used in a real-life game of poker, such as bluffing, will be useless here.
The game of Video Poker starts when the bettor puts credits (whether it is tokens, tickets or cash) into the video poker machine and pushes the play button. A 5 card hand will then be "distributed" on the screen.
The Video Poker machine also has hold buttons, and players 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 wish, whether it’s all or none.
After the player has chosen which cards he or she wishes to keep, they should press ‘draw’, which will mean that any new cards are given out if desired. The hand is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands printed on the payout schedule.
Normally, the minimum winning hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money increasing for each and every better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to 2 pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It should be known that the pay out schedule can change from game to game, so that skillful players are agile enough to pick the most profitable game each time.
Once the initial round has finished, the player can either decide to continue on and try to to increase their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any cash that has been won. Further, several versions of the game give the enthusiast a chance to increase their wins, in which instance a further round is played. There are also variations between specific games, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying elements to enhance playability.