Electronic Poker is a favored game that is able to be gambled on in casinos across the world, or in your house on your PC, using a net account. The rules are absolutely simple and involve the player trying to achieve the best mixture of cards as you can in order to come away with cash. In this respect it’s much the same as a regular game of poker, minus the line of contact with competing players. Of course, tactics employed during a physical game of poker, like bluffing, will be irrelevant in Video Poker.
The game of Video Poker begins when the bettor puts credits (whether it is tokens, tickets or cash) into the video poker machine and pushes the deal button. A hand of 5 cards will be "dealt" on the screen.
The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and enthusiasts will need to now choose which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the player wishes to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they want, whether it is all or none.
After the player has selected which cards she would like to keep, they should press ‘deal’, which will mean that any fresh cards are dealt if desired. The round is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands shown on the payment schedule.
Typically, the minimum winning hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money growing for each better hand. A common list of winning hands begins with jacks or better, moving on to two pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It should be known that the pay out schedule can range from machine to machine, so that discerning enthusiasts are able to select the most profitable game each instance.
Once the first round has played out, the player can either choose to continue on and try to to increase their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any cash that they may have won. Additionally, several styles of the game give the enthusiast an opportunity to double their winnings, in which case a further round is played. There are also variations between individual machines, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other differing characteristics to enhance playability.