Electronic Poker is a favored game that can be gambled on in casinos around the globe, or in your house on your home computer, through a web connection. The rules are absolutely simple and involve the player trying to get the highest combination of cards achievable in order to win cash. On this account it’s much the same as a classic game of poker, minus the line of contact 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 Electronic Poker starts when the bettor inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and pushes the play button. A five card hand will be "given out" on the screen.
The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and bettors will need to now decide which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the gambler would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they wish, whether it is all or none.
After the player has chosen which cards he wishes to retain, they should press ‘deal’, which will mean that any new cards are needed they will be given out. The hand is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the payment schedule.
Normally, the lowest succeeding 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, and moves on to 2 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 pay out schedule can change from game to game, so that discerning gamblers are agile enough to pick the most profitable machine every time.
Once the initial round has finished, the player can either decide to stay on in an attempt to increase their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any cash that might have been won. Further, several versions of the game allow the bettor a chance to double their wins, in which instance a further round is played. There are also variations between individual machines, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other varying characteristics to increase playability.