Video Poker is a popular game that is able to be enjoyed in casinos across the globe, or in your house on your PC, through a net account. The game rules are absolutely simple and consist of the player attempting to get the greatest assemblage of cards as you can in order to come away with money. In this respect it is much the same as a classic game of poker, without the involvement with any other players. Of course, tactics used in a real-life game of poker, like tricking, will be irrelevant here.
The game of Video Poker begins when the enthusiast inserts credits (whether it’s tokens, credit slips or money) into the machine and presses the draw button. A 5 card hand will be electronically ‘given out’ on the video screen.
The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and bettors should now pick which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the bettor would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they want, whether it’s all or none.
After the bettor has selected which cards he wishes to keep, the player will then press ‘deal’, at which point any fresh cards are needed they will be handed out. The hand is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands printed on the payment schedule.
Typically, the minimum winning hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money getting larger for each and every better hand. A list of common winning hands begins with jacks or better, moving on to two pairs, three 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 payout schedule can vary from machine to machine, so that skillful gamblers are agile enough to choose the most profitable machine each and every time.
As soon as the initial round has finished, the player can either choose to continue on and try to to maximize their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any cash that they may have won. Further, several versions of the game give the enthusiast a chance to increase their profits, in which case another hand is played. There are also variations between specific games, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other varying aspects to enhance playability.