Electronic Poker is a favored game that can be played in casinos all over the world, or in your house on your home computer, using an Internet connection. The game rules are very straightforward and involve the player attempting to achieve the highest mixture of cards as you can in order to acquire money. In this respect it’s very similar as a classic game of poker, apart from the interaction with any other players. Of course, tactics used in a physical game of poker, such as bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.
The game of Electronic Poker begins when the bettor puts credits (whether it’s tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and pushes the play button. A hand of five cards will be "distributed" on the screen.
The Electronic Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and gamblers will need to now pick which cards to hold and which to throw away. For the cards the enthusiast wishes to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they want, from all to none.
After the player has selected which cards he would like to keep, they should press ‘draw’, at which point any fresh 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 is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the payment schedule.
Generally, the minimum winning hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money growing for each better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to two pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It goes without saying that the pay out schedule can range from machine to machine, so that discerning players are agile enough to choose the most money-making machine every time.
As soon as the initial round has finished, the player can either decide to stay on and try to to maximize their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any credits that they may have won. Additionally, some styles of the game allow the player a chance to double their profits, in which situation a further game is played. There are also differences between individual games, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other differing aspects to increase playability.
