Video Poker is a popular game that usually will be enjoyed in casinos across the globe, or in your house on your home computer, through a net connection. The rules are very straightforward and involve the player trying to achieve the highest mixture of cards as you can in order to acquire cash. In this respect it is much the same as a regular game of poker, without the interaction with competing players. Of course, techniques employed during a physical game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.
The game of Electronic Poker starts when the player inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the machine and pushes the play button. A five card hand will be "handed out" on the video screen.
The Electronic Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and gamblers should now decide which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the bettor wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can choose to keep any amount of cards they want, from all to none.
After the bettor has selected which cards he would like to keep, they should press ‘deal’, at which point any fresh cards will be needed they will be dealt. The game is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the pay out schedule.
Generally, the minimum winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money growing for each and every better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, and moves on to two pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It is obvious that the payout schedule can range from machine to machine, so that skillful bettors are agile enough to pick the most money-making game each and every time.
Once the initial round has completed, the player can either decide to remain on in an attempt to increase their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that has been won. Further, some styles of the game give the bettor an opportunity to increase their profits, in which situation another game is played. There are also variations between specific games, with some virtual decks including wild cards and other varying characteristics to increase playability.