Video Poker is a favored game that is able to be bet on in casinos all over the world, or in your house on your PC, using a net connection. The rules are absolutely straightforward and involve the player trying to achieve the greatest mixture of cards as you can in order to come away with money. In this respect it is very similar as a normal game of poker, apart from the involvement with competing players. Of course, techniques used in a real-life game of poker, like tricking, will be useless here.
The game of Video Poker starts when the enthusiast puts credits (whether it is tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and presses the draw button. A 5 card hand will be electronically ‘given out’ on the screen.
The Video Poker game also has hold buttons, and bettors should now pick which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the bettor wishes to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any amount of cards they want, whether it is all or none.
After the gambler has selected which cards he wishes to retain, the player will then press ‘draw’, at which point any new cards will be dealt if desired. The hand is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the payout schedule.
Generally, the minimum winning hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money getting larger 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, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It is obvious that the payout schedule can change from game to game, so that discerning gamblers are agile enough to pick the most beneficial machine each and every instance.
Once the first round has finished, the player can either choose to continue on and try to to increase their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that have been won. Additionally, several styles of the game allow the gambler an opportunity to increase their wins, in which situation another round is played. There are also differences between specific machines, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other differing elements to enhance playability.