Video Poker is a popular game that is able to be gambled on in casinos throughout the globe, or in your house on your computer, using a web account. The game rules are very straightforward and consist of the player attempting to get the highest assemblage of cards as you can in order to come away with cash. In this respect it is very similar as a normal game of poker, without the interaction with any other players. Of course, methods employed during a real-life game of poker, like tricking, will be useless in Video Poker.
The game of Video Poker begins when the bettor puts credits (whether it is tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and pushes the play button. A 5 card hand will be "distributed" on the screen.
The Video Poker game 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 player wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they wish, whether it is all or none.
After the enthusiast has decided on which cards he or she wishes to retain, they should press ‘deal’, which will mean that any new cards are given out if desired. The hand is now completed, with the Video Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands shown on the payout schedule.
Generally, the minimum succeeding 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, and moves on to 2 pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It should be known that the payout schedule can change from machine to machine, so that skillful gamblers are agile enough to select the most profitable game each instance.
After the initial round has played out, the player can either decide to remain on and try to to increase their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any credits that they may have won. Additionally, some styles of the game give the enthusiast a chance to increase their wins, in which situation another round is played. There are also variations among individual games, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying elements to enhance playability.