Electronic Poker is a popular game that is able to be wagered on in casinos around the world, or in your house on your personal computer, through a web account. The game rules are absolutely straightforward and involve the player attempting to get the best assemblage of cards achievable in order to come away with cash. In this respect it is very similar as a normal game of poker, apart from the interaction with any other players. Of course, tactics used in a real-life game of poker, such as tricking, will be irrelevant in Video Poker.
The game of Video Poker begins when the player puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and pushes the draw button. A hand of five cards will then be electronically ‘distributed’ on the screen.
The Electronic Poker machine also has hold buttons, and players will need to now pick which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the enthusiast would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they wish, whether it is all or none.
After the player has selected which cards he wishes to keep, they should press ‘deal’, which will mean that any fresh cards will be given out if desired. The hand is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands printed on the pay out schedule.
Generally, the minimum succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money getting larger for each and every better hand. A common list of winning hands begins with jacks or better, and moves on to two pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It goes without saying that the pay out schedule can change from machine to machine, so that discerning gamblers are agile enough to choose the most beneficial machine each and every time.
Once the first round has finished, the player can either decide to remain on and try to to increase their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that has been won. Additionally, some versions of the game allow the gambler a chance to double their profits, in which instance a further hand is played. There are also variations between individual games, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other differing aspects to increase playability.