Electronic Poker is a beloved game that can be played in casinos all over the globe, or in your house on your home computer, using an Internet account. The rules are very straightforward and consist of the player trying to achieve the greatest combination of cards possible in order to acquire money. On this account it is very similar as a classic game of poker, minus the line of contact with any other players. Of course, techniques used in a real-life game of poker, such as tricking, will be useless here.
The game of Electronic Poker starts when the player puts credits (either tokens, tickets or money) into the video poker machine and presses the draw button. A hand of five cards will be "dealt" on the video screen.
The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and players should now pick which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the enthusiast wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can choose to keep any amount of cards they want, from all to none.
After the player has selected which cards she wishes to keep, they should press ‘deal’, which will mean that any new cards will be needed they will be handed out. The hand is now finished, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands printed on the payout schedule.
Typically, the minimum succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money increasing for each better hand. A common list of winning hands begins with jacks or better, moving on to 2 pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It should be known that the payment schedule can range from machine to machine, so that discerning players are able to pick the most money-making ones each and every time.
After the first round has played out, the player can either decide to stay on and try to to increase their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any credits that they may have won. Additionally, several versions of the game allow the player a chance to increase their wins, in which case another hand is played. There are also differences among individual games, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other varying aspects to increase playability.