Electronic Poker is a popular game that is able to be gambled on in casinos all over the globe, or in your house on your personal computer, using an Internet connection. The game rules are very simple and involve the player trying to achieve the best mixture of cards achievable in order to acquire money. In this respect it’s much the same as a classic game of poker, without the line of contact with any other players. Of course, tactics employed during a real-life game of poker, such as bluffing, will be useless here.
The game of Electronic Poker begins when the gambler puts credits (whether it’s tokens, tickets or cash) into the video poker machine and presses the play button. A hand of 5 cards will be "handed out" on the screen.
The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and bettors will need to now pick which cards to hold and which to throw away. For the cards the enthusiast wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they wish, from all to none.
After the bettor has decided on which cards he or she would like to retain, they should press ‘deal’, at which point any fresh cards are given out if desired. The round is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the payout schedule.
Normally, the lowest winning hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money getting larger for each better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to 2 pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It is obvious that the payout schedule can change from game to game, so that knowledgeable enthusiasts are able to select the most beneficial machine each and every time.
After the first round has played out, the player can either decide to stay on and try to to maximize their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that has been won. Further, several versions of the game allow the enthusiast an opportunity to increase their wins, in which situation another round is played. There are also differences among individual games, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying characteristics to increase playability.