Electronic Poker is a favored game that is able to be enjoyed in casinos around the globe, or in your house on your personal computer, using a web connection. The regulations are very simple and consist of the player attempting to achieve the highest mixture of cards possible in order to win cash. In this respect it is very similar as a regular game of poker, without the interaction with any other players. Of course, methods employed during a real-life game of poker, such as bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.
The game of Video Poker begins when the player puts credits (whether it is tokens, credit slips or cash) into the machine and presses the deal button. A 5 card hand will then be electronically ‘handed out’ on the video screen.
The Electronic Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and gamblers will need to now decide which cards to hold and which to throw away. For the cards the player wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can choose to keep any amount of cards they wish, whether it’s all or none.
After the gambler has decided on which cards he or she wishes to keep, they should press ‘deal’, which will mean that any new cards are dealt 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 payment schedule.
Generally, the lowest succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money getting larger for each and every better hand. A list of common winning hands begins with jacks or better, moving on to two pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It goes without saying that the payout schedule can range from game to game, so that discerning enthusiasts are able to select the most money-making ones every time.
As soon as the initial round has played out, the player can either choose to continue on in an attempt to increase their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that they may have won. Further, a few styles of the game give the bettor an opportunity to increase their wins, in which case a further game is played. There are also variations among specific games, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other differing characteristics to increase playability.