Electronic Poker is a favored game that can be gambled on in casinos all over the world, or in your house on your home computer, using a net connection. The game rules are absolutely straightforward and consist of the player attempting to achieve the highest combination of cards achievable in order to win money. In this respect it is much the same as a normal game of poker, apart from the involvement with any other players. Of course, tactics employed during a real-life game of poker, like tricking, will be irrelevant in Video Poker.
The game of Electronic Poker starts when the enthusiast puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and pushes the deal button. A hand of five cards will then be electronically ‘given out’ on the video screen.
The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and players will need to now decide which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the gambler would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they wish, whether it’s all or none.
After the bettor has chosen which cards he would like to keep, they should press ‘deal’, at which point any new cards are needed they will be dealt. The hand is now finished, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands printed on the payout schedule.
Typically, the minimum succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money growing for each and every better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to two pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It should be known that the payment schedule can vary from machine to machine, so that experienced enthusiasts are agile enough to pick the most money-making game each and every instance.
Once the first round has finished, the player can either decide to continue on in an attempt to maximize their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that they may have won. Additionally, a few versions of the game give the bettor a chance to increase their profits, in which case another game is played. There are also differences among specific games, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other differing characteristics to increase playability.