Electronic Poker is a favored game that can be enjoyed in casinos throughout the world, or alternatively at home on your home computer, through a net account. The rules are very straightforward and consist of the player attempting to achieve the best mixture of cards possible in order to come away with cash. In this respect it’s much the same as a normal game of poker, without the involvement with any other players. Of course, tactics used in a physical game of poker, such as tricking, will be useless in Video Poker.
The game of Electronic Poker begins when the gambler puts credits (either tokens, tickets or cash) into the machine and presses the deal button. A hand of five cards will then be "handed out" on the video screen.
The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and bettors will need to now decide which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the enthusiast would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they wish, from all to none.
After the player has decided on which cards he or she would like to keep, they should press ‘deal’, which will mean that any new cards are handed out if desired. The hand is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands shown on the payment schedule.
Typically, the minimum succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money growing 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 last but not least royal flushes. It goes without saying that the payment schedule can vary from machine to machine, so that discerning gamblers are agile enough to pick the most profitable game each time.
As soon as the first round has finished, the player can either choose to continue on and try to to maximize their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that they may have won. Additionally, some styles of the game allow the bettor a chance to double their profits, in which case another game is played. There are also differences among individual games, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other differing characteristics to enhance playability.