Electronic Poker is a popular game that can be bet on in casinos all over the globe, or in your house on your home computer, using a web account. The game rules are very simple and involve the player attempting to get the highest assemblage of cards achievable in order to win cash. In this respect it is much the same as a normal game of poker, apart from the line of contact with any other players. Of course, tactics used in a physical game of poker, such as tricking, will be irrelevant in Video Poker.
The game of Video Poker begins when the bettor puts credits (either tokens, tickets or cash) into the video poker machine and pushes the draw button. A hand of five cards will then be electronically ‘dealt’ on the video screen.
The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and players will need to now pick which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the bettor would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons must 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 ‘draw’, which will mean that any fresh cards will be needed they will be dealt. The round is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands printed on the pay out schedule.
Typically, the lowest succeeding 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 begins with jacks or better, and moves 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 payout schedule can vary from machine to machine, so that knowledgeable players are agile enough to choose the most money-making machine every instance.
After the first round has played out, the player can either choose to continue on and try to to maximize their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that has been won. Further, some versions of the game give the enthusiast an opportunity to increase their wins, in which situation a further game is played. There are also variations among specific games, with some virtual decks including wild cards and other differing aspects to increase playability.