Electronic Poker is a popular game that can be enjoyed in casinos throughout the world, or alternatively at your house on your computer, using a web connection. The regulations are very simple and involve the player attempting to get the greatest assemblage of cards possible in order to come away with money. On this account it’s much the same as a classic game of poker, minus the interaction with any other players. Of course, tactics used in a physical game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.
The game of Electronic Poker starts when the enthusiast inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and pushes the draw button. A hand of five cards will be electronically ‘distributed’ on the screen.
The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and players will need to now choose which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the enthusiast wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they want, from all to none.
After the gambler has decided on which cards he would like to keep, they should press ‘draw’, at which point any fresh cards are needed they will be dealt. The round is now completed, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands shown on the payout schedule.
Generally, the lowest winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money increasing for each and every better hand. A common list of winning hands begins 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 definitely goes without saying that the pay out schedule can vary from game to game, so that experienced gamblers are agile enough to choose the most profitable machine each and every instance.
As soon as the first round has played out, the player can either decide to continue on and try to to increase their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any credits that they may have won. Further, some versions of the game give the player an opportunity to double their wins, in which instance a further hand is played. There are also differences between specific games, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other varying aspects to enhance playability.