Electronic Poker is a popular game that can be enjoyed in casinos around the globe, or in your house on your home computer, using an Internet account. The game rules are absolutely straightforward and consist of the player trying to get the highest assemblage of cards possible in order to come away with money. In this respect it is very similar as a regular game of poker, without the line of contact with any other players. Of course, methods employed during a physical game of poker, such as bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.
The game of Electronic Poker begins when the gambler puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the machine and pushes the deal button. A 5 card hand will then be electronically ‘distributed’ on the screen.
The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and enthusiasts should now pick which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the enthusiast wishes to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can choose to keep any amount of cards they wish, whether it is all or none.
After the gambler has selected which cards he would like to keep, the player will then press ‘deal’, which will mean that any fresh cards will be given out if desired. The round is now finished, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands printed on the payout schedule.
Normally, the lowest succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money growing for each better hand. A common list of winning hands begins with jacks or better, and moves on to 2 pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It definitely goes without saying that the pay out schedule can range from machine to machine, so that discerning gamblers are agile enough to choose the most beneficial game every instance.
As soon as the first round has completed, the player can either choose to continue on in an attempt to maximize their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that they may have won. Additionally, some versions of the game give the gambler an opportunity to double their wins, in which case another round is played. There are also variations among specific machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying elements to enhance playability.