Electronic Poker is a popular game that is able to be gambled on in casinos throughout the world, or in your house on your home computer, using a net connection. The game rules are absolutely simple and involve the player trying to achieve the best assemblage of cards achievable in order to acquire money. In this respect it is much the same as a classic game of poker, apart from the involvement with other players. Of course, methods employed during a physical game of poker, like bluffing, will be irrelevant here.
The game of Video Poker starts when the player inserts credits (whether it’s tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and pushes the deal button. A hand of 5 cards will be "handed out" on the screen.
The Electronic Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and players will need to now choose which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the bettor wishes to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they want, from all to none.
After the gambler has selected which cards she wishes to keep, the player will then press ‘draw’, which will mean that any fresh cards will be needed they will be handed out. The game is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the pay out schedule.
Normally, the lowest winning hand on an Electronic 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 2 pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It should be known that the pay out schedule can range from machine to machine, so that experienced bettors are able to choose the most profitable game each and every time.
As soon as the initial round has played out, the player can either choose to stay on and try to to increase their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any money that has been won. Further, a few styles of the game give the player an opportunity to double their profits, in which case a further game is played. There are also differences among specific games, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other varying characteristics to increase playability.
