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 connection. The regulations are very straightforward and consist of the player trying to get the best assemblage of cards possible in order to acquire money. On this account it is very similar as a regular game of poker, apart from the interaction with competing players. Of course, methods used in a real-life game of poker, such as tricking, will be irrelevant in Video Poker.
The game of Video Poker starts when the enthusiast puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and pushes the play button. A hand of 5 cards will be "distributed" on the video screen.
The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and bettors will need to now decide which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the player wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must 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 chosen which cards he would like to retain, they should press ‘deal’, which will mean that any new cards will be dealt if desired. The hand is now finished, with the Video Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the payout schedule.
Generally, the minimum succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money increasing for each better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, and moves on to two pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It is obvious that the pay out schedule can range from game to game, so that experienced enthusiasts are agile enough to select the most money-making machine each and every time.
Once the initial round has finished, the player can either decide to remain on in an attempt to increase their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that they may have won. Additionally, some versions of the game allow the player an opportunity to double their winnings, in which situation another hand is played. There are also differences among individual machines, with some virtual decks including wild cards and other differing aspects to increase playability.
