Electronic Poker is a popular game that usually will be bet on in casinos throughout the world, or alternatively at your house on your home computer, using a net account. The rules are absolutely simple and consist of the player trying to achieve the best combination of cards achievable in order to come away with cash. On this account it is very similar as a classic game of poker, apart from the involvement with any other players. Of course, tactics used in a real-life game of poker, such as tricking, will be irrelevant in Video Poker.
The game of Video Poker begins when the bettor puts credits (whether it is tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and presses the draw button. A hand of five cards will then be electronically ‘dealt’ on the screen.
The Electronic Poker machine also has hold buttons, and bettors will need to now choose which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the player would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can choose to keep any amount of cards they want, whether it’s all or none.
After the player has selected which cards he or she would like to retain, the player will then press ‘draw’, which will mean that any new cards will be needed they will be dealt. The round is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the pay out schedule.
Generally, the lowest winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money growing 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 payout schedule can change from game to game, so that skillful enthusiasts are agile enough to select the most profitable game every time.
As soon as the first round has completed, the player can either decide to stay on and try to to increase their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that might have been won. Further, a few versions of the game give the player an opportunity to double their wins, in which case a further hand is played. There are also variations among individual games, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying aspects to increase playability.