Electronic Poker is a popular game that is able to be enjoyed in casinos across the globe, or in your house on your personal computer, using a web connection. The regulations are very simple and consist of the player attempting to achieve the greatest combination of cards as you can in order to win money. In this respect it is very similar as a normal game of poker, without the interaction with competing players. Of course, techniques employed during a physical game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.
The game of Video Poker starts when the enthusiast puts credits (whether it is tokens, tickets or money) into the machine and presses the play button. A 5 card hand will be electronically ‘distributed’ on the screen.
The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and players will need to now pick which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the player wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they want, whether it’s all or none.
After the player has chosen which cards he wishes to keep, the player will then press ‘deal’, at which point any fresh cards are handed out if desired. The hand is now finished, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the pay out schedule.
Normally, the minimum winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money increasing for each better hand. A list of common winning hands begins with jacks or better, moving on to two pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It should be known that the payment schedule can range from machine to machine, so that knowledgeable bettors are able to pick the most profitable machine every time.
As soon as the first round has finished, the player can either choose to continue on in an attempt to increase their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any money that they may have won. Additionally, several styles of the game give the gambler an opportunity to increase their profits, in which situation another game is played. There are also variations among individual games, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other differing aspects to enhance playability.