Electronic Poker is a popular game that can be gambled on in casinos around the globe, or alternatively at home on your personal computer, using an Internet connection. The regulations are very simple and consist of the player trying to get the highest combination of cards achievable in order to win money. On this account it is very similar as a classic game of poker, without the involvement with competing players. Of course, techniques employed during a physical game of poker, such as bluffing, will be irrelevant in Video Poker.
The game of Video Poker starts when the enthusiast inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the machine and presses the deal button. A 5 card hand will then be electronically ‘handed out’ on the screen.
The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and bettors should now decide which cards to hold and which to throw away. For the cards the gambler wishes to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they want, whether it’s all or none.
After the enthusiast has decided on which cards he would like to keep, the player will then press ‘deal’, at which point any fresh cards will be handed out if desired. The round is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands printed on the payment schedule.
Normally, the lowest succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money increasing for each better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, and moves on to 2 pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 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 discerning players are agile enough to select the most money-making ones each and every instance.
Once the initial round has completed, the player can either choose to stay on in an attempt to increase their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that might have been won. Further, several styles of the game give the player an opportunity to double their wins, in which instance another hand is played. There are also differences among specific machines, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other varying aspects to increase playability.