Electronic Poker is a popular game that is able to be bet on in casinos around the globe, or in your house on your PC, using a net account. The game rules are very simple and involve the player attempting to achieve the greatest combination of cards achievable in order to win money. On this account it’s much the same as a normal game of poker, minus the involvement with competing players. Of course, methods employed during a physical game of poker, such as tricking, will be useless in Video Poker.
The game of Electronic Poker starts when the gambler inserts credits (whether it’s tokens, credit slips or cash) into the machine and presses the draw button. A five card hand will be electronically ‘given out’ on the video screen.
The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and bettors will need to now decide which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the player wishes to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they wish, from all to none.
After the gambler has decided on which cards he or she wishes to keep, they should press ‘deal’, at which point any fresh cards will be handed out if desired. The hand is now completed, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands printed on the payment schedule.
Generally, the lowest succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money growing for each better hand. A common list of winning hands starts 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 is obvious that the payment schedule can range from game to game, so that skillful gamblers are agile enough to pick the most beneficial ones every time.
As soon as the first round has played out, the player can either decide to remain on in an attempt to maximize their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that they may have won. Further, several versions of the game give the player an opportunity to double their winnings, in which situation another game is played. There are also variations among individual machines, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other varying elements to increase playability.
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