Video Poker is a favored game that is able to be played in casinos around the world, or in your house on your PC, using a web connection. The rules are absolutely simple and involve the player trying to get the highest assemblage of cards achievable in order to acquire cash. In this respect it’s very similar as a classic game of poker, apart from the interaction with any other players. Of course, methods used in a physical game of poker, such as bluffing, will be useless here.
The game of Video Poker starts when the enthusiast inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the machine and presses the draw button. A five card hand will be "handed out" on the screen.
The Electronic Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and players will need to now decide which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the bettor wishes to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they wish, whether it is all or none.
After the enthusiast has selected which cards she would like to keep, the player will then press ‘deal’, which will mean that any new cards will be needed they will be handed out. The hand is now finished, with the Video Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands printed on the payment schedule.
Typically, the minimum winning hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money growing for each and every better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, and moves on to two pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It goes without saying that the payment schedule can change from game to game, so that discerning bettors are agile enough to pick the most money-making game each and every time.
Once the initial round has played out, the player can either decide to remain on in an attempt to maximize their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that has been won. Additionally, some versions of the game allow the enthusiast an opportunity to double their profits, in which case another round is played. There are also differences between individual games, with some virtual decks including wild cards and other varying aspects to increase playability.
