Video Poker is a favored game that usually will be bet on in casinos all over the world, or in your house on your PC, through a net connection. The regulations are absolutely straightforward and consist of the player attempting to achieve the highest assemblage of cards achievable in order to win money. In this respect it is very similar as a normal game of poker, minus the involvement with any other players. Of course, techniques employed during a physical game of poker, like tricking, will be useless in Video Poker.
The game of Video Poker begins when the player inserts credits (either tokens, tickets or money) into the machine and presses the draw button. A hand of 5 cards will then be electronically ‘distributed’ on the screen.
The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and enthusiasts will need to now pick which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the bettor wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they wish, whether it is all or none.
After the bettor has chosen 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 game is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands shown on the payment schedule.
Generally, the lowest succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money increasing for each better hand. A common list of winning hands begins with jacks or better, and moves on to two pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It goes without saying that the pay out schedule can vary from machine to machine, so that discerning bettors are agile enough to select the most beneficial ones each time.
Once the first round has finished, the player can either decide to continue on in an attempt to maximize their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that they may have won. Further, several versions of the game allow the gambler a chance to increase their winnings, in which instance a further game is played. There are also variations among individual machines, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other varying characteristics to increase playability.
