Electronic Poker is a popular game that is able to be gambled on in casinos all over the globe, or in your house on your computer, using an Internet account. The rules are absolutely simple and involve the player attempting to achieve the best assemblage of cards possible in order to acquire money. In this respect it’s much the same as a normal game of poker, apart from the involvement with competing players. Of course, methods used in a physical game of poker, such as bluffing, will be irrelevant here.
The game of Electronic Poker begins when the player puts credits (whether it is tokens, tickets or cash) into the video poker machine and pushes the play button. A five card hand will then be electronically ‘dealt’ on the video screen.
The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and players should now decide which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the bettor would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they wish, from all to none.
After the enthusiast has selected which cards he would like to retain, the player will then press ‘draw’, which will mean that any new cards are dealt if desired. The hand is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the payment schedule.
Generally, the lowest succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money growing for each better hand. A list of common winning hands begins with jacks or better, moving on to 2 pairs, three 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 range from machine to machine, so that experienced gamblers are agile enough to choose the most beneficial game each time.
Once the first round has completed, the player can either decide to remain on and try to to maximize their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any credits that they may have won. Additionally, some versions of the game allow the bettor an opportunity to double their profits, in which case another game is played. There are also differences between specific games, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other varying aspects to increase playability.
