Video Poker is a beloved game that can be bet on in casinos around the globe, or in your house on your home computer, through an Internet account. The regulations are absolutely simple and consist of the player trying to achieve the highest assemblage of cards possible in order to win money. In this respect it’s much the same as a regular game of poker, without the interaction with any other players. Of course, techniques used in a real-life game of poker, such as bluffing, will be irrelevant in Video Poker.
The game of Video Poker begins when the player puts credits (whether it’s tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and presses the deal button. A hand of 5 cards will then be "given out" on the screen.
The Video Poker game also has hold buttons, and bettors should now choose which cards to hold and which to throw away. For the cards the bettor wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can choose to keep any amount of cards they want, whether it’s all or none.
After the player has chosen which cards he would like to retain, they should press ‘draw’, which will mean that any new cards will be dealt if desired. The hand is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the payout schedule.
Normally, the minimum succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money growing for each and every better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to two pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It is obvious that the pay out schedule can vary from machine to machine, so that experienced bettors are agile enough to pick the most money-making ones every instance.
As soon as the initial round has played out, the player can either decide to continue on and try to to increase their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that they may have won. Additionally, a few styles of the game allow the player an opportunity to increase their winnings, in which case a further hand is played. There are also variations between specific machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other differing aspects to enhance playability.