Video Poker is a favored game that can be wagered on in casinos all over the world, or in your house on your PC, through a web account. The rules are absolutely straightforward and consist of the player trying to achieve the highest assemblage of cards as you can in order to win money. On this account it’s very similar as a classic game of poker, without the interaction with competing players. Of course, methods used in a physical game of poker, like tricking, will be irrelevant here.

The game of Video Poker begins when the gambler puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and presses the deal button. A five card hand will then be electronically ‘dealt’ on the video screen.

The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and players will need to now pick which cards to hold and which to discard. 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, from all to none.

After the enthusiast has decided on which cards she would like to retain, they should press ‘deal’, which will mean that any fresh cards are needed they will be handed out. The hand is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the payout schedule.

Typically, the lowest winning hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money growing for each better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to 2 pairs, 3 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 payout schedule can range from machine to machine, so that knowledgeable bettors are able to choose the most profitable game every instance.

As soon as the initial round has played out, the player can either choose to stay on and try to to maximize their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that might been won. Further, several versions of the game allow the bettor a chance to double their wins, in which instance another game is played. There are also variations among individual games, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other varying characteristics to enhance playability.