How to Enjoy Video Poker


Electronic Poker is a favored game that can be enjoyed in casinos all over the world, or in your house on your home computer, through an Internet account. The rules are absolutely simple and involve the player trying to achieve the greatest combination of cards achievable in order to win money. 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 real-life game of poker, such as bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Video Poker begins when the gambler puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the machine and pushes the draw button. A hand of five cards will be "given out" on the screen.

The Video Poker machine also has hold buttons, and players will need to now pick which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the player would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they want, whether it is all or none.

After the enthusiast has chosen which cards he would like to keep, they should press ‘deal’, which will mean that any fresh cards will be handed out if desired. The hand is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the payout schedule.

Generally, the minimum winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money increasing for each and every 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, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It should be known that the pay out schedule can range from game to game, so that skillful enthusiasts are agile enough to pick the most beneficial game each and every instance.

As soon as the initial round has played out, the player can either choose to stay on in an attempt to increase their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any money that has been won. Additionally, several styles of the game allow the player a chance to increase their winnings, in which situation a further round is played. There are also differences between individual machines, with some virtual decks including wild cards and other varying elements to enhance playability.

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