Video Poker is a beloved game that can be bet on in casinos throughout the globe, or in your house on your PC, through a web account. The game rules are absolutely simple and involve the player attempting to achieve the highest assemblage of cards possible in order to win money. In this respect it’s much the same as a classic game of poker, minus the interaction with competing players. Of course, tactics employed during a physical game of poker, such as tricking, will be useless here.
The game of Video Poker starts when the player puts credits (whether it’s tokens, tickets or money) into the video poker machine and presses the draw button. A 5 card hand will be "handed out" on the screen.
The Electronic Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and gamblers will need to now choose which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the player wishes to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons should 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 decided on which cards he wishes to keep, the player will then press ‘draw’, at which point any new cards are handed out if desired. The round is now completed, with the Video Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the payment schedule.
Normally, the lowest succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money getting larger 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, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It is obvious that the payout schedule can range from machine to machine, so that skillful bettors are able to select the most money-making machine every time.
Once the first round has finished, the player can either decide to remain on in an attempt to increase their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any credits that have been won. Further, some styles of the game give the enthusiast a chance to increase their profits, in which instance another hand is played. There are also variations among individual machines, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other varying elements to increase playability.
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