Electronic Poker is a beloved game that is able to be enjoyed in casinos all over the world, or in your house on your personal computer, through a net connection. The game rules are absolutely simple and involve the player attempting to achieve the highest combination of cards possible in order to win money. On this account it is much the same as a regular game of poker, minus the line of contact with competing players. Of course, methods used in a real-life game of poker, like tricking, will be useless here.
The game of Electronic Poker begins when the bettor puts credits (whether it’s tokens, credit slips or cash) into the machine and pushes the deal button. A hand of 5 cards will be electronically ‘handed out’ on the screen.
The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and players will need to now choose which cards to hold and which to throw away. For the cards the enthusiast would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they wish, whether it is all or none.
After the player has chosen which cards he wishes to keep, the player will then press ‘draw’, at which point any fresh cards are needed they will be given out. The game is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the pay out schedule.
Normally, the minimum succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money increasing for each better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to 2 pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It definitely goes without saying that the pay out schedule can vary from machine to machine, so that skillful gamblers are agile enough to pick the most money-making ones each time.
Once the first round has finished, the player can either choose to continue on and try to to maximize their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that they may have won. Further, a few styles of the game give the enthusiast an opportunity to double their wins, in which situation a further hand is played. There are also differences between specific games, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying characteristics to enhance playability.
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