How to Gamble on Electronic Poker

Video Poker is a popular game that is able to be enjoyed in casinos across the world, or in your house on your PC, using an Internet account. The game rules are very straightforward and consist of the player attempting to get the greatest assemblage of cards possible in order to win money. On this account it is much the same as a regular game of poker, minus the involvement with competing players. Of course, methods employed during a real-life game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Video Poker begins when the bettor puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and presses the deal button. A 5 card hand will be electronically ‘dealt’ on the video screen.

The Electronic Poker game also has hold buttons, and gamblers will need to now pick which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the gambler wishes to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they wish, from all to none.

After the player has decided on which cards she would like to keep, they should press ‘draw’, at which point any new cards will be handed out if desired. The round is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands shown on the payment schedule.

Typically, the lowest winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money getting larger for each and every better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to 2 pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It is obvious that the pay out schedule can vary from machine to machine, so that discerning bettors are able to choose the most money-making game every time.

As soon as the initial round has finished, the player can either decide to remain on and try to to increase their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any credits that might been won. Further, some versions of the game give the gambler a chance to increase their winnings, in which situation a further game is played. There are also differences among individual games, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other differing aspects to increase playability.

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