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Video Poker : Wagering Tips

by Cory on Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

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Love to gamble on video poker machines? Walk into any casino in Vegas and one thing you will quickly notice is that the casinos spend a tonne of layout space on game machines. A lot of that floor space goes to Video Poker. If you have wagered on electronic Poker for any amount of time, you know that not all machines were created the same. As the years have gone by, even more "specialty" electronic poker games have come into being. At present, I am going to share some of my electronic Poker tricks, I hope you will enjoy them.

Tip 1: Locating a decent video poker machine

Finding a great game is as easy as observing the payment schedule. You really want to keep away from specialty pay games that have bigger top payouts, but minimize the lower payouts. e.g., a machine might pay a little more on four of a kind, but might pay a lot less on two pair, flushes and full houses. Since you will rack up lower scale payouts often, because of the probability of receiving these hands, you should be looking for a strong smaller scale pay out system.

Tip Two: Wagering Plan

Discovering how to play competently is a must. Your gambling tactic will, ultimately, decide your typical return and your finishing cash value. Understanding what action to take in a situation where you have, e.g., two Kings, but four to the flush is significant. Do you keep the Kings and the guaranteed cash or roll the dice for the difficult to get flush? Playing a great machine with a good tactic will offer you a great opportunity to earn money over the long haul.

Hint Three: It’s random

For years, I have observed individuals play Video Poker in Sin City employing all kinds of groundless movements. Some will just use cold tokens to play, some will press the buttons super hard, some will tap the game with their cash before gambling and the list continues on and on. Every hand is built by a random number generator. The instant you start to bet, the hand is set in rock. The machine will at random select all the cards from a deck and hand them out.

Hint 4: There’s no memory

This is a very important one. A lot of folks believe that if they begin to see hands with three of a kind, four to the royal and so forth that the bigger hands are about to hit. This is just wrong. As pointed out in tip 3, the system uses a random number generator to create the hands. The machine has absolutely no recollection. It doesn’t have knowledge that you haven’t received a full house in 400 hands or that you’ve just had 3, 4 of a kind hands in sequence. It’s conceivable you could go 100k hands without a four of a kind and it’s plausible to receive 10 in sequence. The machine doesn’t keep track, because in the end, the numbers are a wash.

I hope these hints have helped you blossom as an electronic Poker player. Myths on how the game works can be a lot more deadly than merely gambling incorrectly. I have observed individuals spend (and lose) thousands of dollars on a machine just because they thought the machine had a memory and was "ready" to hit. Do not fall into traps like this. Understand that electronic Poker is random and needs to be played properly. Now, go enjoy yourself.