Learning Play Video Poker

by Cory on September 22nd, 2015

Electronic Poker is a favored game that can be gambled on in casinos throughout the world, or in your house on your PC, using a web connection. The rules are absolutely simple and consist of the player trying to get the best assemblage of cards as you can in order to come away with cash. In this respect it is much the same as a regular game of poker, without the interaction with any other players. Of course, methods employed during a real-life game of poker, like tricking, will be irrelevant here.

The game of Video Poker begins when the bettor puts credits (either tokens, tickets or cash) into the machine and presses the draw button. A five card hand will then be electronically ‘dealt’ on the screen.

The Electronic Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and bettors will need to now choose which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the bettor wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they want, whether it is all or none.

After the bettor has selected which cards he or she would like to retain, they should press ‘draw’, at which point any fresh cards will be needed they will be dealt. The hand is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the payout schedule.

Generally, the minimum winning hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize 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, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It goes without saying that the payout schedule can change from machine to machine, so that experienced players are able to pick the most money-making machine every instance.

After the initial round has completed, the player can either decide to stay on in an attempt to increase their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that they may have won. Further, some styles of the game give the bettor a chance to increase their winnings, in which situation another hand is played. There are also differences among specific games, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other differing elements to enhance playability.

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