Video Poker is a favored game that usually will be bet on in casinos around the globe, or in your house on your home computer, through an Internet account. The regulations are very simple and involve the player trying to get the best assemblage of cards possible in order to win cash. On this account it is much the same as a classic game of poker, minus the interaction with competing players. Of course, tactics used in a real-life game of poker, such as bluffing, will be irrelevant here.
The game of Video Poker starts when the bettor puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and presses the draw button. A 5 card hand will then be electronically ‘given out’ on the screen.
The Video Poker game also has hold buttons, and gamblers will need to now decide which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the player would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they wish, from all to none.
After the player has selected which cards he or she would like to keep, they should press ‘deal’, which will mean that any fresh cards will be needed they will be dealt. The round is now finished, with the Video Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands printed on the payout schedule.
Normally, the lowest succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money increasing for each better hand. A list of common winning hands begins with jacks or better, moving on to 2 pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It definitely goes without saying that the pay out schedule can change from machine to machine, so that skillful bettors are able to choose the most money-making machine every time.
As soon as the first round has completed, the player can either choose to remain on and try to to increase their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any money that might have been won. Additionally, a few styles of the game give the bettor an opportunity to double their profits, in which case a further game is played. There are also differences between individual machines, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other differing aspects to increase playability.