How to Gamble on Video Poker
Friday, 10. September 2021
Electronic Poker is a popular game that can be enjoyed in casinos all over the world, or in your house on your computer, through a net connection. The rules are very simple and consist of the player attempting to get the highest combination of cards possible in order to acquire money. In this respect it is much the same as a classic game of poker, minus the involvement with competing players. Of course, techniques used in a real-life game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless here.
The game of Video Poker starts when the bettor inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the machine and presses the deal button. A hand of five cards will be "given out" on the video screen.
The Video Poker machine also has hold buttons, and gamblers should now choose which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the enthusiast wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they want, whether it’s all or none.
After the enthusiast has chosen which cards he would like to keep, the player will then press ‘deal’, which will mean that any new cards are handed out if desired. The game is now finished, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands shown on the payment schedule.
Normally, the minimum winning hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money getting larger for each better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, and moves on to two pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It is obvious that the payment schedule can change from machine to machine, so that experienced players are agile enough to select the most profitable game each and every instance.
Once the first round has played out, the player can either decide to stay 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 enthusiast an opportunity to increase their wins, in which situation a further game is played. There are also differences between individual machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other differing elements to increase playability.
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