The Proper Way to Enjoy Video Poker
April 30th, 2016 at 8:21
Video Poker is a popular game that usually will be enjoyed in casinos across the globe, or in your house on your PC, using a web connection. The rules are very simple and consist of the player attempting to achieve the best assemblage of cards possible in order to win cash. On this account it’s very similar as a normal game of poker, apart from the line of contact with other players. Of course, techniques used in a real-life game of poker, such as bluffing, will be useless here.
The game of Video Poker starts when the bettor puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and pushes the play button. A hand of five cards will be "dealt" on the video screen.
The Electronic Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and players will need to now pick which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the player wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they wish, whether it is all or none.
After the player has decided on which cards she would like to retain, the player will then press ‘draw’, at which point any fresh cards are needed they will be given out. The game is now completed, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands printed on the pay out schedule.
Typically, the lowest succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money growing for each better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to two pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It should be known that the payment schedule can change from game to game, so that experienced bettors are agile enough to choose the most money-making machine each and every time.
Once the initial round has played out, the player can either decide to remain on and try to to increase their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that they may have won. Further, some versions of the game allow the enthusiast an opportunity to increase their wins, in which case another round is played. There are also variations among specific games, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other differing aspects to increase playability.