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How to Play Video Poker

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Electronic Poker is a favored game that can be bet on in casinos around the globe, or alternatively at home on your PC, through a web account. The rules are very simple and consist of the player attempting to achieve the greatest assemblage of cards as you can in order to come away with money. On this account it is very similar as a normal game of poker, minus the interaction with competing players. Of course, tactics employed during a physical game of poker, such as tricking, will be irrelevant in Video Poker.

The game of Video Poker starts when the enthusiast puts credits (whether it is tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and presses the deal button. A hand of five cards will then be electronically ‘distributed’ on the screen.

The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and gamblers will need to now pick which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the player wishes 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, whether it’s all or none.

After the enthusiast has chosen which cards he or she wishes to retain, they should press ‘deal’, at which point any new cards will be needed they will be handed out. The game is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands shown on the payment schedule.

Normally, the minimum succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money getting larger for each better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, and moves on to 2 pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It should be known that the pay out schedule can vary from machine to machine, so that experienced bettors are able to choose the most money-making ones each and every time.

After the initial round has finished, the player can either decide to remain on and try to to increase their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that have been won. Further, some versions of the game give the gambler a chance to increase their wins, in which case another round is played. There are also variations between specific games, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other varying elements to increase playability.

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