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Learning Play Video Poker

Video Poker is a beloved game that can be wagered on in casinos all over the world, or in your house on your personal computer, using an Internet account. The regulations are very simple and involve the player trying to achieve the greatest assemblage of cards as you can in order to win money. In this respect it is very similar as a regular game of poker, apart from the line of contact with competing players. Of course, tactics employed during a physical game of poker, like tricking, will be irrelevant in Video Poker.

The game of Electronic Poker starts when the player inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the machine and presses the play button. A five card hand will be "given out" on the screen.

The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and gamblers should now pick which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the bettor would like 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, from all to none.

After the enthusiast has selected which cards he would like to keep, they should press ‘draw’, at which point any fresh cards will be given out if desired. The hand is now finished, with the Video Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands printed on the pay out schedule.

Normally, the lowest succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money increasing for each better hand. A common list of winning hands begins with jacks or better, and moves on to 2 pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 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 discerning enthusiasts are able to choose the most beneficial ones every time.

After the initial round has finished, the player can either decide to stay on in an attempt to maximize their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that might been won. Further, some versions of the game allow the bettor an opportunity to double their profits, in which instance a further game is played. There are also differences among individual machines, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other differing characteristics to increase playability.

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