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How to Enjoy Video Poker

Electronic Poker is a popular game that is able to be played in casinos across the globe, or in your house on your home computer, using a web account. The rules are absolutely straightforward and involve the player attempting to get the best mixture of cards as you can in order to acquire cash. In this respect it’s very similar as a classic game of poker, minus the interaction with any other players. Of course, methods used in a real-life game of poker, like tricking, will be useless here.

The game of Electronic Poker begins when the bettor puts credits (whether it is tokens, tickets or money) into the video poker machine and presses the draw button. A 5 card hand will then be electronically ‘handed out’ on the screen.

The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and gamblers will need to now pick which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the gambler would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they wish, whether it’s all or none.

After the enthusiast has chosen which cards she would like to retain, they should press ‘draw’, which will mean that any fresh cards are dealt if desired. The round is now finished, with the Video Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the payout schedule.

Typically, the minimum winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money getting larger for each better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to two pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It should be known that the pay out schedule can change from machine to machine, so that knowledgeable players are agile enough to select the most profitable machine each and every time.

Once the initial round has completed, the player can either choose to remain on and try to to maximize their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any money that they may have won. Further, a few versions of the game allow the bettor an opportunity to double their wins, in which situation another round is played. There are also variations between specific games, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other varying characteristics to increase playability.

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