Video poker Strategy

How to Gamble on Electronic Poker

by Sergio on Jan.29, 2016, under Video Poker

[ English ]

Electronic Poker is a favored game that is able to be bet on in casinos around the world, or in your house on your home computer, using a net account. The rules are absolutely simple and involve the player attempting to get the greatest assemblage of cards as you can in order to acquire cash. On this account it is very similar as a classic game of poker, without the interaction with other players. Of course, tactics employed during a physical game of poker, such as tricking, will be irrelevant here.

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

The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and enthusiasts should now choose which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the enthusiast would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they want, whether it’s all or none.

After the bettor has chosen which cards she would like to retain, they should press ‘draw’, which will mean that any new cards are handed out if desired. The game is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands shown on the payment schedule.

Typically, the lowest succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money increasing for each better hand. A list of common winning hands begins with jacks or better, and moves on to 2 pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It goes without saying that the payout schedule can change from machine to machine, so that discerning gamblers are agile enough to choose the most money-making machine each instance.

Once the first round has played out, the player can either decide to continue on and try to to maximize their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any cash that might have been won. Additionally, several styles of the game allow the enthusiast an opportunity to double their wins, in which case a further round is played. There are also differences between specific games, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other varying aspects to increase playability.


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