Video poker Strategy

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Video Poker is a popular game that can be bet on in casinos all over the world, or alternatively at your house on your personal computer, using a net connection. The rules are very straightforward and involve the player attempting to get the highest combination of cards possible in order to acquire cash. In this respect it is very similar as a regular game of poker, minus the involvement with any other players. Of course, methods employed during a real-life game of poker, such as bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Electronic Poker starts when the gambler inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and presses the play button. A hand of five cards will be electronically ‘handed out’ on the video screen.

The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and bettors will need to now pick which cards to hold and which to throw away. For the cards the enthusiast wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any amount of cards they wish, from all to none.

After the gambler has decided on which cards she wishes to retain, the player will then press ‘draw’, at which point any fresh cards will be dealt if desired. 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.

Generally, the lowest succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money growing for each and every better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to 2 pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It definitely goes without saying that the payment schedule can vary from game to game, so that skillful gamblers are agile enough to pick the most profitable game each and every time.

As soon as the first round has finished, the player can either choose to continue on in an attempt to increase their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any cash that they may have won. Further, some versions of the game allow the bettor an opportunity to double their profits, in which instance a further round is played. There are also variations among individual games, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other differing aspects to increase playability.