Video poker Tips

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Video Poker is a popular game that usually will be enjoyed in casinos all over the world, or in your house on your PC, using an Internet account. The rules are very simple and involve the player attempting to achieve the highest combination of cards as you can in order to win money. On this account it’s much the same as a normal game of poker, without the interaction with competing players. Of course, techniques employed during a physical game of poker, like tricking, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Video Poker starts when the gambler inserts credits (either tokens, tickets or cash) into the video poker machine and pushes the play button. A 5 card hand will be "given out" on the screen.

The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and players will need to now pick which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the player wishes to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they want, whether it is all or none.

After the gambler has chosen which cards he wishes to keep, they should press ‘deal’, which will mean that any new cards will be given out if desired. The hand is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the payout schedule.

Normally, the lowest winning hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money getting larger for each better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, and moves on to two pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It is obvious that the pay out schedule can range from machine to machine, so that discerning enthusiasts are able to choose the most beneficial ones each and every instance.

After the initial round has played out, the player can either decide to continue on and try to to increase their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that they may have won. Further, some versions of the game give the bettor an opportunity to double their profits, in which situation another game is played. There are also variations among individual machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying aspects to increase playability.