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Video Poker is a favored game that usually will be played in casinos around the globe, or in your house on your personal computer, through a net connection. The game rules are absolutely simple and consist of the player attempting to get the highest assemblage of cards achievable in order to come away with money. In this respect it’s very similar as a regular game of poker, apart from the interaction with other players. Of course, techniques used in a real-life game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless here.

The game of Video Poker begins when the gambler puts credits (whether it is tokens, tickets or money) into the video poker machine and pushes the draw button. A 5 card hand will be electronically ‘distributed’ on the video screen.

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

After the bettor has chosen which cards he would like to retain, they should press ‘draw’, which will mean that any fresh cards will be given out if desired. The round is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands printed on the payment schedule.

Generally, the minimum succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money getting larger for each and every better hand. A common list of 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 last but not least royal flushes. It definitely goes without saying that the pay out schedule can vary from machine to machine, so that knowledgeable gamblers are agile enough to choose the most money-making ones each and every instance.

Once the initial round has completed, the player can either decide to stay on and try to to increase their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any money that has been won. Further, some versions of the game allow the player a chance to double their profits, in which instance another game is played. There are also variations among individual games, with some virtual decks including wild cards and other differing aspects to increase playability.