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Video Poker is a popular game that usually will be gambled on in casinos all over the world, or alternatively at home on your home computer, through a web connection. The game rules are absolutely simple and consist of the player attempting to achieve the highest assemblage of cards achievable in order to acquire money. On this account it is very similar as a classic game of poker, apart from the line of contact with other players. Of course, tactics used in a real-life game of poker, such as tricking, will be useless here.

The game of Video Poker starts when the gambler inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and pushes the deal button. A hand of 5 cards will be electronically ‘given out’ on the screen.

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

After the gambler has selected which cards she wishes to retain, the player will then press ‘draw’, which will mean that any new cards are given 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 printed on the payout schedule.

Normally, the minimum succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money increasing for each better hand. A common list of winning hands begins with jacks or better, and moves on to two pairs, three 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 payment schedule can change from game to game, so that experienced bettors are able to select the most profitable machine each and every time.

Once the initial round has played out, the player can either decide to stay on and try to to increase their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that has been won. Additionally, some styles of the game allow the player a chance to increase their winnings, in which instance a further game is played. There are also differences among specific games, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other varying elements to increase playability.