Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Video Poker - A Blend Of Traditional Poker And Video Slots

By Gregory Brooks


Except the regular poker, there also exists video version of poker, which is a mixture of slot based games and the traditional poker. Some people usually decide to play the table game variants such as Texas Hold'em over video version of poker, since they feel that playing against the house is more dangerous than against other gamblers. Although, if the right strategy and tactics are applied, video version of poker can turn out to be your best chance in earning you heaps of cash. If you play right, it is more attractive than normal online slot machines.

Video poker is much easier to play than the table games as it is a mixture of the slot machine games and poker; thus, it is very easy to play if you just master the strategies and apply a wee bit of brainpower. Playing video version of poker will help you to get lower house edge, than you would get if you were to play the slots. The game is amazing because of its visuals. The features and the different options that it offers you are going to thrill you no end. Thus, shall we now go into the way in which video poker is played?

You need a PC to play video version of poker. The computer will replace your adversary at a gaming table. Video poker and 5-card draw poker are played in the same way. They follow the same rules. When the slots are filled with coins, 5 cards are dealt on the screen. The gamer has the choice to retain some of the cards and discard the others. He has to click the 'hold' button on the cards he wants to retain. The rest of the cards will get discarded. Now, he should click the 'deal' button, and new cards will be displayed on the screen. At this point, the gambler will be ranked by the poker hand ranking system, and the rank will be displayed on the pay table that is on the front of the machine. The casinos set the pay table to help them gain the best house edge in the long run.

As mentioned earlier the employing the right strategy will lead you to victory. If you wish that the odds favor you, a few points will have to be considered first, while playing the game. To find out which table offers the best chances you should scan all the pay tables of different video poker machines. Usually, the pay table in all the machines will be the same; there will be a difference only in the flush, full house, or royal flush.

See to it that you bet all your five coins, because the winning hand will get paid in factors of five, except for royal flush. You will be toting up to the royal flush jackpot if you play less than 5 coins. Your painstaking addition could be won by somebody else who has won the jackpot.

If you have enough technical knowledge, then the place to seek for knowledge on video version of poker slot machines is the Internet. You will find thousands of sites that will give you knowledge on all the rules; the location of video poker, different estimations and strategies, and you will be able to learn video poker very fast. Since people who have a lot of experience, and who have played video poker for a long time, have created these statistics, you can be sure to get very valuable knowledge. When you have gone through all this knowledge, you will realize that video poker is a mixture of poker and video slots.




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