Video Poker
video poker play begins by placing a bet of one or more credits, by inserting money into the machine, and then pressing the “Deal” button to draw cards. You can keep or discard one or more of the cards in exchange for a new card drawn from the same deck. After the draw, the computer evaluates the hand and offers a payout if the hand matches one of the winning hands in the posted pay schedule.
On a typical video poker game, payouts start with a minimum hand of a pair of jacks. Pay tables allocate the payout for hands based partially upon how rare they are, and also based upon the theoretical return the video poker operator chooses to offer.
Some machines offer progressive jackpots for the royal flush and sometimes for other rare hands as well.
Newer video poker machines may employ variants of the basic five-card draw. Typical variations include Deuces Wild, where a two serves as a wild card and a jackpot is paid for four deuces or a natural royal; pay schedule modification, where four aces with a five or smaller kicker pays an enhanced amount (usually “bonus”, “double”, or “triple”) and multi-play poker, where the player starts with a base hand of five cards, and each additional played hand draws from a different set of cards with the base hand removed. Multi-play games are offered in “Triple Play”, “Five Play”, “Ten Play”, “Fifty Play” and even “One Hundred Play” versions.
In the non-wild games (games which do not have a wild card) a player who plays five or six hundred hands per hour, on average, may receive the rare four-of-a-kind approximately once per hour, while a player may play for many days or weeks before receiving an extremely rare royal flush.
admin on April 24th, 2007