Video poker is a casino game based on five-card draw poker. It is played on a computerized console similar in size to a slot machine.

The game

After inserting money (or a barcoded paper ticket with credit) into the machine, play begins by placing a bet of one or more credits and pressing the “deal” button. The player is then given cards and has the opportunity to discard one or more of them in exchange for new ones drawn from the same virtual deck. After the draw, the machine pays out if the hand or hands played match one of the winning combinations, which are posted in the pay table.

Pay tables allocate the payouts for hands and are based on how rare they are, the game variation, and the decision of the game operator. A typical pay table starts with a minimum hand of a pair of jacks, which pays even money. All the other hand combinations in video poker are the same as in table poker, including such hands as two pair, three of a kind, straight (a sequence of 5 cards of different suits), flush (any 5 cards of the same suit), full house (a pair and a three of a kind), four of a kind (four cards of the same value), straight flush (5 consecutive cards of the same suit) and royal flush (a Ten, a Jack, a Queen, a King and an Ace of the same suit).^[1]

Some machines offer progressive jackpots, or other unique bonuses, thereby spurring players to both play more coins and to play more frequently.

References

Links

• Video Poker Guides at the Open Directory Project
• Video Poker at the Yahoo! Directory

Notes: 1. American casino Guide(2009 ed.)p. 53. 2. Ibid.,p. 58. 3.Ibid.,p. 57. 4.Ibid.,p. 57.

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