Video Poker

Video poker is still being played despite the hoard of online poker games being available. You can see video poker games in hotels, airports and lounge and in several of the public places, where you can play by just inserting coins or by purchasing bar-coded tickets for such.

In video poker chances are more for a player that is patient and is ready to do some homework. For those that like a low house game and big winning video poker can give a lot of desired answers.

Some of the rules in video poker are as follows:-
You can use from 1 to 5 coins to play the game.
Once you insert the coin, the machine deals you with 5 cards
Based on how the cards have turned up you can either choose to fold or continue to draw to improve.
You can have some cards discarded and the software will provide you with replacement cards.

However winning in a video poker is not all easy and all fun. You need to master the strategies and some when to do and when to not kind of things. Some of the games that you can commonly expect to play in video poker are:-
Jacks or better
Deuces wild
Jokers wild

In Jacks or better for video poker games, royal flush, straight flush, four of a kind, full house, flush, straight, three of a kind, two pair and pair of jacks or better are the winning hands.

In deuces wild for video poker you can substitute the two as a wild card for any other rank or any other suit. These games are very exciting to play than Jacks or better. The winning hands are royal flush without deuces, four deuces, wild royal flush, five of a kind. Combinations like straight flush, four of a kind, full house, flush, straight, three of a kind with all of these without deuces is also winning hands.

Jokers wild for video poker is played with having joker as the wild card along with the 52 deck card in forming a hand. Royal flush without a joker and five of a kind with a joker are winning combinations and also straight flush, four of a kind, full house, flush, straight, three of a kind, two pair, pair of kings or Aces are also winning hands with or without joker.