Video Poker is one of the most exciting new casino games that combines the huge payouts of slot machines with the skill of draw poker. The rules of online video poker are the same as casino video poker - to make the best possible poker hand. Typically, the poker game is Five-Card Draw. In this variation of poker, the player is dealt five cards and is able to keep or discard one or more of the original cards dealt in order to be dealt new cards that will improve her hand. All video poker machines have listed on them what is called their payout schedule. This tells the player how much he will be paid for each poker hand based on how many coins were inserted.
The poker hands are as follows from lowest to highest:
High Card
One Pair
Two Pair
Three-of-a-kind
Straight (five sequential cards)
Flush (five cards all of the same suit)
Full-House (three-of-a-kind plus one-pair)
Four-of-a-kind
Straight Flush (five sequential cards all of the same suit)
Royal Flush (straight flush consisting of 10, J, Q, K, A)
Most video
poker machines will NOT pay any hand worse than a pair of Jacks (these machines
are called "Jacks-or-Better" machines and do not offer wild cards.)
Wild card video poker machines sometimes require the minimum winning hand to
be two-pair or even three-of-a-kind (depending on the TYPE of machine.)
