Rules on How to Play Video Poker?

Video poker is favored by a lot of devoted casino players. With the introduction of online casinos, there are many more players learning the basics of video poker rules, and discovering just how fun these games can be.

Poker and video poker are very similar, with the obvious difference being that you are not competing with any other real players. Instead of getting the “best hand”, it’s your goal to get a “good enough” hand to incite a payout.

If you like to play poker-oriented card games but have never tried the online, single-player version, continue reading to learn the rules of video poker.

Video Poker Objective

The object in video poker is to achieve a hand that is strong enough to provoke a winning payout. For example, in Jacks Or Better, you need at least a Pair of “Jacks” to signal a win, “Or Better” to get a higher win.

Minimum Hand Requirements and Payouts

All video poker variants have different winning hand requirements and payouts. You can find the exact requirements of all winning combinations and payouts by clicking the video poker “Rules” button. However, most video poker games will display the entire payout schedule directly on the interface. In general, the easier it seems to hit a strong hand, the higher the minimum winning hand requirement will be. For example, a video poker game with wild cards, such as Deuces Wild, is not going to payout for a Pair, no matter how high that pair is. You’ll need to get at least a Three of a Kind to win. Also note that the minimum hand is not going to make you a profit. The lowest paying hand will always return your original bet.

How To Play Video Poker

Playing video poker is as simple as pressing, or clicking, a series of buttons. First, you will place a bet by. Use arrows to lower the price of each coin or increase the price of each coin.

Press the Bet button to insert 1 coin. You may press the Bet button again to continue betting more coins, up to the maximum bet allowed. If you wish to bet the full amount of coins, simply press Bet Max. Pressing Bet Max will automatically deal the cards. Otherwise, when you’ve placed your desired bet, click the Draw button.

Your cards will appear on the screen. Beneath each card is a Hold button. Press this button under each card you wish to keep. The word HOLD will appear on each card you’ve chosen to keep. When you are ready to discard all other cards, to be replaced by new ones, press Draw.

Your new hand is revealed. If you have a winning combination, you will be paid according to the payout chart on the video poker machine. If the winning combinations are displayed at the top of the machine, your winning hand and payout rate will be highlighted to show you what you’ve won.

Multi-Hand Video Poker

Some video poker games come in multi-hand play, meaning you can play more than one poker hand in a single turn. When you play multi-hand video poker, be careful how much you choose to wager, as your bet is actually multiplied by the number of hands being played.

In multi-hand video poker, you are dealt a single hand, which is played in the same manner as single-hand video poker games. However, when you discard and draw new cards, they are dealt out to as many hands as you have paid to play.

The Poker Alice Story

There are many famous people in the history of gambling but not too many of them are women. The Poker Alice is probably the most legendary exception of this rule. Here is the story of this amazing woman who took the “men’s world” of poker.

Poker Alice, originally named as Alice Ivers Tubbs, was born in England in 1851. When she was small, her family moved to the USA where she was attending the private school for women.

She knew nothing about gambling until her 20 when she met and married a mining engineer Frank Duffield who was a skilled poker player (not the video poker but the real one). Together they were attending the poker halls where Alice was just standing near her husband. But after a short time, she learned the rules of the game and started playing by herself, showing the great skills and talent. At first, it was just a hobby. But then, Frank died in the accident and gambling become the main source of income for Alice, now a widow.

With her decent education, Alice could become a teacher, but the gambling world was much more appealing to her. She started earning for a living both as a gambler and a dealer and her unique beauty was attracting all the gamblers in the mining camp to the casino. Soon she was already traveling from one camp to another and everywhere she went, the crowds were gathering in the casinos to meet the famous Poker Alice and try to win at poker playing with her.

For you to have the complete portrait of Poker Alice in your head, here are some facts about her appearance and behavior. Alice was quite a short woman with large blue eyes and long brown hair. She was wearing fancy dresses and at the same time smoking large cigars which was very unusual for women at that time. She was never playing on Sunday because of her religious beliefs and always carrying a revolver. 

The Alice’s gambling trips were always lucrative. She was asked out of the casino in New Mexico when she won big, then she won $6000 in South Dakota and this is where she also met her second husband, Warren G. Tubbs. Their romantic relationships started when she sent a bullet to the hand of a drunk miner who was trying to attack Tubbs.

The new family moved to the ranch on the Moreau river where they have 7 kids. In 1910, Tubbs died of tuberculosis so Alice had to earn a living again. She hired a man to take care of her house and moved to the nearest city to play poker again. This man, George Huckert, proposed to Alice but only for her to become a widow at the third time — Huckert died in 1913. Looks like Alice was very lucky at cards but so unlucky in love.

A few years later, the Poker Alice opened her own saloon where people could play gambling games, drink liquor and enjoy the company of women. One day the drunk man started helling around in the saloon so Alice shot him to death. It was the first but not the last time when she was arrested but always pardoned by the trial or the government.

Alice was playing poker until the last days of her life. She died at the age of 79 after the operation. People say the Poker Alice won more than $250000, always played the fair game and never cheated. In 1987 Poker Alice movie was directed Arthur Allan Seidelman and starring Elizabeth Taylor.

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