Ever since Neil Armstrong uttered the historical words “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. ” as he stepped on the surface of the Moon in 1976, the world seems to have embarked on an upward spiral of technological progress. In the 70’s video poker appeared and became the most popular game at that time. Video poker has not lost its popularity since then. People have been attracted by this game ever since its birth, 30 years ago.

Video poker is a game for skilled people; it has a low house edge and you can win large sums of money. The rules of the game are simple, but the game itself is really interesting. You will see when you will play that it grabs you. How do you start playing? Well, it’s really easy. You have to put in the machine some coins, one to five coins. You will see that the machine will give you five cards. From this point on, you must make some decisions: you have to choose some cards that you want to hold, and discard the rest. The cards you discard are the one that you believe are not good for your hand. After you made up your mind you go to the next step. The machine will replace the cards you have just discarded with other ones and you will get your winnings according to your hand value.

Video poker gives players other options, for example you can double your money. How can you do that? Pay attention: after you won a hand and you feel lucky you have the chance to double your money in the next round. If you don’t want to do that just press on the button that says “Collect” and go on with the next round. How does the doubling round work? Well the machine will show you all the cards facing down but one. You have to place your bet and try to guess if the next card that the machines turns over is high or low. If you guess right and the next card turned over is indeed lower than the first one, you can double your money again. If your guess is wrong you will lose your bet. If you want to double your money in a doubling round click on the button “Double” and hope that your guess will be right There is one situations where no one loses or wins anything; and this happens if the next card is the same with the first one.

In case you haven’t tried this exciting game, you should join now the thousands and thousands of video poker fans from all over this beautiful planet of ours, because you are depriving yourself of real gambling excitement and pleasure. And for all the beginners out there here are some important tips: first of all never but I mean never in any circumstances keep a kicker if you have a pair. Video poker lovers say that this is a fundamental rule, and if you obey it you will be for sure on the road to success. The second tip always bet the maximum amount of coins allowed: this action would increase your chances of winning.

Now that you know all of this, run out there and play some video poker.