Video Poker

Online casino video poker is a relatively modern invention, and is a merger between traditional Poker and slot machines. An online casino video poker game is a contest between you and the machine in most online casinos. There are many different varieties of online casino video poker and you can play all of them from where you are sitting now. You just download one of the free software of one of the online casinos and you will be able to enjoy online casino video poker in no time.

There are a few varieties of online casino video poker that you can play at the online casinos on this site. You can therefore enjoy hours of entertainment with the same basic principal.

There are basic hands that you can get in online casino video poker to produce different winning hands. I have listed these from the most important and highest hand to the lowest possible winning hand. All these hands are however not applicable to every Poker game around.

I would therefore like to suggest that when you start playing a particular version of online casino video poker that you first read through the help files and make sure of which hands you can win on.

The hands on which you can win in most forms of online casino video poker are:

Royal Flush
This is the highest hand in standard Poker and consists of the following cards: A K Q J 10 all of the same suit.

Straight Flush
This is a combination of five sequential cards all of the same suit.

Four of a Kind
This is a combination of four of the same cards.

Full House
This is a combination of three cards of one denomination and two cards of another denomination.

Flush
Five cards all of the same suit.

Straight
Five cards in sequence of any suit.

Three of a Kind
Three cards of the same denomination and two unmatched cards.

Two Pairs
Two different pairs and any fifth card.

A Pair
Two cards of the same denomination

The best thing you can do to familiarize yourself with Poker online is to play as a guest player first and then to play for real money should you wish to do so.