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Video Poker Rules to Make You a Champ
There are very few people that do not know how to play poker. In fact, it is one of the most popular games in the casino. Poker is a card game and one that is played at a table or on a machine. Video Poker Rules are much the same as poker, only it is being played on a machine.
How to Play Video Poker
Video poker is played by the player manipulating buttons on the machine. The game is played with 52 cards, and the dealer is dealt his hand. The player then decides which cards he / she would like to keep, and which they would like to throw. For the cards that the player would like to keep, they simply press the hold button. When the player clicks on the draw button the cards that are not held in the hand are thrown out, and the player draws new cards.
The object of poker to get a winning hand. Poker has many winning combinations, and you must hold a combination than the machine in order to win the hand. The first thing when you will do when you play video poker is to place your bet. You will then have five cards dealt to you and from there you size up your combinations and your winning strategy. You are allowed one draw, and after that draw, the machine will show its hand, and you have won or lost your hand.
Typically, video poker works on a five coin bet system.
In poker, an Ace is the highest card you can hold. It is then followed by the king, queen and jack. You then have your number cards which are their numbered value.
Hand Ranks
The lowest hand in poker is termed a pair and is a pair of cards whose value is the same.
Two pair is next and is two sets of two cards with the same value.
Three of a kind is next and is three cards that hold the same value.
A Straight is next and is a hand that is made up of five cards of consecutive value, but, are not the same suit.
Five cards of the same suit but are not of consecutive values are called a Flush. For instance, a two of clubs, a ten of clubs, a King of clubs, a three of clubs and an eight of clubs.
Three cards of the same kind and a pair of the same kind make a Full House. For instance, three of the cards could be threes and the other two cards, twos.
The next highest hand in poker is four cards whose value is the same.
Five consecutive cards whose suit is the same, but does not contain an ace in the hand is called a Straight.
The highest hand in poker is composed of the five highest cards in the deck, which consist of the ten, Jack, Queen King, and Ace, that are of the same suit and called a Royal Flush.
Is Red A Winning Name?
If I was fortunate enough to own my own race horse I think I would do worse than to give him a name that contained ‘Red’ within it! Why you may ask? There was after all only one Red Rum, and as renowned as he is, there is unlikely to be another like him – he truly was one in a million. But there are other Reds who have also done well.
Red Splash was the first ever horse to win the Cheltenham Festival Gold Cup in 1924, even though he was not even yet the modern day prerequisite five years old. Aside from his jumping, which was considered to be extraordinarily good, he was admired for staying on so resolutely, given that he was sharply tackled by Conjuror II on the tiring bit of rising ground that tends to defeat a lot of Gold Cup competitors. Unfortunately his success of 1924 was never to be repeated and even though there were grand hopes for him with the National, it was never to be.
Another Red that did well was Red Alligator, who was the comfortable winner of the 1968 Grand National, winning by twenty lengths just as his half-brother Anglo had done two years beforehand. In winning, Red Alligator provided the first of three National-winning rides for his twenty year old jockey Brian Fletcher. Red Alligator was bred by William Kennedy near Downpatrick in Northern Ireland. Sired by Magic Red, he was out of Miss Alligator who had finished sixth in the 1949 Oaks and still had been sold for only seventy guineas at the Dublin sales in 1952. Miss Alligator became only the second mare to produce two Grand National winners, the first of which was Miss Batty, dam of Emblem and Emblematic. Unfortunately for Mr Kennedy he made no profit from breeding two National winners – he sold Anglo for £140 when he was still a foal and sold Red Alligator at the yearling sales for 340 guineas. Eventually trained by Denys Smith, it was soon realised that Red Alligator was both a sound steeplechase jumper and stayer, which was clear to see in the 1967 National, where after a mass disaster at the twenty-third, he was put back three times at the fence before giving chase so well that he finished third. Red Alligator won eleven chases but saddled with an extra thirteen pounds following his glorious 1968 Grand National victory, he never came close to winning the race again.
Red Marauder was another Red to win the National, a 33-1 shot who was one of only four of forty runners to complete the course, two of those having been remounted. His rider, Richard Guest, afterwards stated that he was ‘probably the worst jumper ever to win a National’. This may well have been true as prior to the race the Jockey Clubs safety panel put him under extensive scrutiny, and he only won acceptance to the race on a casting vote – see, there just might be something in the name Red!!