Video poker is a game that was added to the slot machines layout and that brought a new type of Casino players to the slots machines area. One of the incentives of the Casinos operators of the time to bring the slot machines in was the persons accompanying the gamblers on the table games. When the slot machines where introduced the wife’s, girlfriends and the not so adventurous part of the gang found an oasis inside of the Casino, with the introduction of the video poker machines a new type of gambler was brought to the machines, the poker inclined gamblers started to come to the machines, mainly attracted for the easy of play, the payouts and the simplicity of the game.

There is a great deal of variation on the basic Video Poker game, in order to understand such a diverse ecosystem, it’s very important to create categories that allow us to understand the game and its variations. First of all the basic reason for the variations is the platform of the game, which is based on a the five cards draw, with serves the players with a deck of 5 cards and from there it could choose how many cards to discard of how many to keep, that platform gives the designers the ability to create variations of the game in various forms, changing the quantity of cards, changing the odds or introducing bonuses or wild cards to the game, also the progressive video poker that is a accumulating jackpot sometimes available on a single machine or on other times available thought different machines.

One of the basic divisions of the game is based on the odds paid, it usually depend on the location of the machine and how many are in close proximity, also how much does the normal player would pay and how much the usual players, this will help the operator configure the payout tables of the machine to the best level of profit / hurting of the customer.