Video Poker
By: George Schmingy
If there are two pastimes that can boast a long standing popularity on the internet, they are online casinos and poker. Actually if we’re being honest, poker has really come into its own over the past five years and before that was not really too popular anywhere, but there have always been poker sites available on the web in one form or another. The type of poker with the longest history in cyber space, and thus neatly tied in to both pursuits, is online video poker. These video terminals have long been popular in land based casinos as well as in bingo halls, sports bars, and nightclubs, and it was a relatively east matter for many sites to include a video display based gambling game on their own sites. Let’s take a quick look at a few places online where you might find video poker games.
- Online casinos. This is probably the most obvious place on the internet to find video poker games. Like their land based predecessors, online casinos love the house edge and the addictive aspects of video card games, and video poker has always been among the favorites here. There are several different variations on the card game at any online casino; in fact some of the bigger ones offer dozens of different video terminals to select from.
- Online bingo halls. This is a place where you might not expect to find cards other than the ones used to play bingo, but like many land based bingo halls online versions have recognized that every once in a while their loyal players need a break from card daubing. They supply alternative entertainment, and usually there are a couple of video poker terminals among the selection of popular casino games.
- Poker websites. While you are almost sure to come across video poker at an online casino or bingo hall, you are much less likely to find a video terminal at a poker website. For the most part, these sites really focus on the card game or variations of the game itself, concentrating on setting up human players for their matches. Still, there is the odd site that will offer versions of video poker for those who want to take a break from the poker room experience.
Those are a few of the sites we could think of where you will find video poker if that’s what you are in the mood to play. Of course there are probably dozens of other different types of sites you can think of, and if you come across online video poker in a spot you weren’t expecting it, we’d love to hear about it!