Playing Video Poker With Credits

Create your own banking account. Provide yourself with immediate access to a line of credit... one which comes out of your pocket prior to the beginning of play. Thankfully if you are playing at an online casino, you don't have to deal with touching coins and feeding the machine. Most people hate having messy, dirty, even filthy hands, so if you play at a physical casino, then don't touch the coins. Play with credits instead.

Even though an experienced coin feeder can load five coins into the machine in three or four seconds, the machine can play five credits in less than one.

So, there are two reasons to play with credits. One, because you don't want to be handling those dirty coins all the time. Two, because you can play faster.

Instead of purchasing coins to play, which was the only option for many years, you can now play with currency. Simply slip your $5 bill, or $10 or $20, into the bill feeder which is always prominently displayed somewhere on the front or side of the machine. The computer will read the currency and load up your account with whatever credits are appropriate. If, for example, you insert $20 and it's a nickel machine, the computer will post 400 credits. The same $20 in a quarter machine would buy you 80 credits, for dollars it would register 20 credits. You are establishing a bank account from which you may make withdrawals and into which you can make deposits.

Every time you play a game (hand of poker) the computer will withdraw whatever coins you want to play. If you tell it to play one coin on each hand, one coin will be deducted prior to each new deal. Same holds true if you decide to play one credit this hand, four the next, and then three after that. And every time you register a winning hand, the computer will add the appropriate amount to your account.

Want to know how your fellow gamblers are faring? Check out their credits. These days most everybody plays with credits instead of coins. Even those people who begin with coins usually make the switch after their original stake has been deposited. For example, you purchase $20 in quarters. You insert all eighty of them into the machine. Those coins may produce hundreds or thousands of credits, or they may produce none, but usually it's somewhere in between.

So after all the coins are in, you continue to play, but instead of purchasing more coins or cashing out, you utilize the credits which are in your "account".