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Electronic Poker is a popular game that can be played in casinos around the world, or in your house on your home computer, through a web account. The rules are absolutely simple and involve the player attempting to achieve the highest mixture of cards possible in order to acquire cash. On this account it is very similar as a normal game of poker, minus the involvement with any other players. Of course, techniques employed during a physical game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless here.

The game of Electronic Poker starts when the enthusiast puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and presses the draw button. A hand of 5 cards will be "handed out" on the video screen.

The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and players will need to now decide which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the enthusiast wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they wish, whether it is all or none.

After the enthusiast has selected which cards she would like to keep, they should press ‘deal’, which will mean that any fresh cards are needed they will be given out. The game is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands printed on the payment schedule.

Normally, the lowest succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money growing for each better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, and moves on to 2 pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It definitely goes without saying that the pay out schedule can vary from game to game, so that discerning gamblers are able to select the most money-making game each and every time.

After the first round has finished, the player can either choose to stay on and try to to maximize their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any credits that have been won. Additionally, some styles of the game allow the enthusiast an opportunity to increase their winnings, in which case a further game is played. There are also differences among individual games, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other varying aspects to increase playability.