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Electronic Poker is a favored game that is able to be played in casinos across the globe, or in your house on your personal computer, through an Internet account. The game rules are absolutely simple and consist of the player attempting to achieve the greatest mixture of cards as you can in order to win money. On this account it’s much the same as a classic game of poker, without the interaction with competing players. Of course, methods used in a physical game of poker, like tricking, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Video Poker begins when the player inserts credits (whether it’s tokens, credit slips or cash) into the machine and presses the deal button. A 5 card hand will be electronically ‘given out’ on the screen.

The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and enthusiasts should now decide which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the player would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they want, whether it’s all or none.

After the player has selected which cards she wishes to retain, they should press ‘draw’, at which point any fresh cards will be needed they will be handed out. The hand is now completed, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands printed on the payment schedule.

Generally, the minimum winning hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money growing for each and every better hand. A common list of winning hands begins with jacks or better, and moves on to 2 pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It goes without saying that the payment schedule can vary from game to game, so that skillful enthusiasts are agile enough to choose the most money-making machine each and every instance.

As soon as the initial round has finished, the player can either choose to stay on in an attempt to maximize their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that they may have won. Additionally, some versions of the game allow the gambler an opportunity to double their wins, in which situation another hand is played. There are also variations between individual machines, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other differing elements to enhance playability.