Electronic Poker is a favored game that is able to be played in casinos throughout the world, or in your house on your computer, through an Internet account. The rules are absolutely simple and involve the player trying to get the best mixture of cards as you can in order to acquire money. On this account it is much the same as a regular game of poker, minus the interaction with any other players. Of course, techniques used in a real-life game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.

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

The Video Poker machine also has hold buttons, and enthusiasts should now decide which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the enthusiast would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they wish, whether it is all or none.

After the gambler has selected which cards he wishes to retain, they should press ‘draw’, at which point any fresh cards will be handed out if desired. The game is now finished, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands shown on the payout schedule.

Typically, the lowest winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money growing for each better hand. A list of common winning hands begins 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 last but not least royal flushes. It goes without saying that the pay out schedule can change from game to game, so that experienced bettors are able to choose the most money-making machine each time.

As soon as the initial round has completed, the player can either decide to continue on and try to to increase their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any cash that they may have won. Further, some styles of the game allow the gambler an opportunity to double their profits, in which case a further hand is played. There are also differences among specific machines, with some virtual decks including wild cards and other differing elements to increase playability.