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Electronic Poker is a favored game that usually will be bet on in casinos throughout the world, or in your house on your PC, using a web account. The game rules are absolutely simple and consist of the player attempting to get the best combination of cards achievable in order to acquire cash. In this respect it is very similar as a classic game of poker, apart from the involvement with competing players. Of course, techniques employed during a physical game of poker, such as tricking, will be irrelevant here.

The game of Video Poker begins when the bettor puts credits (either tokens, tickets or money) into the machine and pushes the draw button. A five card hand will then be "dealt" on the screen.

The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and players will need to now decide which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the bettor would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they wish, from all to none.

After the gambler has selected which cards he or she would like to keep, the player will then press ‘deal’, at which point any new cards are needed they will be handed out. The hand is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the pay out schedule.

Normally, the lowest succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money increasing for each better hand. A list of common winning hands begins with jacks or better, and moves on to two pairs, three 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 range from machine to machine, so that skillful players are agile enough to choose the most profitable machine each and every instance.

After the first round has completed, the player can either choose to remain on and try to to increase their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that have been won. Additionally, a few styles of the game give the player an opportunity to increase their wins, in which situation a further game is played. There are also variations among specific machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying aspects to enhance playability.