Electronic Poker is a popular game that is able to be played in casinos throughout the globe, or alternatively at your house on your personal computer, through a net connection. The rules are absolutely simple and involve the player attempting to get the best mixture of cards achievable in order to come away with cash. In this respect it is very similar as a regular game of poker, minus the interaction with competing players. Of course, tactics employed during a physical game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless here.

The game of Electronic Poker begins when the bettor inserts credits (whether it’s tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and presses the deal button. A hand of five cards will then be "handed out" on the screen.

The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and bettors should now choose which cards to hold and which to throw away. For the cards the player wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any amount of cards they want, from all to none.

After the bettor has decided on which cards he wishes to retain, they should press ‘draw’, at which point any new cards are handed out if desired. The round is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands shown on the payout schedule.

Typically, the minimum succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money growing for each and every better hand. A common list of winning hands begins with jacks or better, moving on to 2 pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It definitely goes without saying that the payout schedule can vary from machine to machine, so that discerning bettors 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 decide to remain on in an attempt to increase their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any money that might have been won. Additionally, some styles of the game allow the bettor an opportunity to increase their profits, in which case another game is played. There are also variations between specific games, with some virtual decks including wild cards and other varying aspects to increase playability.