Video Poker is a favored game that usually will be gambled on in casinos throughout the globe, or in your house on your PC, using a net account. The rules are absolutely simple and consist of the player attempting to get the greatest mixture of cards achievable in order to win money. In this respect it is very similar as a normal game of poker, without the interaction with any other players. Of course, tactics used in a real-life game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Electronic Poker begins when the bettor puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and presses the deal button. A hand of 5 cards will be "dealt" on the video screen.

The Video Poker game also has hold buttons, and bettors should now pick which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the bettor wishes to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they want, from all to none.

After the enthusiast has selected which cards he would like to keep, the player will then press ‘draw’, which will mean that any fresh cards are needed they will be handed out. The hand is now finished, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands shown on the payout schedule.

Generally, the lowest succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money getting larger for each and every better hand. A common list of winning hands begins with jacks or better, moving 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 payout schedule can change from machine to machine, so that knowledgeable bettors are agile enough to choose the most profitable machine every time.

Once the initial round has finished, the player can either decide to continue on in an attempt to maximize their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any money that has been won. Additionally, a few versions of the game give the gambler a chance to double their wins, in which case a further hand is played. There are also differences between individual games, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other differing characteristics to enhance playability.