Electronic Poker is a popular game that can be enjoyed in casinos all over the world, or in your house on your PC, using a net connection. The regulations are absolutely simple and involve the player attempting to achieve the best assemblage of cards possible in order to come away with money. In this respect it is much the same as a regular game of poker, minus the involvement with any other players. Of course, techniques employed during a physical game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Video Poker starts when the gambler inserts credits (whether it is tokens, credit slips or money) into the machine and pushes the play button. A five card hand will be electronically ‘distributed’ on the video screen.

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

After the enthusiast has selected which cards he would like to keep, they should press ‘draw’, at which point any fresh cards will be given out if desired. The hand is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands shown on the payout schedule.

Normally, the lowest succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money increasing for each better hand. A list of common winning hands starts 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 finally royal flushes. It goes without saying that the payment schedule can vary from game to game, so that skillful gamblers are able to choose the most profitable game every instance.

Once the initial round has completed, the player can either choose to stay on in an attempt to maximize their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that they may have won. Additionally, some versions of the game give the player a chance to increase their profits, in which situation another hand is played. There are also variations among specific machines, with some virtual decks including wild cards and other differing aspects to increase playability.