Electronic Poker is a popular game that can be wagered on in casinos throughout the globe, or in your house on your home computer, through an Internet account. The regulations are very straightforward and involve the player attempting to get the best mixture of cards achievable in order to win cash. In this respect it is very similar as a normal game of poker, minus the involvement with any other players. Of course, techniques employed during a real-life game of poker, like tricking, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Video Poker starts when the bettor inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and pushes the deal button. A five card hand will then be electronically ‘distributed’ on the video screen.

The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and bettors should now decide which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the enthusiast would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any amount of cards they wish, whether it is all or none.

After the gambler has decided on which cards he would like to keep, the player will then press ‘deal’, at which point any new cards will be needed they will be dealt. The round is now finished, with the Video Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands shown on the pay out schedule.

Generally, the minimum succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money increasing for each better hand. A common list of winning hands begins with jacks or better, and moves on to 2 pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It should be known that the payment schedule can change from game to game, so that discerning enthusiasts are agile enough to choose the most profitable machine every instance.

After the initial round has played out, the player can either choose to continue on and try to to increase their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that might have been won. Additionally, some versions of the game allow the enthusiast an opportunity to double their winnings, in which situation a further round is played. There are also variations between individual games, with some virtual decks including wild cards and other varying elements to increase playability.