Electronic Poker is a popular game that usually will be wagered on in casinos all over the globe, or in your house on your home computer, through a net connection. The rules are absolutely straightforward and involve the player trying to achieve the highest mixture of cards as you can in order to acquire money. In this respect it is much the same as a regular game of poker, without the involvement with competing players. Of course, tactics employed during a real-life game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Video Poker begins when the gambler puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the machine and presses the play button. A 5 card hand will be "distributed" on the screen.

The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and enthusiasts 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 must be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they wish, from all to none.

After the gambler has chosen which cards she wishes to keep, the player will then press ‘deal’, which will mean that any fresh cards are handed out if desired. The round is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the pay out schedule.

Generally, the lowest 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 starts 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 should be known that the pay out schedule can change from game to game, so that skillful players are able to pick the most money-making ones each instance.

As soon as the initial round has played out, the player can either choose to continue on and try to to increase their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that might been won. Additionally, some styles of the game allow the bettor an opportunity to double their wins, in which case a further hand is played. There are also differences among specific machines, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other varying characteristics to increase playability.