Video Poker is a beloved game that usually will be enjoyed in casinos all over the world, or alternatively at your house on your PC, using an Internet account. The rules are absolutely simple and consist of the player attempting to get the greatest assemblage of cards as you can in order to acquire money. In this respect it’s very similar as a classic game of poker, apart from the interaction with any other players. Of course, methods employed during a real-life game of poker, such as tricking, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Electronic Poker starts when the gambler puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and pushes the draw button. A 5 card hand will then be "handed out" on the screen.

The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and players should now decide which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the gambler would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they want, from all to none.

After the gambler has decided on which cards she wishes to keep, they should press ‘draw’, which will mean that any new cards will be given out if desired. The hand is now finished, with the Video Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands shown on the payment schedule.

Typically, the lowest succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money increasing for each and every better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to two pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It goes without saying that the pay out schedule can change from machine to machine, so that knowledgeable players are agile enough to choose the most money-making machine each instance.

After the first round has completed, the player can either choose to remain on and try to to maximize their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any cash that they may have won. Further, some styles of the game allow the gambler an opportunity to increase their profits, in which situation a further round is played. There are also differences among specific machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other differing characteristics to enhance playability.