Electronic Poker is a popular game that can be enjoyed in casinos throughout the world, or alternatively at home on your computer, through an Internet account. The game rules are very simple and involve the player attempting to get the highest mixture of cards possible in order to win money. In this respect it’s much the same as a classic game of poker, without the involvement with competing players. Of course, tactics used in a real-life game of poker, like tricking, will be useless here.

The game of Video Poker starts when the bettor puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and pushes the play button. A hand of five cards will be "handed out" on the screen.

The Electronic Poker game also has hold buttons, and players should now choose which cards to hold and which to discard. 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 amount of cards they want, from all to none.

After the bettor has chosen which cards he wishes to keep, they should press ‘draw’, at which point any fresh cards are needed they will be handed out. The hand is now completed, with the Video Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the pay out schedule.

Generally, the minimum winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money increasing for each better hand. A common list of winning hands begins with jacks or better, moving on to 2 pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It is obvious that the payment schedule can range from game to game, so that experienced players are agile enough to choose the most money-making machine every instance.

After the first round has played out, the player can either decide to continue on and try to to increase their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any money that might have been won. Additionally, several versions of the game give the gambler an opportunity to double their profits, in which case a further hand is played. There are also variations between individual machines, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other differing elements to increase playability.