Electronic Poker is a favored game that is able to be gambled on in casinos across the globe, or alternatively at your house on your home computer, using an Internet account. The game rules are absolutely straightforward and involve the player attempting to achieve the highest combination of cards possible in order to acquire cash. In this respect it is much the same as a classic game of poker, minus the interaction with competing players. Of course, methods employed during a real-life game of poker, such as bluffing, will be irrelevant in Video Poker.

The game of Video Poker starts when the player inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and pushes the draw button. A 5 card hand will be electronically ‘given out’ on the video screen.

The Electronic Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and gamblers will need to now decide which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the bettor would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they want, from all to none.

After the player has decided on which cards she wishes to retain, the player will then press ‘draw’, at which point any fresh cards will be needed they will be given out. The hand is now finished, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands shown on the payment schedule.

Generally, the minimum winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money getting larger for each better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, and moves on to two pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It is obvious that the payout schedule can range from game to game, so that skillful gamblers are agile enough to pick the most profitable game each and every time.

As soon as the first round has played out, the player can either decide to stay on and try to to increase their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that they may have won. Further, several styles of the game give the player a chance to increase their winnings, in which case a further hand is played. There are also variations between individual machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other differing characteristics to increase playability.