Electronic Poker is a favored game that is able to be wagered on in casinos all over the world, or alternatively at your house on your PC, through an Internet account. The regulations are absolutely straightforward and involve the player trying to get the best assemblage of cards achievable in order to win money. On this account it’s much the same as a normal game of poker, without the line of contact with other players. Of course, techniques used in a physical game of poker, like bluffing, will be irrelevant here.

The game of Electronic Poker starts when the player puts credits (whether it’s tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and presses the draw button. A 5 card hand will be electronically ‘given out’ on the screen.

The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and players will need to now choose which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the player wishes to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they want, whether it is all or none.

After the player has chosen which cards he wishes to keep, they should press ‘draw’, at which point any new cards will be handed out if desired. The game is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands shown on the pay out schedule.

Typically, the minimum winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money getting larger for each better hand. A common list of winning hands begins 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 should be known that the payout schedule can vary from machine to machine, so that knowledgeable enthusiasts are able to choose the most profitable ones every time.

Once the initial round has played out, the player can either decide to stay on and try to to maximize their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that have been won. Further, a few styles of the game allow the enthusiast an opportunity to double their winnings, in which instance another hand is played. There are also variations among individual games, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other varying characteristics to increase playability.