Electronic Poker is a popular game that can be gambled on in casinos all over the globe, or in your house on your home computer, through a web connection. The regulations are absolutely straightforward and consist of the player attempting to achieve the best mixture of cards possible in order to win cash. On this account it is much the same as a classic game of poker, without the involvement with other players. Of course, techniques used in a real-life game of poker, like tricking, will be irrelevant in Video Poker.

The game of Video Poker begins when the bettor inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and pushes the deal button. A five card hand will then be electronically ‘dealt’ on the screen.

The Electronic Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and enthusiasts should now decide which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the bettor wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they wish, whether it is all or none.

After the player has chosen which cards he or she would like to keep, they should press ‘deal’, at which point any new cards will be dealt if desired. The game is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the pay out schedule.

Typically, the lowest succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money getting larger for each better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, and moves on to two pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It definitely goes without saying that the payment schedule can change from machine to machine, so that discerning players are able to select the most money-making machine each instance.

After the first round has completed, the player can either decide to continue on and try to to maximize their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any cash that might have been won. Further, some versions of the game give the bettor an opportunity to increase their winnings, in which instance a further hand is played. There are also differences between individual machines, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other varying characteristics to enhance playability.