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Electronic Poker is a favored game that can be gambled on in casinos throughout the globe, or alternatively at your house on your PC, through an Internet connection. The rules are absolutely simple and consist of the player trying to achieve the greatest mixture of cards possible in order to acquire money. On this account it’s much the same as a regular game of poker, minus the involvement with other players. Of course, tactics used in a physical game of poker, like tricking, will be useless here.

The game of Video Poker starts when the player puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the machine and pushes the play button. A hand of five cards will be electronically ‘distributed’ on the screen.

The Video Poker game also has hold buttons, and enthusiasts should now decide which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the bettor would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons need to 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 bettor has chosen which cards he or she wishes to retain, they should press ‘deal’, at which point any new cards are needed they will be dealt. The round is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands printed on the payment schedule.

Normally, the lowest succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money growing for each and every better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to 2 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 pay out schedule can range from machine to machine, so that knowledgeable players are agile enough to select the most profitable game every time.

After the initial round has played out, the player can either decide to continue on and try to to increase their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that have been won. Additionally, several styles of the game allow the enthusiast an opportunity to double their winnings, in which instance a further round is played. There are also variations among specific machines, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other varying elements to enhance playability.