Video Poker is a popular game that is able to be enjoyed in casinos around the globe, or in your house on your PC, through a net connection. The regulations are absolutely straightforward and consist of the player attempting to get the greatest mixture of cards as you can in order to win cash. In this respect it is very similar as a regular game of poker, apart from the line of contact with any other players. Of course, methods employed during a physical game of poker, like tricking, will be irrelevant here.

The game of Electronic Poker starts when the player puts credits (either tokens, tickets or money) into the video poker machine and presses the play button. A 5 card hand will be "handed out" on the video screen.

The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and gamblers will need to now choose which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the enthusiast wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they want, whether it’s all or none.

After the enthusiast has selected which cards he or she wishes to keep, they should press ‘deal’, which will mean that any fresh cards will be dealt if desired. The round is now completed, with the Video Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the pay out schedule.

Generally, the lowest winning hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money getting larger for each and every better hand. A common list of winning hands begins with jacks or better, moving on to two pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It definitely goes without saying that the payout schedule can range from game to game, so that discerning bettors are able to pick the most profitable game each time.

Once the initial round has completed, the player can either choose to stay on in an attempt to maximize their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any credits that might been won. Further, several styles of the game give the bettor an opportunity to double their profits, in which situation a further game is played. There are also differences between individual games, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying elements to increase playability.