Electronic Poker is a popular game that usually will be played in casinos across the globe, or alternatively at your house on your computer, through a net account. The rules are very simple and consist of the player attempting to get the best combination of cards achievable in order to come away with cash. In this respect it’s very similar as a classic game of poker, without the involvement with other players. Of course, techniques used in a real-life game of poker, such as bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Video Poker starts when the player inserts credits (either tokens, tickets or money) into the video poker machine and pushes the draw button. A hand of five cards will be "given out" on the video screen.

The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and gamblers should now choose which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the bettor wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they want, from all to none.

After the enthusiast has chosen which cards he wishes to retain, the player will then press ‘deal’, at which point any fresh cards will be needed they will be given out. The game is now finished, with the Electronic 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 lowest succeeding hand on a Video 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, moving on to two pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It should be known that the pay out schedule can range from machine to machine, so that experienced players are agile enough to choose the most profitable machine each and every time.

Once the first round has played out, the player can either choose to stay on in an attempt to increase their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any cash that they may have won. Further, several versions of the game give the gambler an opportunity to double their winnings, in which situation a further hand is played. There are also variations among individual machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying characteristics to increase playability.