Electronic Poker is a beloved game that can be wagered on in casinos around the world, or in your house on your personal computer, through an Internet connection. The rules are absolutely simple and involve the player attempting to achieve the best mixture of cards as you can in order to come away with money. In this respect it is much the same as a classic game of poker, without the line of contact with other players. Of course, tactics used in a physical game of poker, such as tricking, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Video Poker begins when the bettor inserts credits (either tokens, tickets or money) into the video poker machine and pushes the play button. A hand of 5 cards will be "given out" on the video screen.

The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and gamblers should now choose which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the enthusiast would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they want, whether it’s all or none.

After the gambler has selected which cards he wishes to keep, they should press ‘deal’, which will mean that any new cards will be needed they will be given out. The round is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands printed on the pay out schedule.

Typically, the minimum succeeding 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 starts with jacks or better, moving on to 2 pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It is obvious that the payment schedule can range from machine to machine, so that knowledgeable players are able to select the most profitable ones each and every time.

As soon as the initial round has completed, the player can either choose to remain on in an attempt to maximize their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that they may have won. Additionally, several styles of the game allow the gambler an opportunity to double their winnings, in which instance a further game is played. There are also differences between individual games, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying characteristics to enhance playability.