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Video Poker is a favored game that is able to be gambled on in casinos across the world, or in your house on your home computer, using an Internet account. The rules are absolutely simple and involve the player trying to get the best combination of cards possible in order to acquire money. In this respect it is very similar as a regular game of poker, without the involvement with any other players. Of course, methods used in a real-life game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless here.

The game of Electronic Poker begins when the gambler inserts credits (whether it is tokens, tickets or cash) into the video poker machine and presses the deal button. A hand of five cards will be "dealt" on the video screen.

The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and enthusiasts should now decide which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the bettor would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they want, whether it is all or none.

After the gambler has decided on which cards she wishes to keep, the player will then press ‘deal’, at which point any fresh cards are given out if desired. The round is now completed, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the payout schedule.

Generally, 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 list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, and moves on to 2 pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It goes without saying that the payout schedule can change from game to game, so that discerning bettors are agile enough to choose the most beneficial game each time.

After the first round has completed, the player can either decide to remain on and try to to increase their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that might have been won. Further, some styles of the game give the gambler an opportunity to double their winnings, in which case another round is played. There are also variations among specific machines, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other varying aspects to increase playability.