Electronic Poker is a favored game that can be wagered on in casinos around the globe, or in your house on your PC, using a web account. The game rules are very straightforward and involve the player attempting to get the best combination of cards possible in order to come away with money. In this respect it is very similar as a regular game of poker, without the interaction with any other players. Of course, methods used in a physical game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless here.

The game of Electronic Poker starts when the gambler inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and pushes the play button. A five card hand will be electronically ‘handed out’ on the screen.

The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and bettors will need to now pick which cards to hold and which to throw away. For the cards the enthusiast would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they want, whether it’s all or none.

After the bettor has chosen which cards he wishes to keep, the player will then press ‘draw’, at which point any new cards are given out if desired. The round is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands printed on the payout schedule.

Typically, the lowest succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money growing for each and every better hand. A list of common winning hands begins with jacks or better, and moves on to two pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It is obvious that the payout schedule can range from game to game, so that discerning players are able to choose the most beneficial machine every time.

Once the initial round has played out, the player can either decide to continue on in an attempt to maximize their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that they may have won. Further, a few versions of the game give the enthusiast an opportunity to double their winnings, in which case another hand is played. There are also variations among specific games, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other differing elements to enhance playability.