Electronic Poker is a favored game that can be bet on in casinos all over the globe, or alternatively at your house on your home computer, through a web account. The regulations are very simple and involve the player trying to achieve the greatest combination of cards possible in order to acquire cash. In this respect it’s very similar as a classic game of poker, minus the interaction with any other players. Of course, tactics used in a physical game of poker, like tricking, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Video Poker starts when the player puts credits (either tokens, tickets or money) into the machine and presses the deal button. A 5 card hand will then be electronically ‘distributed’ on the screen.

The Electronic Poker game also has hold buttons, 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 light up. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they wish, whether it is all or none.

After the enthusiast has selected which cards he would like to retain, the player will then press ‘draw’, which will mean that any fresh cards are handed out if desired. The round is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the payment schedule.

Generally, the minimum winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money growing for each better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, and moves on to 2 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 change from game to game, so that discerning enthusiasts are agile enough to pick the most money-making ones each and every instance.

As soon as the first round has finished, the player can either choose to remain on in an attempt to increase their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that might have been won. Further, several versions of the game give the bettor an opportunity to increase their wins, in which instance a further hand is played. There are also differences between individual machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other differing aspects to increase playability.