Electronic Poker is a popular game that can be wagered on in casinos all over the globe, or alternatively at your house on your home computer, using a net account. The rules are absolutely simple and consist of the player attempting to get the best combination of cards as you can in order to come away with cash. In this respect it’s much the same as a regular game of poker, without the line of contact with any other players. Of course, methods used in a real-life game of poker, such as tricking, will be irrelevant in Video Poker.

The game of Video Poker starts when the gambler inserts credits (whether it’s tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and presses the play button. A hand of 5 cards will be "dealt" on the video screen.

The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and players will need to now choose which cards to hold and which to throw away. For the cards the enthusiast wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they want, whether it is all or none.

After the player has selected which cards he wishes to retain, they should press ‘draw’, at which point any new cards will be dealt if desired. The round is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands printed on the payout schedule.

Generally, the minimum succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money increasing for each and every better hand. A list of common winning hands begins 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 is obvious that the payout schedule can range from game to game, so that discerning gamblers are agile enough to pick the most beneficial machine each time.

Once the first round has finished, the player can either choose to remain on in an attempt to increase their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any cash that might have been won. Further, some versions of the game give the gambler a chance to double their winnings, in which case another game is played. There are also variations among individual games, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other differing elements to increase playability.