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Electronic Poker is a beloved game that can be enjoyed in casinos all over the world, or in your house on your PC, using a net connection. The regulations are very straightforward and involve the player attempting to achieve the greatest mixture of cards as you can in order to acquire cash. In this respect it’s much the same as a classic game of poker, minus the involvement with competing players. Of course, techniques employed during a real-life game of poker, such as tricking, will be useless here.

The game of Electronic Poker starts when the gambler inserts credits (whether it’s tokens, credit slips or cash) into the machine and pushes the play button. A 5 card hand will then be "given out" on the screen.

The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and bettors should now pick which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the gambler 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 enthusiast has selected which cards he or she would like to keep, they should press ‘deal’, at which point any fresh cards are needed they will be dealt. The hand is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the payout schedule.

Generally, the minimum succeeding 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, 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 payment schedule can range from machine to machine, so that skillful gamblers are able to pick the most beneficial game every time.

Once the first round has played out, the player can either decide to stay on and try to to increase their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that they may have won. Additionally, some styles of the game allow the player an opportunity to increase their wins, in which case another hand is played. There are also variations between specific machines, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other differing characteristics to enhance playability.