Electronic Poker is a beloved game that can be bet on in casinos across the world, or alternatively at your house on your personal computer, using a net connection. The game rules are very straightforward and involve the player attempting to achieve the highest assemblage of cards possible in order to come away with cash. On this account it is very similar as a regular game of poker, apart from the line of contact with other players. Of course, techniques employed during a real-life game of poker, such as tricking, will be useless here.

The game of Video Poker starts when the enthusiast inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and presses the play button. A hand of five cards will be "handed out" on the video screen.

The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and gamblers will need to now decide which cards to hold and which to throw away. For the cards the player would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any amount of cards they want, whether it’s all or none.

After the player has selected which cards he would like to retain, they should press ‘draw’, which will mean that any new cards are given out if desired. The round is now finished, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the payout schedule.

Generally, the lowest winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money increasing for each better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, and moves on to two pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It should be known that the payout schedule can range from game to game, so that discerning bettors are able to pick the most profitable ones every instance.

Once the first round has played out, the player can either choose to stay on and try to to increase their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that might been won. Additionally, several styles of the game give the gambler an opportunity to double their profits, in which instance another hand is played. There are also variations between individual games, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other varying characteristics to increase playability.