Video Poker is a favored game that usually will be wagered on in casinos all over the globe, or in your house on your PC, using an Internet account. The rules are absolutely straightforward and involve the player attempting to achieve the highest assemblage of cards possible in order to win money. In this respect it is much the same as a normal game of poker, apart from the interaction with competing players. Of course, methods employed during a physical game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless here.

The game of Electronic Poker starts when the bettor inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and presses the draw button. A five card hand will then be electronically ‘given out’ on the video screen.

The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and gamblers should now pick which cards to hold and which to throw away. For the cards the enthusiast wishes to retain, 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 bettor has decided on which cards he would like to keep, the player will then press ‘draw’, at which point any new cards will be needed they will be handed out. The round is now finished, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the payout schedule.

Generally, the lowest succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money growing for each and every better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving 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 goes without saying that the payment schedule can change from game to game, so that experienced players are able to pick the most money-making machine each and every instance.

After the first round has completed, the player can either choose to remain on in an attempt to maximize their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any cash that they may have won. Further, several versions of the game allow the gambler a chance to double their winnings, in which situation another game is played. There are also differences between specific games, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other varying aspects to enhance playability.