Video Poker is a favored game that can be played in casinos across the globe, or in your house on your PC, through an Internet connection. The game rules are absolutely simple and involve the player attempting to achieve the highest mixture of cards as you can in order to win money. On this account it is much the same as a regular game of poker, minus the line of contact with other players. Of course, methods employed during a physical game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Electronic Poker starts when the gambler inserts credits (whether it is tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and pushes the draw button. A five card hand will be "given out" on the screen.

The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and bettors will need to now choose which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the bettor 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 wish, whether it’s all or none.

After the enthusiast has selected which cards she wishes to keep, the player will then press ‘deal’, which will mean that any new cards will be needed they will be handed out. The hand is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the payout schedule.

Normally, the lowest winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money getting larger for each better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to 2 pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It definitely goes without saying that the payout schedule can range from machine to machine, so that experienced players are able to select the most profitable ones each time.

Once the first round has played out, the player can either decide to stay on in an attempt to increase their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any credits that might been won. Further, several versions of the game allow the gambler a chance to increase their winnings, in which instance another game is played. There are also variations among specific games, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other varying elements to increase playability.