Video Poker is a favored game that is able to be wagered on in casinos throughout the globe, or in your house on your personal computer, through a net account. The regulations are very simple and involve the player trying to achieve the best assemblage of cards possible in order to acquire money. In this respect it is very similar as a classic game of poker, minus the interaction with other players. Of course, methods employed during a physical game of poker, such as bluffing, will be useless here.

The game of Electronic Poker starts when the enthusiast puts credits (whether it is tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and presses the play button. A five card hand will then be "handed out" on the video screen.

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

After the enthusiast has decided on which cards she would like to keep, the player will then press ‘draw’, which will mean that any new cards will be needed they will be dealt. The hand is now finished, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands printed on the payout schedule.

Typically, the lowest winning 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 begins with jacks or better, and moves on to two pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It definitely goes without saying that the payout schedule can range from machine to machine, so that experienced enthusiasts are agile enough to pick the most profitable game each time.

As soon as the first round has completed, the player can either decide to continue on and try to to maximize their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any credits that they may have won. Additionally, a few versions of the game give the player a chance to double their winnings, in which instance a further game is played. There are also variations between specific games, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other differing elements to enhance playability.