Video Poker is a popular game that is able to be enjoyed in casinos across the globe, or alternatively at home on your computer, through a net account. The regulations are absolutely straightforward and involve the player trying to get the greatest combination of cards as you can in order to acquire cash. On this account it is very similar as a regular game of poker, minus the line of contact with competing players. Of course, tactics used in a physical game of poker, such as tricking, will be irrelevant in Video Poker.

The game of Electronic Poker starts when the player puts credits (whether it’s tokens, credit slips or cash) into the machine and presses the draw button. A 5 card hand will be "given out" on the video screen.

The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and players will need to now decide which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the gambler would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they wish, whether it is all or none.

After the gambler has decided on which cards he or she wishes to keep, the player will then press ‘draw’, which will mean that any fresh cards will be needed they will be handed out. The hand is now finished, with the Video Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands shown on the payout schedule.

Typically, the lowest winning hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money getting larger for each and every better hand. A common list of winning hands begins with jacks or better, and moves on to 2 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 pay out schedule can change from machine to machine, so that knowledgeable enthusiasts are agile enough to choose the most money-making machine every time.

As soon as the initial round has played out, the player can either decide to stay on and try to to maximize their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that they may have won. Further, some styles of the game give the enthusiast a chance to double their winnings, in which situation a further round is played. There are also variations between specific machines, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other varying elements to enhance playability.