Electronic Poker is a popular game that usually will be bet on in casinos throughout the globe, or in your house on your PC, using a web account. The game rules are very straightforward and involve the player trying to get the highest mixture of cards as you can in order to come away with cash. In this respect it’s much the same as a regular game of poker, minus the line of contact with any other players. Of course, methods used in a real-life game of poker, such as tricking, will be irrelevant in Video Poker.

The game of Video Poker begins when the player puts credits (either tokens, tickets or money) into the machine and pushes the play button. A hand of 5 cards will then be "distributed" on the video screen.

The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and enthusiasts should now pick which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the enthusiast wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they wish, from all to none.

After the enthusiast has selected which cards she would like to keep, they should press ‘draw’, which will mean that any fresh cards are needed they will be handed out. The round is now completed, with the Video Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands printed on the payout schedule.

Typically, the lowest succeeding 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, moving on to two pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It should be known that the payment schedule can change from game to game, so that experienced gamblers are agile enough to select the most beneficial machine each and every instance.

As soon as the first round has completed, the player can either decide to remain on and try to to increase their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that might been won. Further, several versions of the game give the player an opportunity to double their wins, in which situation another round is played. There are also differences between individual games, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other differing aspects to enhance playability.