Electronic Poker is a popular game that is able to be played in casinos throughout the world, or in your house on your personal computer, using a web account. The regulations are absolutely straightforward and involve the player trying to get the highest combination of cards possible in order to come away with cash. On this account it is much the same as a classic game of poker, apart from the involvement with competing players. Of course, tactics used in a physical game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless here.

The game of Electronic Poker begins when the enthusiast inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the machine and pushes the play button. A 5 card hand will then be "given out" on the video screen.

The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and enthusiasts will need to now pick which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the bettor wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they wish, from all to none.

After the bettor has selected which cards he would like to keep, they should press ‘deal’, at which point any fresh cards will be needed they will be dealt. The hand 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 pay out schedule.

Normally, the minimum winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money getting larger for each and every 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, four of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It is obvious that the pay out schedule can change from game to game, so that experienced enthusiasts are agile enough to choose the most profitable machine each and every time.

Once the first round has played out, the player can either choose to stay on and try to to increase their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any credits that might been won. Further, several styles of the game give the player an opportunity to double their winnings, in which case a further round is played. There are also variations among individual games, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying aspects to enhance playability.