Electronic Poker is a favored game that usually will be enjoyed in casinos throughout the globe, or alternatively at your house on your PC, through a web connection. The rules are absolutely straightforward and involve the player attempting to achieve the best combination of cards possible in order to win money. In this respect it’s much the same as a normal game of poker, minus the involvement with any other players. Of course, tactics used in a physical game of poker, like tricking, will be irrelevant in Video Poker.

The game of Video Poker begins when the gambler inserts credits (either tokens, tickets or money) into the video poker machine and pushes the draw button. A 5 card hand will be electronically ‘distributed’ on the video screen.

The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and players should now pick which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the gambler wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any amount of cards they want, from all to none.

After the player has chosen which cards he wishes to keep, they should press ‘deal’, which will mean that any fresh cards will be needed they will be handed out. The hand is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the pay out schedule.

Typically, the lowest succeeding 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, moving on to 2 pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It definitely goes without saying that the payment schedule can vary from machine to machine, so that experienced players are agile enough to choose the most money-making game each time.

After the first round has played out, the player can either decide to continue on and try to to maximize their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any cash that might have been won. Further, some versions of the game allow the player a chance to double their winnings, in which instance another round is played. There are also variations between individual machines, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other differing aspects to enhance playability.