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Video Poker is a favored game that usually will be enjoyed in casinos around the world, or alternatively at home on your computer, using a net connection. The rules are absolutely straightforward and involve the player attempting to achieve the highest assemblage of cards possible in order to acquire money. In this respect it’s very similar as a normal game of poker, apart from 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 bettor inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and pushes the draw button. A hand of 5 cards will be electronically ‘dealt’ on the screen.

The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and enthusiasts will need to now choose which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the gambler would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any amount of cards they wish, whether it is all or none.

After the enthusiast has chosen which cards he or she would like to keep, they should press ‘deal’, which will mean that any new cards are dealt if desired. The hand is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands shown on the payment schedule.

Normally, the minimum succeeding hand on a Video 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 2 pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It definitely goes without saying that the pay out schedule can range from game to game, so that experienced enthusiasts are agile enough to choose the most beneficial ones every instance.

As soon as the first round has finished, the player can either decide to stay on and try to to increase their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that they may have won. Additionally, some styles of the game give the enthusiast an opportunity to increase their winnings, in which situation a further game is played. There are also differences among specific machines, with some virtual decks including wild cards and other differing characteristics to increase playability.