Electronic Poker is a favored game that can be enjoyed in casinos around the globe, or in your house on your home computer, through an Internet connection. The rules are absolutely simple and consist of the player attempting to get the best combination of cards as you can in order to come away with cash. On this account it is much the same as a regular game of poker, minus the line of contact with competing players. Of course, methods used in a real-life game of poker, like tricking, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Video Poker starts when the bettor puts credits (whether it’s tokens, tickets or money) into the machine and presses the draw button. A hand of five cards will be "dealt" on the video screen.

The Video Poker game also has hold buttons, and gamblers will need to now choose which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the gambler would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons need to 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 player has decided on which cards he or she wishes to keep, they should press ‘deal’, at which point any fresh cards will be handed out if desired. The game is now finished, with the Video Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the payment schedule.

Generally, the minimum succeeding hand on an Electronic 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, four of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It should be known that the payout schedule can range from game to game, so that knowledgeable bettors are agile enough to pick the most profitable game each instance.

Once the first round has completed, the player can either choose to stay on and try to to increase their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that has been won. Further, some versions of the game give the gambler a chance to increase their winnings, in which instance a further round is played. There are also differences between individual games, with some virtual decks including wild cards and other varying aspects to increase playability.