Video Poker is a favored game that is able to be gambled on in casinos throughout the globe, or in your house on your personal computer, through a net account. The rules are absolutely simple and involve the player attempting to get the highest combination of cards achievable in order to come away with money. On this account it’s very similar as a regular game of poker, without the involvement with competing players. Of course, methods used in a physical game of poker, such as bluffing, will be irrelevant in Video Poker.

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

The Video Poker machine also has hold buttons, and bettors will need to now decide which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the bettor wishes to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they want, from all to none.

After the bettor has decided on which cards he wishes to keep, they should press ‘deal’, which will mean that any fresh cards will be given out if desired. The round is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands shown on the payout 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 two pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It definitely goes without saying that the payout schedule can change from machine to machine, so that skillful gamblers are agile enough to select the most money-making machine each instance.

As soon as the initial round has completed, the player can either decide to continue on and try to to increase their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that they may have won. Further, a few styles of the game allow the player an opportunity to double their winnings, in which instance another game is played. There are also differences between individual games, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other differing characteristics to increase playability.