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Electronic Poker is a beloved game that usually will be wagered on in casinos around the globe, or alternatively at your house on your PC, through a net account. The rules are absolutely straightforward and consist of the player trying to achieve the highest mixture of cards as you can in order to come away with money. In this respect it’s very similar as a regular game of poker, minus the interaction with any other players. Of course, tactics used in a physical game of poker, like tricking, will be irrelevant here.

The game of Electronic Poker begins when the gambler puts credits (whether it’s tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and pushes the draw button. A 5 card hand will be "dealt" on the video screen.

The Electronic Poker game also has hold buttons, and gamblers should now choose which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the gambler would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons should 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 enthusiast has decided on which cards she would like to keep, they should press ‘draw’, which will mean that any new cards will be needed they will be dealt. The game is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands shown on the pay out schedule.

Typically, the lowest winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money getting larger for each better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, and moves on to two 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 pay out schedule can vary from machine to machine, so that skillful enthusiasts are agile enough to pick the most profitable ones each and every instance.

As soon as the first round has finished, the player can either choose to stay on in an attempt to maximize their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that they may have won. Additionally, some styles of the game give the player an opportunity to increase their winnings, in which instance a further game is played. There are also differences between specific machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other differing characteristics to enhance playability.