Electronic Poker is a favored game that usually will be gambled on in casinos throughout the world, or in your house on your computer, using an Internet connection. The regulations are absolutely straightforward and consist of the player attempting to achieve the best combination of cards as you can in order to come away with money. In this respect it is much the same as a classic game of poker, minus the involvement with competing players. Of course, methods used in a physical game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Video Poker begins when the gambler puts credits (whether it is tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and pushes the draw button. A five card hand will then be electronically ‘distributed’ on the screen.

The Video Poker game also has hold buttons, and gamblers will need to now choose which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the gambler wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they want, whether it’s all or none.

After the player has chosen which cards he would like to keep, the player will then press ‘deal’, at which point any new cards will be needed they will be given out. The hand 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 pay out schedule.

Normally, the minimum succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money increasing for each and every better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, and moves on to 2 pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It is obvious that the pay out schedule can range from machine to machine, so that knowledgeable bettors are agile enough to pick the most profitable game every time.

After the initial round has completed, the player can either decide to continue on in an attempt to maximize their winnings, or 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 increase their wins, in which case a further game is played. There are also variations between individual machines, with some virtual decks including wild cards and other varying characteristics to increase playability.