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Video Poker is a favored game that is able to be bet on in casinos across the world, or in your house on your home computer, using a web account. The rules are absolutely straightforward and involve the player attempting to achieve the highest assemblage of cards as you can in order to acquire money. On this account it is very similar as a regular game of poker, apart from the interaction with any other players. Of course, techniques used in a real-life game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless here.

The game of Electronic Poker starts when the player puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the machine and presses the draw button. A five card hand will then be "given out" on the video screen.

The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and bettors should now choose which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the bettor wishes to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they wish, from all to none.

After the player has decided on which cards he or she would like to keep, they should press ‘draw’, at which point any new cards are needed they will be given out. The round is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the pay out schedule.

Generally, the minimum winning hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money increasing for each and every better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, and moves on to 2 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 payment schedule can change from machine to machine, so that knowledgeable enthusiasts are able to select the most profitable game each instance.

After the first round has completed, the player can either choose to continue on in an attempt to increase their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that they may have won. Further, some styles of the game allow the enthusiast an opportunity to double their profits, in which situation another game is played. There are also variations among individual games, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other differing aspects to increase playability.