Electronic Poker is a beloved game that is able to be gambled on in casinos across the globe, or in your house on your PC, using a net account. The rules are very simple and involve the player attempting to achieve the best mixture of cards possible in order to acquire cash. In this respect it’s very similar as a classic game of poker, minus the involvement with any other players. Of course, methods used in a real-life game of poker, such as tricking, will be useless here.

The game of Electronic Poker begins when the enthusiast puts credits (either tokens, tickets or cash) into the machine and pushes the deal button. A hand of 5 cards will be "handed out" on the screen.

The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and bettors will need to now pick which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the bettor would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they wish, from all to none.

After the bettor has chosen which cards he would like to keep, the player will then press ‘deal’, at which point any fresh cards will be given out if desired. The hand is now finished, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands printed on the pay out schedule.

Generally, the lowest winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money increasing for each and every better hand. A list of common winning hands begins 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 pay out schedule can range from game to game, so that experienced enthusiasts are agile enough to pick the most money-making game each time.

As soon as the initial round has finished, the player can either choose 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, some styles of the game allow the enthusiast an opportunity to increase their wins, in which instance a further round is played. There are also variations between specific games, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other differing elements to increase playability.