Video Poker is a popular game that usually will be bet on in casinos all over the world, or alternatively at your house on your PC, through an Internet connection. The game rules are absolutely straightforward and involve the player attempting to achieve the best mixture of cards as you can in order to come away with money. In this respect it’s much the same as a classic game of poker, minus the involvement with any other players. Of course, tactics used in a real-life game of poker, like tricking, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Electronic Poker begins when the enthusiast inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the machine and pushes the draw button. A hand of 5 cards will be electronically ‘given out’ on the screen.

The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and enthusiasts will need to now pick which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the enthusiast 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, whether it is all or none.

After the enthusiast has selected which cards he or she wishes to retain, the player will then press ‘deal’, which will mean that any new cards are given out if desired. The game is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands shown on the pay out schedule.

Normally, the lowest succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money increasing for each and every better hand. A list of common winning hands begins with jacks or better, moving on to two pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It should be known that the payment schedule can change from machine to machine, so that discerning enthusiasts are able to select the most beneficial ones each instance.

After the first round has played out, the player can either decide to stay on and try to to increase their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any cash that they may have won. Additionally, a few styles of the game allow the enthusiast an opportunity to increase their wins, in which situation another round is played. There are also differences among specific machines, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other differing aspects to enhance playability.