Electronic Poker is a favored game that can be enjoyed in casinos around the globe, or in your house on your home computer, using a net account. The rules are absolutely straightforward and involve the player attempting to get the highest combination of cards possible in order to win cash. In this respect it is very similar as a normal game of poker, without the involvement with competing players. Of course, techniques used in a physical game of poker, like tricking, will be useless here.

The game of Video Poker starts when the player puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the machine and pushes the draw button. A hand of five cards will be electronically ‘dealt’ on the video screen.

The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and enthusiasts should now decide which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the player wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they wish, whether it is all or none.

After the gambler has chosen which cards he would like to retain, the player will then press ‘deal’, at which point any fresh cards will be needed they will be handed out. The game is now finished, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the pay out schedule.

Normally, the minimum winning hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money getting larger for each better hand. A common list of winning hands begins with jacks or better, moving on to two pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It definitely goes without saying that the payout schedule can range from game to game, so that experienced enthusiasts are able to pick the most money-making game each and every instance.

Once the first round has played out, the player can either decide to remain on and try to to increase their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any credits that might been won. Further, a few versions of the game allow the gambler an opportunity to double their profits, in which instance another round is played. There are also differences among individual machines, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other varying characteristics to increase playability.