Video Poker is a favored game that can be played in casinos across the world, or alternatively at your house on your computer, using a web connection. The game rules are very simple and involve the player trying to achieve the best assemblage of cards possible in order to acquire money. In this respect it is very similar as a normal game of poker, apart from the line of contact with any other players. Of course, methods used in a real-life game of poker, such as tricking, will be irrelevant here.

The game of Electronic Poker begins when the player inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the machine and pushes the deal button. A 5 card hand will then be electronically ‘dealt’ on the video screen.

The Electronic Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and players should now decide which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the gambler wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they want, whether it’s all or none.

After the enthusiast has decided on which cards she would like to keep, the player will then press ‘deal’, at which point any fresh cards will be needed they will be dealt. The hand is now completed, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the payment schedule.

Generally, the lowest succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money getting larger for each and every better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to 2 pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It goes without saying that the payout schedule can vary from game to game, so that discerning gamblers are agile enough to select the most profitable game each and every instance.

After the first round has played out, the player can either choose to stay on in an attempt to maximize their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that they may have won. Additionally, several styles of the game give the enthusiast a chance to increase their winnings, in which case a further hand is played. There are also differences between individual machines, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other varying elements to enhance playability.