Electronic Poker is a popular game that is able to be enjoyed in casinos across the globe, or in your house on your home computer, using an Internet account. The rules are absolutely straightforward and involve the player trying to get the highest assemblage of cards as you can in order to win money. On this account it’s very similar as a regular game of poker, apart from the involvement with competing players. Of course, methods used in a physical game of poker, such as tricking, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Electronic Poker starts when the bettor puts credits (either tokens, tickets or money) into the video poker machine and pushes the draw button. A 5 card hand will then be electronically ‘distributed’ on the video screen.

The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and enthusiasts will need to now decide which cards to hold and which to throw away. For the cards the bettor wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can choose to keep any amount of cards they wish, whether it’s all or none.

After the bettor has decided on which cards she wishes to retain, the player will then press ‘deal’, at which point any fresh cards will be needed they will be handed out. The round is now completed, with the Video Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands printed on the payment schedule.

Typically, the minimum winning hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money getting larger for each and every better hand. A list of common winning hands starts 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 goes without saying that the pay out schedule can vary from machine to machine, so that skillful players are able to select the most money-making game every instance.

As soon as the first round has completed, the player can either decide to stay on and try to to maximize their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that they may have won. Additionally, some styles of the game allow the enthusiast an opportunity to increase their wins, in which situation a further round is played. There are also variations between individual games, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other differing characteristics to increase playability.