Electronic Poker is a popular game that can be gambled on in casinos throughout the world, or alternatively at your house on your home computer, using a web account. The rules are absolutely straightforward and involve the player trying to achieve the best combination of cards as you can in order to acquire money. On this account it is very similar as a normal game of poker, without the line of contact with competing players. Of course, tactics employed during a physical game of poker, like tricking, will be irrelevant here.

The game of Video Poker starts when the enthusiast inserts credits (whether it’s tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and presses the draw button. A 5 card hand will be "given out" on the video screen.

The Electronic Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and gamblers will need to now pick which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the bettor wishes 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, whether it’s all or none.

After the enthusiast has chosen which cards he would like to keep, they should press ‘deal’, at which point any new cards are dealt if desired. The round is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands printed on the pay out schedule.

Typically, the lowest succeeding hand on an Electronic 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 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 range from machine to machine, so that experienced bettors are agile enough to choose the most profitable game every time.

Once the initial round has finished, the player can either decide to continue on in an attempt to increase their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any credits that they may have won. Further, several styles of the game allow the bettor a chance to double their profits, in which instance a further hand is played. There are also differences between specific machines, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other differing characteristics to enhance playability.