Electronic Poker is a beloved game that usually will be gambled on in casinos across the globe, or alternatively at home on your PC, through a net account. The game rules are very simple and involve the player trying to get the highest mixture of cards as you can in order to come away with cash. In this respect it’s very similar as a normal game of poker, without the line of contact with any other players. Of course, methods employed during a real-life game of poker, like bluffing, will be irrelevant here.

The game of Video Poker starts when the enthusiast inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and presses the draw button. A hand of five cards will be "distributed" on the screen.

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

After the enthusiast has decided on which cards she wishes to keep, they should press ‘deal’, at which point any new cards will be given out if desired. The game is now finished, with the Video Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the payout schedule.

Normally, the minimum winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money increasing for each better hand. A list of common winning hands begins with jacks or better, and moves on to 2 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 payment schedule can change from game to game, so that knowledgeable gamblers are able to pick the most beneficial machine each instance.

After the initial round has played out, the player can either decide to continue on and try to to increase their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any money that has been won. Additionally, a few styles of the game allow the enthusiast an opportunity to double their winnings, in which situation another hand is played. There are also differences among specific machines, with some virtual decks including wild cards and other differing elements to increase playability.