Electronic Poker is a favored game that is able to be played in casinos around the world, or alternatively at home on your computer, using a net account. The game rules are absolutely simple and consist of the player attempting to achieve the greatest combination of cards possible in order to win cash. In this respect it is very similar as a classic game of poker, apart from the involvement with other players. Of course, methods used in a physical game of poker, such as bluffing, will be useless here.

The game of Electronic Poker begins when the enthusiast inserts credits (whether it is tokens, tickets or cash) into the video poker machine and pushes the deal button. A hand of 5 cards will be "given out" on the screen.

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

After the enthusiast has chosen which cards she wishes to keep, the player will then press ‘draw’, which will mean that any fresh cards are given out if desired. 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 listed in the payment schedule.

Typically, the lowest winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money getting larger for each and every better hand. A common list of winning hands begins with jacks or better, and moves 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 goes without saying that the payment schedule can vary from game to game, so that experienced enthusiasts are agile enough to select the most beneficial machine each and every time.

After the initial round has finished, the player can either decide to continue on in an attempt to increase their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that has been won. Additionally, a few versions of the game give the enthusiast an opportunity to double their profits, in which instance a further round is played. There are also variations between specific machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying elements to enhance playability.