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Electronic Poker is a popular game that is able to be gambled on in casinos across the globe, or alternatively at your house on your personal computer, through a net connection. The rules are absolutely simple and consist of the player trying to achieve the greatest assemblage of cards possible in order to acquire cash. On this account it’s much the same as a normal game of poker, minus the involvement with any other players. Of course, techniques used in a real-life game of poker, like bluffing, will be irrelevant here.

The game of Video Poker begins when the gambler puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the machine and presses the deal button. A 5 card hand will be "given out" on the video screen.

The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and gamblers should now choose which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the player would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can choose to keep any amount of cards they want, whether it is all or none.

After the gambler has chosen which cards he would like to keep, they should press ‘deal’, at which point any fresh cards will be needed they will be dealt. The game is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the payment schedule.

Normally, the minimum winning hand on a Video 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 starts with jacks or better, and moves on to 2 pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It is obvious that the payment schedule can vary from game to game, so that experienced gamblers are agile enough to choose the most money-making machine each and every time.

As soon as the first round has played out, the player can either decide to stay on in an attempt to increase their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any credits that have been won. Further, several versions of the game allow the player an opportunity to increase their profits, in which instance a further hand is played. There are also variations between specific games, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other varying characteristics to increase playability.