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Electronic Poker is a favored game that can be wagered on in casinos around the world, or in your house on your personal computer, through a web account. The rules are absolutely simple and consist of the player attempting to get the greatest combination of cards possible in order to acquire money. In this respect it is very similar as a regular game of poker, minus the line of contact with other players. Of course, tactics employed during a physical game of poker, such as tricking, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Electronic Poker begins when the enthusiast puts credits (whether it is tokens, tickets or money) into the video poker machine and presses the draw button. A 5 card hand will be electronically ‘dealt’ on the video screen.

The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and bettors should now decide which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the bettor would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can choose to keep any amount of cards they wish, from all to none.

After the enthusiast has chosen which cards she would like to retain, they should press ‘draw’, at which point any new cards will be needed they will be handed out. The hand is now finished, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands printed on the payment schedule.

Typically, the lowest succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money increasing for each better hand. A common list of 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 last but not least royal flushes. It should be known that the payment schedule can change from game to game, so that skillful gamblers are agile enough to select the most profitable game each and every time.

Once the first round has played out, the player can either choose to stay on and try to to increase their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any cash that has been won. Additionally, some versions of the game allow the gambler a chance to double their winnings, in which situation a further hand is played. There are also variations among specific machines, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other differing aspects to increase playability.