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Video Poker is a popular game that can be bet on in casinos all over the world, or in your house on your home computer, through a web connection. The rules are absolutely straightforward and involve the player attempting to achieve the best combination of cards as you can in order to acquire money. On this account it is much the same as a regular game of poker, apart from the line of contact with any other players. Of course, methods used in a physical game of poker, such as bluffing, will be irrelevant here.

The game of Electronic Poker begins when the bettor inserts credits (whether it is tokens, tickets or money) into the machine and pushes the play button. A 5 card hand will then be "handed out" on the video screen.

The Electronic Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and players will need to now decide which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the gambler would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they want, from all to none.

After the gambler has decided on which cards he would like to keep, they should press ‘draw’, which will mean that any fresh cards will be handed out if desired. The hand is now completed, with the Video Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands shown on the payout schedule.

Normally, the lowest winning 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 knowledgeable enthusiasts are able to choose the most money-making machine each time.

Once the initial round has played out, the player can either choose to continue on in an attempt to increase their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any cash that might have been won. Additionally, several styles of the game allow the gambler a chance to double their winnings, in which situation another game is played. There are also differences among individual machines, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other differing aspects to increase playability.