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Electronic Poker is a favored game that can be wagered on in casinos around the world, or alternatively at home on your personal computer, through a web account. The game rules are absolutely simple and involve the player trying to achieve the best combination of cards achievable in order to acquire cash. In this respect it is very similar as a classic game of poker, apart from the interaction with other players. Of course, tactics employed during a real-life game of poker, such as tricking, will be useless here.

The game of Electronic Poker starts when the enthusiast puts credits (either tokens, tickets or cash) into the machine and presses the play button. A 5 card hand will then be "distributed" on the screen.

The Video Poker game also has hold buttons, and bettors should now pick which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the bettor would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any amount of cards they wish, whether it’s all or none.

After the bettor has chosen which cards she wishes to keep, the player will then press ‘deal’, at which point any new cards will be needed they will be handed out. The game is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the payout schedule.

Generally, the lowest succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money increasing for each better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving 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 should be known that the payout schedule can change from machine to machine, so that skillful gamblers are able to select the most money-making game each and every instance.

Once the initial round has finished, the player can either decide to remain on and try to to maximize their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any money that they may have won. Further, several versions of the game give the enthusiast an opportunity to increase their wins, in which case a further round is played. There are also differences between specific machines, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other varying characteristics to increase playability.