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Video Poker is a favored game that is able to be bet on in casinos throughout the world, or alternatively at your house on your computer, through a web connection. The rules are absolutely straightforward and involve the player trying to achieve the best assemblage of cards possible in order to acquire money. In this respect it is very similar as a normal game of poker, apart from the involvement with any other players. Of course, methods used in a physical game of poker, such as bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Electronic Poker starts when the gambler inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and presses the play button. A 5 card hand will then be electronically ‘handed out’ on the video screen.

The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and players 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 number of cards they wish, whether it’s all or none.

After the enthusiast has decided on which cards she would like to retain, the player will then press ‘draw’, at which point any new cards will be given out if desired. The round is now finished, with the Video Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the payment schedule.

Typically, the lowest winning hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money growing for each better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, and moves on to two pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It definitely goes without saying that the pay out schedule can change from machine to machine, so that discerning gamblers are agile enough to choose the most beneficial ones every time.

As soon as the initial round has finished, the player can either decide to remain on and try to to increase their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any money that they may have won. Further, several styles of the game allow the player a chance to increase their winnings, in which situation a further hand is played. There are also differences between specific machines, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other varying aspects to increase playability.