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Electronic Poker is a favored game that is able to be played in casinos around the globe, or in your house on your personal computer, using a net connection. The rules are very straightforward and involve the player attempting to achieve the best mixture of cards as you can in order to win money. In this respect it’s very similar as a regular game of poker, minus the interaction with any other players. Of course, techniques employed during a real-life game of poker, like tricking, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Video Poker begins when the enthusiast inserts credits (whether it is tokens, credit slips or money) into the machine and pushes the deal button. A 5 card hand will be electronically ‘handed out’ on the screen.

The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and players will need to now decide which cards to hold 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 want, from all to none.

After the player has selected which cards he or she would like to keep, the player will then press ‘draw’, at which point any fresh cards are handed out if desired. The round is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands shown on the payout schedule.

Generally, 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 begins with jacks or better, moving 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 goes without saying that the payout schedule can change from game to game, so that discerning gamblers are agile enough to select the most profitable ones each instance.

Once the first round has played out, the player can either choose to stay on and try to to increase their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that they may have won. Additionally, several versions of the game give the gambler an opportunity to double their profits, in which situation another round is played. There are also variations between specific games, with some virtual decks including wild cards and other differing characteristics to enhance playability.