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Video Poker is a popular game that usually will be enjoyed in casinos across the globe, or in your house on your PC, using a net account. The rules are absolutely simple and consist of the player attempting to achieve the best combination of cards possible in order to acquire money. In this respect it’s very similar as a regular game of poker, apart from the interaction with any other players. Of course, tactics used in a real-life game of poker, such as bluffing, will be irrelevant in Video Poker.

The game of Video Poker begins when the player inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the machine and pushes the play button. A hand of 5 cards will be electronically ‘dealt’ on the screen.

The Electronic Poker game also has hold buttons, and bettors should now decide which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the bettor would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons need to 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 would like to keep, the player will then press ‘deal’, at which point any fresh cards will be needed they will be given out. The hand is now completed, with the Video Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the payment schedule.

Typically, the lowest succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money getting larger for each and every better hand. A common list of winning hands begins with jacks or better, and moves on to 2 pairs, 3 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 payment schedule can range from game to game, so that skillful players are able to select the most money-making machine every time.

After the initial round has finished, the player can either decide to continue on and try to to increase their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that they may have won. Additionally, some versions of the game give the player a chance to double their wins, in which case a further hand is played. There are also differences among specific machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other differing aspects to enhance playability.