Electronic Poker is a popular game that can be bet on in casinos across the globe, or in your house on your PC, using a web account. The rules are very simple and involve the player attempting to achieve the highest mixture of cards possible in order to come away with cash. In this respect it’s much the same as a regular game of poker, without the involvement with any other players. Of course, tactics used in a real-life game of poker, such as tricking, will be irrelevant here.

The game of Electronic Poker starts when the player inserts credits (whether it is tokens, credit slips or money) into the machine and pushes the deal button. A five card hand will then be electronically ‘handed out’ on the video screen.

The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and bettors should now choose which cards to hold and which to throw away. For the cards the player wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they wish, whether it is all or none.

After the enthusiast has selected which cards he or she would like to keep, they should press ‘draw’, at which point any fresh cards will be needed they will be given out. The round is now completed, with the Video Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands shown on the pay out schedule.

Normally, the lowest succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money getting larger 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, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It goes without saying that the pay out schedule can vary from machine to machine, so that experienced bettors are agile enough to pick the most beneficial game each instance.

Once the initial round has finished, the player can either decide to stay on in an attempt to increase their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that they may have won. Additionally, several styles of the game give the bettor a chance to increase their wins, in which situation another round is played. There are also variations between specific machines, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other varying aspects to increase playability.