Electronic Poker is a favored game that is able to be enjoyed in casinos across the globe, or alternatively at home on your computer, using a net account. The game rules are very simple and involve the player attempting to get the best combination of cards as you can in order to come away with cash. In this respect it is very similar as a normal game of poker, minus the line of contact with any other players. Of course, methods used in a real-life game of poker, like bluffing, will be irrelevant in Video Poker.

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

The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and gamblers should now choose which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the bettor 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, from all to none.

After the gambler has decided on which cards he or she wishes to keep, they should press ‘draw’, at which point any new cards are needed they will be dealt. The game is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the pay out schedule.

Generally, the lowest winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money increasing for each and every better hand. A list of common winning hands begins with jacks or better, and moves 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 goes without saying that the payment schedule can range from machine to machine, so that skillful enthusiasts are agile enough to select the most profitable machine each instance.

As soon as the first round has completed, the player can either decide to remain on and try to to maximize their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that have been won. Additionally, some styles of the game allow the gambler an opportunity to increase their wins, in which situation a further round is played. There are also differences among specific machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying elements to enhance playability.