Electronic Poker is a popular game that is able to be enjoyed in casinos all over the globe, or in your house on your PC, using a web connection. The game rules are absolutely straightforward and consist of the player trying to achieve the greatest mixture of cards as you can in order to acquire money. In this respect it is much the same as a regular game of poker, apart from the interaction with any other players. Of course, techniques employed during a real-life game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Video Poker starts when the player puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the machine and pushes the play button. A five card hand will be "distributed" on the video screen.

The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and gamblers should now pick which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the bettor wishes to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they wish, whether it’s all or none.

After the enthusiast has chosen which cards she would like to keep, the player will then press ‘deal’, at which point any fresh cards will be needed they will be dealt. The game is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands shown on the pay out schedule.

Generally, the minimum succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money growing for each and every better hand. A common list of winning hands begins with jacks or better, moving on to 2 pairs, 3 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 pay out schedule can change from machine to machine, so that knowledgeable gamblers are agile enough to pick the most profitable ones every time.

As soon as the initial round has played out, the player can either choose to remain on and try to to maximize their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that they may have won. Further, a few styles of the game give the gambler an opportunity to increase their wins, in which case another round is played. There are also variations among individual machines, with some virtual decks including wild cards and other varying elements to enhance playability.