Video Poker is a favored game that is able to be enjoyed in casinos all over the world, or alternatively at home on your home computer, using a web connection. The regulations are absolutely simple and involve the player attempting to achieve the greatest mixture of cards achievable in order to acquire cash. In this respect it is very similar as a regular game of poker, apart from the involvement with any other players. Of course, techniques employed during a physical game of poker, like tricking, will be useless here.

The game of Electronic Poker starts when the player puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the machine and pushes the play button. A hand of 5 cards will then be electronically ‘handed out’ on the screen.

The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and players should now decide which cards to hold and which to throw away. For the cards the bettor would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they want, from all to none.

After the gambler has decided on which cards she would like to keep, the player will then press ‘draw’, which will mean that any new cards are needed they will be given out. The hand is now finished, with the Video Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the pay out schedule.

Generally, the lowest succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money getting larger for each and every better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, and moves 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 is obvious that the payout schedule can range from game to game, so that skillful players are able to pick the most beneficial machine each instance.

As soon as the initial round has played out, the player can either decide to continue on in an attempt to increase their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any credits that might been won. Additionally, some styles of the game give the bettor a chance to increase their profits, in which case a further game is played. There are also variations among individual machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying characteristics to enhance playability.