Electronic Poker is a favored game that usually will be gambled on in casinos all over the world, or alternatively at home on your computer, through a net connection. The rules are absolutely straightforward and consist of the player attempting to achieve the best assemblage of cards possible in order to come away with money. In this respect it is much the same as a normal game of poker, minus the interaction with any other players. Of course, methods employed during a physical game of poker, like tricking, will be useless here.

The game of Electronic Poker begins when the enthusiast puts credits (whether it’s tokens, credit slips or cash) into the machine and presses the deal button. A hand of five cards will be "handed out" on the video screen.

The Electronic Poker game also has hold buttons, and enthusiasts should now pick which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the gambler wishes to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any amount of cards they wish, whether it is all or none.

After the player has selected which cards he would like to keep, the player will then press ‘deal’, at which point any new cards are needed they will be dealt. The round is now finished, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands shown on the payment schedule.

Typically, 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, and moves on to two 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 payout schedule can range from game to game, so that experienced bettors are agile enough to select the most beneficial ones each instance.

After the initial round has completed, the player can either choose to remain on and try to to maximize their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that they may have won. Further, a few versions of the game give the enthusiast an opportunity to double their winnings, in which instance another game is played. There are also variations between specific machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other differing elements to enhance playability.