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Electronic Poker is a popular game that is able to be wagered on in casinos all over the world, or in your house on your PC, using a web connection. The rules are absolutely simple and involve the player attempting to achieve the highest combination of cards possible in order to acquire cash. In this respect it is much the same as a regular game of poker, apart from the interaction with other players. Of course, tactics employed during a real-life game of poker, such as bluffing, will be useless here.

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

The Electronic Poker machine 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 gambler would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any amount of cards they want, from all to none.

After the bettor has decided on which cards she would like to keep, the player will then press ‘deal’, at which point any fresh cards are needed they will be given out. The hand is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands printed on 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 better hand. A list of common winning hands starts 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 should be known that the payout schedule can range from game to game, so that experienced players are agile enough to pick the most beneficial machine each time.

As soon as the first round has completed, the player can either decide to continue on and try to to maximize their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any credits that might been won. Further, several styles of the game give the enthusiast an opportunity to increase their wins, in which situation a further round is played. There are also differences between individual machines, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other varying aspects to enhance playability.