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Electronic Poker is a popular game that is able to be gambled on in casinos across the world, or alternatively at home on your PC, through a web connection. The rules are absolutely simple and consist of the player attempting to get the highest assemblage of cards possible in order to win cash. On this account it’s much the same as a regular game of poker, without the line of contact with any other players. Of course, methods employed during a real-life game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Electronic Poker begins when the bettor inserts credits (either tokens, tickets or money) into the video poker machine and pushes the draw button. A hand of 5 cards will then be electronically ‘distributed’ on the screen.

The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and players will need to now pick which cards to hold and which to throw away. For the cards the enthusiast wishes to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they wish, from all to none.

After the player has selected which cards he wishes to retain, the player will then press ‘draw’, which will mean that any fresh cards will be handed out if desired. 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.

Typically, the minimum succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money getting larger for each better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to two pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It definitely goes without saying that the payment schedule can vary from machine to machine, so that knowledgeable enthusiasts are agile enough to select the most beneficial machine every instance.

Once the initial round has finished, the player can either decide to stay on in an attempt to increase their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that has been won. Additionally, a few versions of the game give the gambler a chance to increase their winnings, in which instance a further round is played. There are also differences among specific machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying characteristics to enhance playability.