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Electronic Poker is a beloved game that is able to be gambled on in casinos all over the world, or alternatively at home on your PC, through a web account. The rules are absolutely straightforward and consist of the player trying to get the highest combination of cards possible in order to come away with money. In this respect it’s much the same as a regular game of poker, minus the interaction with competing players. Of course, tactics employed during a physical game of poker, like tricking, will be useless here.

The game of Video Poker begins when the enthusiast puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the machine and presses the draw button. A hand of 5 cards will be "distributed" on the screen.

The Video Poker machine also has hold buttons, and players will need to now decide which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the enthusiast wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they wish, whether it’s all or none.

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

Normally, the lowest succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money growing for each and every better hand. A list of common winning hands begins with jacks or better, moving on to two pairs, three 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 payment schedule can range from machine to machine, so that knowledgeable bettors are agile enough to choose the most profitable machine every time.

As soon as the initial round has completed, the player can either choose to continue on in an attempt to maximize their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that might have been won. Additionally, some styles of the game give the enthusiast a chance to increase their profits, in which instance a further round is played. There are also variations among specific games, with some virtual decks including wild cards and other differing elements to increase playability.