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Electronic Poker is a popular game that can be bet on in casinos throughout the world, or alternatively at home on your PC, through an Internet account. The regulations are very simple and involve the player trying to achieve the highest mixture of cards possible in order to come away with cash. On this account it is very similar as a normal game of poker, without the involvement with other players. Of course, methods used in a real-life game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Electronic Poker starts when the player puts credits (whether it is tokens, tickets or money) into the machine and presses the draw button. A hand of five cards will be electronically ‘distributed’ on the video screen.

The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and bettors should now decide which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the enthusiast wishes to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they want, whether it is all or none.

After the player has chosen which cards he or she would like to keep, the player will then press ‘deal’, at which point any new cards will be dealt if desired. The hand is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands printed on the payment schedule.

Typically, the minimum succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money growing for each and every better hand. A common list of winning hands begins with jacks or better, and moves on to 2 pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It goes without saying that the payout schedule can range from machine to machine, so that knowledgeable gamblers are able to choose the most beneficial machine every time.

As soon as the initial round has finished, the player can either decide to remain on in an attempt to increase their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that has been won. Further, several versions of the game allow the gambler a chance to double their wins, in which instance another game is played. There are also differences among specific machines, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other differing elements to increase playability.