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Electronic Poker is a popular game that is able to be gambled on in casinos throughout the world, or alternatively at home on your PC, using a web account. The regulations are absolutely simple and involve the player attempting to get the highest assemblage of cards possible in order to win money. On this account it is much the same as a normal game of poker, without the involvement with other players. Of course, tactics used in a physical game of poker, like tricking, will be useless here.

The game of Video Poker begins when the player puts credits (whether it’s tokens, tickets or money) into the video poker machine and pushes the draw button. A hand of 5 cards will be "distributed" on the video screen.

The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and bettors will need to now pick which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the bettor would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they want, whether it is 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 handed out. The hand is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the pay out schedule.

Normally, the minimum winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money getting larger for each and every better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, and moves on to 2 pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It goes without saying that the payment schedule can change from machine to machine, so that experienced bettors are able to choose the most beneficial game each instance.

After the first round has finished, the player can either choose to remain on and try to to maximize their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any money that they may have won. Further, some versions of the game allow the player a chance to double their wins, in which case another round is played. There are also variations among individual machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying elements to enhance playability.