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Electronic Poker is a favored game that usually will be wagered on in casinos across the world, or in your house on your PC, through a web account. The rules are very straightforward and involve the player attempting to achieve the best assemblage of cards possible in order to win money. On this account it’s much the same as a classic game of poker, minus the line of contact with competing 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 inserts credits (whether it’s tokens, tickets or cash) into the video poker machine and presses the draw button. A 5 card hand will be "distributed" on the screen.

The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and gamblers will need to now pick which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the gambler would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they want, whether it’s all or none.

After the bettor has decided on which cards he or she would like to keep, they should press ‘draw’, at which point any new cards will be needed they will be given out. The game 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 common list of winning hands begins 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 last but not least royal flushes. It definitely goes without saying that the pay out schedule can change from game to game, so that experienced players are agile enough to choose the most profitable ones every instance.

After the initial round has finished, the player can either choose to stay on and try to to increase their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that they may have won. Additionally, several styles of the game allow the bettor an opportunity to double their winnings, in which instance another game is played. There are also variations between individual games, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying elements to increase playability.