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Electronic Poker is a favored game that usually will be wagered on in casinos throughout the world, or alternatively at home on your home computer, using a net connection. The rules are absolutely simple and involve the player attempting to achieve the greatest mixture of cards possible in order to come away with money. On this account it’s much the same as a regular game of poker, minus the interaction with other players. Of course, tactics used in a physical game of poker, such as tricking, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Video Poker starts when the gambler puts credits (either tokens, tickets or cash) into the video poker machine and presses the draw button. A 5 card hand will be electronically ‘dealt’ on the video screen.

The Electronic Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and gamblers should now choose which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the player wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any amount of cards they wish, whether it is all or none.

After the gambler has chosen which cards he would like to keep, they should press ‘draw’, which will mean that any new cards will be needed they will be dealt. The round is now completed, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands shown on the payout schedule.

Generally, the minimum winning hand on a Video 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, moving 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 vary from machine to machine, so that knowledgeable players are agile enough to choose the most money-making ones each time.

Once the first round has played out, the player can either decide to remain on in an attempt to increase their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any credits that they may have won. Further, a few styles of the game allow the gambler an opportunity to increase their profits, in which instance a further game is played. There are also differences among individual machines, with some virtual decks including wild cards and other varying aspects to enhance playability.