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Electronic Poker is a beloved game that is able to be enjoyed in casinos all over the globe, or in your house on your personal computer, through a net account. The rules are very simple and consist of the player attempting to achieve the highest combination of cards possible in order to come away with money. On this account it is very similar as a classic game of poker, apart from the interaction with competing players. Of course, methods employed during a real-life game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Video Poker begins when the gambler inserts credits (whether it’s tokens, tickets or cash) into the video poker machine and pushes the deal button. A five card hand will be electronically ‘given out’ on the screen.

The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and gamblers will need to now choose which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the player would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any amount of cards they want, from all to none.

After the player has selected which cards he would like to retain, the player will then press ‘draw’, which will mean that any fresh cards will be handed out if desired. The game is now finished, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands shown on the payment schedule.

Generally, the minimum succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money getting larger for each and every better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to 2 pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It goes without saying that the pay out schedule can vary from machine to machine, so that skillful gamblers are able to pick the most beneficial machine each time.

Once the first round has played out, the player can either decide to continue on in an attempt to maximize their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any cash that they may have won. Further, some styles of the game allow the player an opportunity to increase their winnings, in which situation another hand is played. There are also differences between individual machines, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other varying characteristics to increase playability.