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Video Poker is a popular game that can be wagered on in casinos across the world, or in your house on your computer, using a web account. The regulations are absolutely straightforward and consist of the player trying to get the highest combination of cards as you can in order to come away with money. On this account it’s much the same as a normal game of poker, without the interaction with any other 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 is tokens, tickets or cash) into the video poker machine and presses the play button. A 5 card hand will be electronically ‘handed out’ on the video screen.

The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and players will need to now decide which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the enthusiast wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any amount of cards they wish, whether it’s all or none.

After the bettor has selected which cards he or she wishes to retain, they should press ‘draw’, at which point any fresh cards are needed they will be handed out. The round is now finished, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the pay out schedule.

Generally, the minimum succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money increasing for each better hand. A list of common winning hands begins with jacks or better, moving on to 2 pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It goes without saying that the payout schedule can vary from machine to machine, so that skillful enthusiasts are agile enough to select the most money-making game every time.

As soon as the first round has completed, the player can either decide to stay on in an attempt to maximize their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that they may have won. Further, several styles of the game allow the enthusiast a chance to increase their profits, in which case a further hand is played. There are also variations between individual games, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other differing elements to enhance playability.