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Electronic Poker is a favored game that can be played in casinos across the globe, or alternatively at home on your PC, through an Internet account. The game rules are very straightforward and involve the player attempting to achieve the best assemblage of cards as you can in order to come away with cash. In this respect it is much the same as a regular game of poker, apart from the involvement with any other players. Of course, techniques employed during a physical game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Video Poker starts when the player inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the machine and pushes the draw button. A 5 card hand will then be "dealt" on the video screen.

The Electronic Poker game also has hold buttons, and players will need to now pick which cards to hold and which to throw away. For the cards the player wishes to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can choose to keep any amount of cards they wish, from all to none.

After the enthusiast has chosen which cards she wishes to retain, the player will then press ‘deal’, which will mean that any new cards will be given out if desired. The round is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the payout schedule.

Typically, the lowest winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money growing for each and every better hand. A list of common winning hands begins with jacks or better, moving on to 2 pairs, 3 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 pay out schedule can vary from game to game, so that discerning bettors are agile enough to select the most profitable game each time.

Once the first round has completed, the player can either decide to continue on and try to to increase their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that they may have won. Additionally, a few versions of the game give the bettor a chance to increase their profits, in which instance a further game is played. There are also differences among individual games, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other differing aspects to increase playability.