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Video Poker is a popular game that is able to be enjoyed in casinos around the world, or alternatively at home on your personal computer, using an Internet account. The game rules are absolutely simple and consist of the player trying to get the best combination of cards as you can in order to come away with money. On this account it is very similar as a classic game of poker, apart from the involvement with competing players. Of course, techniques used in a real-life game of poker, such as bluffing, will be useless here.

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

The Video Poker game also has hold buttons, and bettors should now choose which cards to hold and which to throw away. For the cards the enthusiast would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they wish, whether it is all or none.

After the player has chosen which cards he or she would like to keep, the player will then press ‘deal’, which will mean that any new cards are handed out if desired. The round is now completed, with the Video Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the pay out schedule.

Normally, the lowest winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money getting larger for each better hand. A list of common winning hands begins with jacks or better, and moves on to two 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 payout schedule can change from game to game, so that skillful players are able to pick the most money-making machine every time.

As soon as the first round has finished, the player can either choose to stay on and try to to increase their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any money that they may have won. Further, several versions of the game allow the player a chance to double their wins, in which instance another game is played. There are also differences among specific games, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other varying characteristics to increase playability.