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Video Poker is a popular game that can be played in casinos throughout the globe, or alternatively at home on your home computer, using a net account. The regulations are very simple and involve the player trying to get the best combination of cards achievable in order to acquire money. On this account it’s very similar as a regular game of poker, minus the interaction with any other players. Of course, tactics used in a real-life game of poker, like tricking, will be irrelevant in Video Poker.

The game of Electronic Poker starts when the gambler inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and pushes the deal button. A five card hand will then be electronically ‘handed out’ on the screen.

The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and bettors will need to now decide which cards to hold and which to throw away. For the cards the bettor 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 want, from all to none.

After the gambler has decided on which cards he wishes to keep, they should press ‘deal’, at which point any new cards are dealt if desired. The game is now completed, with the Video Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the payout schedule.

Generally, the lowest succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money getting larger for each better hand. A common list of 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 definitely goes without saying that the payout schedule can change from machine to machine, so that discerning bettors are agile enough to choose the most money-making ones each and every time.

As soon as the initial round has finished, the player can either choose to continue on in an attempt to increase their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that might been won. Further, a few styles of the game allow the bettor an opportunity to double their profits, in which instance a further game is played. There are also differences among individual machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying aspects to increase playability.