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Electronic Poker is a beloved game that is able to be gambled on in casinos around the globe, or alternatively at home on your personal computer, using a net account. The rules are absolutely straightforward and involve the player trying to get the highest mixture of cards possible in order to win cash. In this respect it is much the same as a normal game of poker, apart from the line of contact with competing players. Of course, tactics employed during a physical game of poker, such as bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Video Poker begins when the gambler inserts credits (either tokens, tickets or money) into the machine and pushes the deal button. A hand of 5 cards will then be "distributed" on the video screen.

The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and gamblers will need to now decide which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the player wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they wish, from all to none.

After the player has chosen which cards he wishes to retain, the player will then press ‘draw’, at which point any new cards will be dealt if desired. The game is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands shown on the pay out schedule.

Normally, the minimum succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money growing for each better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, and moves 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 range from machine to machine, so that knowledgeable enthusiasts are agile enough to pick the most money-making game each instance.

As soon as the first round has played out, the player can either choose to continue on in an attempt to increase their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any credits that they may have won. Further, some styles of the game allow the enthusiast an opportunity to double their winnings, in which case a further hand is played. There are also variations between specific machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other differing elements to increase playability.