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Electronic Poker is a favored game that can be enjoyed in casinos across the globe, or alternatively at home on your computer, using a net connection. The regulations are very simple and involve the player trying to achieve the greatest mixture of cards possible in order to acquire money. On this account it’s much the same as a regular game of poker, minus the involvement with any other players. Of course, tactics used in a physical game of poker, such as bluffing, will be irrelevant in Video Poker.

The game of Video Poker starts when the player inserts credits (either tokens, tickets or money) into the video poker machine and presses the deal button. A 5 card hand will be "given out" on the video screen.

The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and players should now pick which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the player would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they wish, whether it’s all or none.

After the gambler has chosen which cards she would like to retain, the player will then press ‘draw’, at which point any fresh cards will be needed they will be given out. The hand is now completed, with the Video Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands shown on the payment schedule.

Normally, the lowest succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money increasing for each better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, and moves on to two 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 pay out schedule can change from machine to machine, so that knowledgeable players are agile enough to select the most beneficial ones each time.

As soon as the initial round has finished, the player can either decide to remain on and try to to increase their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any money that they may have won. Further, some versions of the game allow the gambler an opportunity to double their profits, in which instance a further hand is played. There are also differences among specific machines, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other differing aspects to increase playability.