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Electronic Poker is a popular game that usually will be enjoyed in casinos around the world, or in your house on your personal computer, using an Internet account. The rules are absolutely straightforward and involve the player trying to get the best mixture of cards as you can in order to win cash. On this account it’s much the same as a normal game of poker, apart from the interaction with any other players. Of course, tactics used in a physical game of poker, such as bluffing, will be useless here.

The game of Electronic Poker starts when the gambler inserts credits (either tokens, tickets or cash) into the machine and pushes the play button. A five card hand will then be electronically ‘handed out’ on the 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 enthusiast would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they wish, from all to none.

After the enthusiast has chosen which cards he or she wishes to keep, they should press ‘deal’, at which point any new cards are needed they will be given out. 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 payment schedule.

Generally, the lowest winning hand on a Video 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 2 pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It goes without saying that the payout schedule can range from game to game, so that discerning players are agile enough to choose the most money-making ones every instance.

As soon as the initial round has played out, the player can either choose to remain on and try to to maximize their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any money that they may have won. Further, a few versions of the game allow the gambler an opportunity to increase their profits, in which situation a further game is played. There are also differences among individual games, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other differing characteristics to increase playability.