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Electronic Poker is a favored game that usually will be gambled on in casinos across the globe, or in your house on your home computer, through a web account. The regulations are absolutely straightforward and consist of the player attempting to get the best mixture of cards possible in order to come away with cash. In this respect it is very similar as a classic game of poker, apart from the involvement with competing players. Of course, tactics employed during a physical game of poker, such as tricking, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Electronic Poker starts when the player inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the machine and presses the deal button. A five card hand will then be "distributed" on the screen.

The Electronic Poker game also has hold buttons, and bettors should now choose which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the bettor wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can choose to keep any amount of cards they want, whether it’s all or none.

After the bettor has decided on which cards she wishes to retain, the player will then press ‘deal’, at which point any new cards will be needed they will be handed out. The hand is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the pay out schedule.

Typically, 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 common list of 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 definitely goes without saying that the payout schedule can change from machine to machine, so that discerning enthusiasts are able to choose the most profitable game each time.

As soon as the first round has finished, the player can either decide to continue on and try to to maximize their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any money that they may have won. Further, some versions of the game give the bettor a chance to increase their wins, in which case another game is played. There are also differences among specific games, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other differing aspects to increase playability.