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Electronic Poker is a favored game that is able to be wagered on in casinos throughout the globe, or alternatively at home on your computer, using a web account. The rules are absolutely straightforward and consist of the player trying to get the best assemblage of cards as you can in order to win money. In this respect it is much the same as a regular game of poker, minus the interaction with other players. Of course, techniques employed during a real-life game of poker, such as tricking, will be irrelevant here.

The game of Video Poker begins when the bettor inserts credits (whether it’s tokens, credit slips or money) into the machine and pushes the deal button. A five card hand will be electronically ‘handed out’ on the screen.

The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and gamblers will need to now decide which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the gambler wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they want, whether it’s all or none.

After the gambler has selected which cards he or she wishes to retain, they should press ‘deal’, at which point any fresh cards are dealt if desired. The game is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the payment schedule.

Normally, the lowest succeeding hand on a Video 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 finally royal flushes. It definitely goes without saying that the payout schedule can range from game to game, so that discerning players are agile enough to select the most beneficial machine every time.

Once the initial round has finished, the player can either choose to continue on in an attempt to maximize their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any cash that they may have won. Further, several versions of the game give the player a chance to double their winnings, in which case another hand is played. There are also variations between individual machines, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other differing characteristics to enhance playability.