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Electronic Poker is a popular game that is able to be bet on in casinos throughout the world, or in your house on your PC, through an Internet account. The rules are very simple and involve the player trying to achieve the best assemblage of cards as you can in order to come away with cash. In this respect it is very similar as a regular game of poker, minus the line of contact with other players. Of course, methods employed during a real-life game of poker, such as bluffing, will be irrelevant in Video Poker.

The game of Electronic Poker begins when the enthusiast puts credits (either tokens, tickets or cash) into the video poker machine and pushes the play button. A hand of 5 cards will be "handed out" on the video screen.

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

After the gambler has decided on which cards he or she wishes to retain, the player will then press ‘draw’, at which point any new cards are needed they will be handed out. The round is now completed, with the Video Poker machine analyzing 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 prize money increasing for each and every better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to two pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 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 enthusiasts are agile enough to pick the most money-making machine each instance.

Once the initial round has completed, the player can either decide to stay on in an attempt to maximize their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that they may have won. Further, several versions of the game give the enthusiast a chance to double their winnings, in which situation a further game is played. There are also variations among specific machines, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other differing aspects to increase playability.