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Electronic Poker is a beloved game that can be bet on in casinos around the world, or alternatively at home on your home computer, using an Internet account. The regulations are absolutely simple and consist of the player attempting to achieve the highest combination of cards achievable in order to win cash. In this respect it’s very similar as a normal game of poker, minus the line of contact with any other players. Of course, tactics employed during a real-life game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless here.

The game of Electronic Poker starts when the gambler inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the machine and pushes the play button. A five card hand will be "given out" on the video screen.

The Electronic Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and enthusiasts should now decide which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the enthusiast wishes to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they wish, from all to none.

After the gambler has chosen which cards he wishes to keep, the player will then press ‘draw’, at which point any new cards will be dealt if desired. The round is now finished, with the Video Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it matches any of the winning hands listed in the payout schedule.

Typically, the lowest winning hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money growing for each and every better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, and moves on to 2 pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It definitely goes without saying that the pay out schedule can change from machine to machine, so that discerning bettors are able to choose the most money-making machine each and every time.

After the initial round has completed, the player can either decide to continue on and try to to maximize their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any cash that they may have won. Additionally, some styles of the game give the player a chance to increase their wins, in which instance a further game is played. There are also variations between individual machines, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other varying aspects to increase playability.