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Electronic Poker is a popular game that can be played in casinos around the world, or alternatively at your house on your computer, using a web connection. The rules are absolutely straightforward and involve the player trying to achieve the best mixture of cards achievable in order to win money. In this respect it is very similar as a normal game of poker, minus the involvement with competing players. Of course, tactics employed during a physical game of poker, such as bluffing, will be useless here.

The game of Electronic Poker starts when the enthusiast puts credits (either tokens, tickets or cash) into the machine and presses the draw button. A hand of 5 cards will be "given out" on the video screen.

The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and bettors will need to now pick which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the bettor would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they want, from all to none.

After the gambler has selected which cards he would like to retain, the player will then press ‘deal’, at which point any fresh cards are dealt if desired. The hand is now finished, with the Video Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the pay out schedule.

Generally, the lowest succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money getting larger for each and every better hand. A list of common winning hands begins 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 last but not least royal flushes. It goes without saying that the payment schedule can change from machine to machine, so that experienced players are agile enough to select the most beneficial ones each and every time.

As soon as the first round has finished, the player can either choose to remain on in an attempt to maximize their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that has been won. Additionally, several styles of the game give the bettor a chance to double their wins, in which case another hand is played. There are also variations between individual games, with some virtual decks including wild cards and other varying aspects to enhance playability.