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Electronic Poker is a popular game that can be gambled on in casinos around the globe, or alternatively at home on your personal computer, through an Internet connection. The regulations are very straightforward and involve the player attempting to get the best assemblage of cards as you can in order to come away with cash. In this respect it’s much the same as a classic game of poker, apart from the line of contact with competing players. Of course, methods used in a physical game of poker, such as bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Video Poker begins when the gambler inserts credits (whether it’s tokens, tickets or cash) into the machine and pushes the play button. A hand of five cards will be "handed out" on the video screen.

The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and gamblers should now choose which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the player would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons must 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 he or she wishes to retain, they should press ‘deal’, at which point any new cards will be needed they will be handed out. The hand is now completed, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands shown on the payment schedule.

Typically, the minimum winning hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money getting larger for each and every better hand. A list of common winning hands begins with jacks or better, moving on to two pairs, 3 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 pay out schedule can vary from machine to machine, so that knowledgeable enthusiasts are able to select the most profitable machine each and every time.

As soon as the initial round has finished, the player can either decide to remain on and try to to increase their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that they may have won. Further, a few styles of the game give the bettor an opportunity to double their winnings, in which situation another round is played. There are also differences between individual machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying aspects to increase playability.