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Video Poker is a popular game that usually will be gambled on in casinos throughout the globe, or alternatively at home on your computer, through an Internet account. The regulations are very simple and involve the player attempting to get the highest assemblage of cards possible in order to win money. On this account it is much the same as a classic game of poker, apart from the involvement with other players. Of course, techniques used in a physical game of poker, like tricking, will be irrelevant here.

The game of Electronic Poker begins when the enthusiast inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and pushes the draw button. A five card hand will be "distributed" on the video screen.

The Electronic Poker machine also has hold buttons, and enthusiasts should now choose which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the enthusiast wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to 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 decided on which cards he or she wishes to keep, they should press ‘draw’, at which point any new cards will be needed they will be handed out. The hand is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands shown on the payment schedule.

Normally, the minimum succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money increasing for each and every better hand. A common list of 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 finally royal flushes. It goes without saying that the payment schedule can range from game to game, so that skillful bettors are able to select the most profitable machine each and every instance.

After the first round has completed, the player can either choose to remain on in an attempt to maximize their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that might have been won. Further, several versions of the game allow the gambler an opportunity to increase their winnings, in which case another game is played. There are also differences between individual machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other differing elements to increase playability.