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Video Poker is a beloved game that can be gambled on in casinos all over the world, or alternatively at home on your computer, through an Internet account. The rules are absolutely simple and consist of the player attempting to achieve the greatest assemblage of cards possible in order to acquire money. In this respect it is very similar as a classic game of poker, apart from the line of contact with any other players. Of course, techniques employed during a physical game of poker, such as bluffing, will be useless here.

The game of Electronic Poker starts when the enthusiast inserts credits (whether it is tokens, credit slips or money) into the machine and presses the draw button. A 5 card hand will be "distributed" on the video screen.

The Electronic Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and bettors should now decide which cards to hold and which to throw away. For the cards the enthusiast wishes 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 is all or none.

After the gambler has decided on which cards she wishes to retain, they should press ‘draw’, which will mean that any fresh cards are needed they will be dealt. The round is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands printed on the payout schedule.

Normally, the lowest succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money getting larger for each better hand. A list of common winning hands begins with jacks or better, moving on to 2 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 pay out schedule can change from game to game, so that experienced gamblers are able to choose the most profitable machine each and every time.

Once the first round has finished, the player can either decide to continue on and try to to maximize their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that they may have won. Additionally, several styles of the game give the enthusiast a chance to increase their winnings, in which case a further round is played. There are also variations among individual games, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other differing elements to increase playability.