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Video Poker is a popular game that usually will be bet on in casinos around the world, or alternatively at your house on your personal computer, using an Internet account. The rules are very straightforward and consist of the player trying to achieve the highest combination of cards as you can in order to come away with money. On this account it is very similar as a classic game of poker, apart from the line of contact with any other players. Of course, methods employed during a physical game of poker, such as bluffing, will be useless here.

The game of Electronic Poker begins when the player inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and pushes the play button. A hand of 5 cards will be electronically ‘distributed’ on the screen.

The Video Poker machine also has hold buttons, and players will need to now pick which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the gambler wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they wish, whether it’s all or none.

After the enthusiast has chosen which cards he wishes to keep, the player will then press ‘draw’, at which point any fresh cards are needed they will be dealt. The round is now completed, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the payment schedule.

Typically, the lowest winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money increasing for each better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to two pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It should be known that the payment schedule can range from machine to machine, so that experienced bettors are agile enough to choose the most beneficial machine each time.

As soon as the first 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 has been won. Further, some styles of the game give the bettor a chance to increase their winnings, in which instance another game is played. There are also differences between specific machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other differing characteristics to enhance playability.