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Electronic Poker is a beloved game that is able to be bet on in casinos around the world, or in your house on your PC, through a web account. The rules are very simple and involve the player trying to get the best assemblage of cards possible in order to acquire money. On this account it’s very similar as a normal game of poker, without the interaction with any other players. Of course, methods used in a real-life game of poker, such as tricking, will be useless here.

The game of Electronic Poker begins when the bettor inserts credits (whether it’s tokens, tickets or cash) into the video poker machine and presses the play button. A hand of 5 cards will then be "given out" on the video screen.

The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and bettors should now choose which cards to hold and which to throw away. For the cards the player would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they wish, whether it’s all or none.

After the player has selected which cards he would like to keep, the player will then press ‘deal’, which will mean that any new cards will be dealt if desired. The round 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 payment schedule.

Normally, the lowest winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money increasing for each and every better hand. A common list of winning hands begins with jacks or better, moving on to 2 pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It is obvious that the payout schedule can range from game to game, so that skillful players are agile enough to choose the most beneficial machine every instance.

Once the initial round has completed, the player can either decide to stay on and try to to maximize their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any credits that they may have won. Additionally, some styles of the game give the bettor an opportunity to increase their wins, in which instance another hand is played. There are also differences among specific games, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying characteristics to enhance playability.