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Video Poker is a popular game that is able to be played in casinos across the globe, or in your house on your PC, through an Internet account. The game rules are absolutely straightforward and involve the player trying to get the greatest combination of cards possible in order to come away with cash. In this respect it is much the same as a normal game of poker, minus the line of contact with other players. Of course, tactics used in a real-life game of poker, such as tricking, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Electronic Poker begins when the player inserts credits (whether it is tokens, credit slips or cash) into the machine and presses the play button. A 5 card hand will be "given out" on the screen.

The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and enthusiasts should now decide which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the gambler would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they want, from all to none.

After the player has chosen which cards he or she would like to keep, the player will then press ‘deal’, which will mean that any new cards are handed out if desired. 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 shown on the payment schedule.

Normally, the minimum winning hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money growing for each and every better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to 2 pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It is obvious that the payout schedule can range from game to game, so that discerning gamblers are agile enough to pick the most money-making game each instance.

Once the first round has finished, the player can either decide to stay on in an attempt to increase 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 player an opportunity to increase their wins, in which case a further game is played. There are also variations between specific games, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other differing characteristics to increase playability.