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Electronic Poker is a favored game that usually will be enjoyed in casinos around the world, or alternatively at your house on your personal computer, through a web connection. The game rules are absolutely straightforward and consist of the player attempting to achieve the best mixture of cards achievable in order to acquire cash. On this account it’s very similar as a regular game of poker, minus the involvement with competing players. Of course, techniques used in a real-life game of poker, like bluffing, will be irrelevant in Video Poker.

The game of Electronic Poker starts when the player inserts credits (either tokens, tickets or money) into the video poker machine and pushes the draw button. A 5 card hand will then be "handed out" on the screen.

The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and bettors should now decide which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the bettor would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they want, from all to none.

After the bettor has selected which cards she would like to retain, the player will then press ‘draw’, which will mean that any fresh cards are handed out if desired. The hand is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands printed on the payment schedule.

Generally, the minimum succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money growing for each better hand. A list of common winning hands starts 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 should be known that the payout schedule can range from machine to machine, so that skillful enthusiasts are agile enough to pick the most profitable ones every instance.

After the first round has played out, the player can either choose to remain on and try to to increase their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that they may have won. Further, a few styles of the game give the enthusiast an opportunity to double their wins, in which case a further game is played. There are also variations among specific games, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other varying aspects to enhance playability.