Electronic Poker is a popular game that is able to be played in casinos throughout the globe, or alternatively at your house on your home computer, using a web account. The regulations are very straightforward and involve the player attempting to achieve the greatest mixture of cards achievable in order to win money. In this respect it’s very similar as a normal game of poker, without the involvement with other players. Of course, techniques employed during a physical game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Electronic Poker begins when the player puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and presses the play button. A hand of 5 cards will be "handed out" on the screen.

The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and players will need to now decide which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the player wishes to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any amount of cards they want, from all to none.

After the gambler has decided on which cards he or she would like to keep, they should press ‘draw’, which will mean that any fresh cards will be needed they will be handed out. The round is now completed, with the Video Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands printed on the payout schedule.

Normally, the minimum succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money getting larger for each and every better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, and moves on to two pairs, 3 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 pay out schedule can change from machine to machine, so that experienced bettors are agile enough to select the most money-making machine each time.

As soon as the initial round has finished, the player can either choose to stay on in an attempt to maximize their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any money that has been won. Additionally, several versions of the game give the gambler an opportunity to double their winnings, in which situation another round is played. There are also differences between individual machines, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other differing aspects to increase playability.