Video Poker is a popular game that can be gambled on in casinos across the world, or alternatively at home on your PC, through a web connection. The regulations are very simple and consist of the player attempting to get the highest assemblage of cards possible in order to win money. In this respect it’s much the same as a classic game of poker, apart from the line of contact with competing players. Of course, methods used in a physical game of poker, such as tricking, will be useless here.

The game of Electronic Poker begins when the enthusiast puts credits (whether it is tokens, credit slips or cash) into the machine and presses the play button. A five card hand will then be electronically ‘dealt’ on the video screen.

The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and gamblers should now decide which cards to hold and which to throw away. For the cards the player wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must 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 enthusiast has selected which cards she would like to retain, they should press ‘deal’, which will mean that any fresh cards will be needed they will be handed out. The hand is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands shown on the payout schedule.

Generally, the lowest succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money increasing for each and every better hand. A list of common winning hands begins with jacks or better, moving on to 2 pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It definitely goes without saying that the payout schedule can change from game to game, so that knowledgeable players are agile enough to select the most profitable game each and every instance.

Once the initial round has played out, the player can either choose to stay on in an attempt to increase their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any credits that they may have won. Additionally, some versions of the game allow the player an opportunity to increase their wins, in which case a further game is played. There are also variations between individual machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other differing aspects to increase playability.