Video Poker is a favored game that can be enjoyed in casinos all over the globe, or in your house on your PC, using a web connection. The rules are absolutely simple and consist of the player trying to achieve the best combination of cards achievable in order to win cash. In this respect it’s very similar as a classic game of poker, without the interaction with other players. Of course, techniques employed during a physical game of poker, such as bluffing, will be irrelevant here.

The game of Electronic Poker begins when the gambler inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and pushes the play button. A hand of five cards will then be electronically ‘handed out’ on the screen.

The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and players should now pick which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the enthusiast wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they wish, from all to none.

After the player has selected which cards she wishes to keep, the player will then press ‘deal’, at which point any new cards are needed they will be given out. 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 succeeding hand on a Video 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, moving on to 2 pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It should be known that the payment schedule can vary from game to game, so that experienced enthusiasts are agile enough to select the most money-making machine every time.

After the initial round has completed, the player can either decide to continue on in an attempt to increase their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that they may have won. Further, several styles of the game give the enthusiast a chance to increase their wins, in which situation a further hand is played. There are also variations among individual machines, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other differing elements to increase playability.