Electronic Poker is a favored game that can be wagered on in casinos throughout the globe, or in your house on your home computer, through a web account. The rules are very simple and consist of the player trying to get the best combination of cards as you can in order to come away with money. In this respect it’s very similar as a regular game of poker, apart from the interaction with competing players. Of course, techniques used in a real-life game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless here.

The game of Electronic Poker begins when the gambler puts credits (whether it is tokens, tickets or cash) into the video poker machine and pushes the play button. A five card hand will then be "given out" on the screen.

The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and gamblers will need to now pick which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the bettor would like to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they want, whether it is all or none.

After the enthusiast has chosen which cards she wishes to keep, the player will then press ‘draw’, at which point any new cards are handed out if desired. The game is now completed, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the pay out schedule.

Normally, 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, 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 goes without saying that the payment schedule can range from game to game, so that skillful enthusiasts are agile enough to pick the most profitable ones every instance.

After the first round has completed, the player can either decide to remain on and try to to increase their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that they may have won. Additionally, several styles of the game give the enthusiast an opportunity to increase their winnings, in which situation a further hand is played. There are also differences between individual games, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other varying elements to increase playability.