Electronic Poker is a favored game that can be wagered on in casinos all over the globe, or in your house on your personal computer, using a web connection. The game rules are very straightforward and consist of the player trying to achieve the greatest combination of cards as you can in order to win money. On this account it is very similar as a regular game of poker, minus the line of contact with any other players. Of course, methods employed during a physical game of poker, such as tricking, will be irrelevant here.

The game of Video Poker starts when the gambler puts credits (whether it is tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and presses the play button. A 5 card hand will be "handed out" on the screen.

The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and players will need to now decide which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the gambler would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they wish, whether it is all or none.

After the enthusiast has chosen which cards she would like to retain, the player will then press ‘deal’, at which point any fresh cards are needed they will be given out. The hand is now completed, with the Video Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the payment schedule.

Normally, the lowest winning hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money increasing for each better hand. A list of common winning hands begins with jacks or better, and moves on to two pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It is obvious that the pay out schedule can change from game to game, so that knowledgeable enthusiasts are agile enough to choose the most money-making machine each and every time.

As soon as the first round has played out, the player can either decide to continue on and try to to increase their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that have been won. Additionally, a few versions of the game give the enthusiast a chance to increase their profits, in which case a further game is played. There are also differences among individual games, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other varying characteristics to increase playability.