Video Poker is a favored game that can be gambled on in casinos around the globe, or alternatively at your house on your computer, through a net connection. The game rules are very straightforward and consist of the player trying to get the highest mixture of cards possible in order to come away with money. In this respect it is much the same as a classic game of poker, apart from the interaction with any other players. Of course, techniques used in a real-life game of poker, like bluffing, will be irrelevant here.

The game of Electronic Poker starts when the gambler inserts credits (either tokens, tickets or money) into the video poker machine and pushes the draw button. A five card hand will then be "dealt" on the video screen.

The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and bettors should now choose which cards to hold and which to throw away. For the cards the player wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to 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 chosen which cards he wishes to keep, they should press ‘draw’, at which point any new cards will be needed they will be given out. The hand is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands printed on the payout schedule.

Generally, the lowest succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money increasing for each and every better hand. A common list of winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to two pairs, three 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 payout schedule can range from machine to machine, so that experienced enthusiasts are agile enough to select the most money-making machine every instance.

Once the initial round has finished, the player can either decide to stay on in an attempt to increase their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that they may have won. Additionally, several versions of the game allow the bettor an opportunity to increase their winnings, in which situation a further hand is played. There are also variations among individual games, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other varying aspects to increase playability.