Electronic Poker is a popular game that can be gambled on in casinos around the world, or alternatively at your house on your computer, through a web account. The rules are absolutely simple and consist of the player attempting to achieve the greatest assemblage of cards as you can in order to win money. In this respect it is much the same as a classic game of poker, apart from the line of contact with any other players. Of course, methods used in a physical game of poker, like tricking, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Electronic Poker starts when the bettor inserts credits (whether it is tokens, tickets or money) into the machine and pushes the play button. A 5 card hand will then be "given out" on the screen.

The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and enthusiasts will need to now pick which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the enthusiast 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 wish, whether it is all or none.

After the enthusiast has selected which cards she would like to retain, they should press ‘deal’, which will mean that any new cards are given out if desired. The round is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the pay out schedule.

Normally, the minimum winning hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money growing for each better hand. A list of common winning hands begins with jacks or better, and moves on to 2 pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It should be known that the payment schedule can range from machine to machine, so that skillful gamblers are agile enough to choose the most money-making machine every time.

As soon as the initial round has finished, the player can either choose to stay on in an attempt to increase their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that they may have won. Further, some styles of the game give the enthusiast an opportunity to double their profits, in which instance a further round is played. There are also variations between individual games, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying elements to increase playability.