Electronic Poker is a popular game that is able to be gambled on in casinos all over the globe, or alternatively at your house on your PC, using an Internet account. The regulations are absolutely straightforward and involve the player attempting to get the best assemblage of cards as you can in order to come away with cash. In this respect it’s very similar as a classic game of poker, minus the line of contact with competing players. Of course, techniques employed during a real-life game of poker, such as tricking, will be irrelevant here.

The game of Video Poker starts when the bettor inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the machine and presses the deal button. A hand of 5 cards will then be "distributed" on the 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 discard. For the cards the bettor wishes to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they wish, whether it’s all or none.

After the player has chosen which cards he or she wishes to keep, the player will then press ‘deal’, at which point any fresh cards will be needed they will be dealt. The hand 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 payment schedule.

Normally, the minimum winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money getting larger for each better hand. A common list of 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 is obvious that the payout schedule can change from machine to machine, so that experienced gamblers are agile enough to select the most profitable ones each and every time.

As soon as the initial round has played out, the player can either choose to remain on in an attempt to increase their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that they may have won. Further, several versions of the game allow the gambler a chance to double their profits, in which case another game is played. There are also differences among individual games, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other differing aspects to enhance playability.