Electronic Poker is a popular game that is able to be gambled on in casinos around the world, or in your house on your PC, through a net connection. The regulations are very simple and consist of the player trying to get the highest assemblage of cards as you can in order to come away with money. On this account it’s much the same as a classic game of poker, without the line of contact with other players. Of course, tactics used in a real-life game of poker, such as tricking, will be irrelevant here.

The game of Video Poker starts when the player inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and presses the draw button. A hand of five cards will then be "handed out" on the screen.

The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and gamblers will need to now choose which cards to hold and which to discard. For the cards the enthusiast wishes to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they wish, from all to none.

After the enthusiast has selected which cards she wishes to retain, they should press ‘deal’, which will mean that any new cards will be handed out if desired. The round is now completed, with the Video Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the payment schedule.

Generally, the minimum succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money increasing for each better hand. A list of common 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 is obvious that the payment schedule can vary from machine to machine, so that experienced enthusiasts are able to pick the most profitable ones each and every instance.

As soon as the first round has played out, the player can either choose to remain on in an attempt to increase their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that they may have won. Additionally, a few versions of the game allow the player a chance to increase their winnings, in which case another game is played. There are also variations between specific games, with some virtual decks including wild cards and other differing elements to increase playability.