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Electronic Poker is a favored game that is able to be enjoyed in casinos across the world, or alternatively at your house on your home computer, through a net connection. The rules are absolutely straightforward and consist of the player trying to get the highest mixture of cards possible in order to acquire money. In this respect it is very similar as a classic game of poker, without the involvement with any other players. Of course, tactics employed during a real-life game of poker, such as bluffing, will be useless here.

The game of Video Poker starts when the gambler puts credits (either tokens, tickets or cash) into the video poker machine and presses the deal button. A 5 card hand will then be "dealt" on the screen.

The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and gamblers will need to now pick which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the bettor wishes to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they wish, from all to none.

After the enthusiast has selected which cards she wishes to keep, they should press ‘deal’, at which point any new cards will be needed they will be handed out. The game is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands printed on the pay out schedule.

Normally, the lowest winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money growing for each better hand. A list of common winning hands begins with jacks or better, moving on to two pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, 4 of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It goes without saying that the payout schedule can vary from machine to machine, so that discerning bettors are agile enough to select the most money-making machine every instance.

Once the initial round has played out, the player can either choose to remain on in an attempt to maximize their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that they may have won. Additionally, a few styles of the game allow the bettor an opportunity to double their winnings, in which situation a further round is played. There are also variations between individual machines, with some virtual decks including wild cards and other differing elements to increase playability.