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Electronic Poker is a beloved game that is able to be enjoyed in casinos throughout the globe, or in your house on your computer, through a net connection. The rules are absolutely straightforward and involve the player trying to get the greatest mixture of cards possible in order to win money. On this account it’s very similar as a regular game of poker, without the line of contact with other players. Of course, methods employed during a real-life game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Electronic Poker begins when the bettor puts credits (either tokens, tickets or cash) into the video poker machine and presses the draw button. A hand of 5 cards will be "distributed" on the screen.

The Video Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and bettors will need to now pick which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the bettor would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can choose to keep any number of cards they wish, from all to none.

After the player has decided on which cards he would like to retain, they should press ‘draw’, which will mean that any fresh cards are needed they will be handed out. 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 shown on the payout schedule.

Typically, the lowest succeeding hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money growing for each and every better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to 2 pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It is obvious that the payout schedule can range from game to game, so that discerning bettors are agile enough to pick the most money-making game each and every time.

Once the initial round has completed, 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 cash that might have been won. Additionally, several styles of the game give the enthusiast an opportunity to increase their winnings, in which situation a further hand is played. There are also variations between individual games, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying characteristics to increase playability.