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Electronic Poker is a favored game that usually will be enjoyed in casinos around the world, or in your house on your PC, through a net connection. The rules are absolutely straightforward and involve the player attempting to achieve the best mixture of cards possible in order to win money. In this respect it’s very similar as a normal game of poker, apart from the involvement with competing players. Of course, tactics used in a physical game of poker, like tricking, will be useless here.

The game of Video Poker starts when the player puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the machine and pushes the deal button. A 5 card hand will then be "given out" on the screen.

The Electronic Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and players should now choose which cards to keep and which to throw away. For the cards the enthusiast would like 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 want, whether it’s all or none.

After the gambler has decided on which cards he would like to keep, they should press ‘draw’, at which point any new cards are given out if desired. The game is now completed, with the Video Poker machine analyzing the hand to see if it is the same as 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 increasing for each better hand. A list of common winning hands begins with jacks or better, and moves 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 pay out schedule can vary from game to game, so that knowledgeable players are agile enough to select the most profitable machine each and every instance.

After the first round has played out, the player can either decide to stay on and try to to increase their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that they may have won. Additionally, several versions of the game give the player an opportunity to increase their profits, in which case a further game is played. There are also differences among individual machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying elements to enhance playability.