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Electronic Poker is a popular game that can be gambled on in casinos around the globe, or in your house on your computer, through a net account. The game rules are very simple and involve the player attempting to achieve the highest combination of cards as you can in order to come away with cash. On this account it’s very similar as a classic game of poker, without the involvement with competing players. Of course, techniques employed during a real-life game of poker, like tricking, will be useless here.

The game of Video Poker starts when the player puts credits (whether it is tokens, credit slips or cash) into the video poker machine and presses the draw button. A hand of five cards will be "dealt" on the screen.

The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and gamblers should now pick which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the enthusiast would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can choose to keep any amount of cards they want, from all to none.

After the player has selected which cards she wishes to keep, the player will then press ‘deal’, which will mean that any fresh cards will be dealt if desired. The game is now finished, with the Video Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands printed on the payout schedule.

Generally, the minimum winning hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money growing for each 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 vary from machine to machine, so that discerning enthusiasts are agile enough to pick the most money-making game each time.

Once the first round has played out, the player can either choose to continue on and try to to increase their earnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that has been won. Additionally, a few versions of the game allow the player a chance to double their winnings, in which situation a further game is played. There are also variations among individual machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying aspects to increase playability.