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Electronic Poker is a favored game that usually will be wagered on in casinos around the world, or in your house on your personal computer, through a net account. The rules are very simple and involve the player attempting to get the best mixture of cards as you can in order to come away with cash. On this account it is much the same as a normal game of poker, without the line of contact with any other players. Of course, techniques employed during a real-life game of poker, like tricking, will be useless here.

The game of Electronic Poker begins when the gambler inserts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the video poker machine and presses the draw button. A five card hand will then be electronically ‘distributed’ on the screen.

The Electronic Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and players will need to now pick which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the bettor would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they want, whether it’s all or none.

After the bettor has decided on which cards she wishes to keep, they should press ‘deal’, at which point any new cards are handed out if desired. The game is now finished, with the Video Poker machine scanning the hand to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands shown on the payment schedule.

Typically, the lowest winning hand on a Video Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money increasing for each and every better hand. A common list of winning hands begins with jacks or better, and moves on to two pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and last but not least royal flushes. It should be known that the payout schedule can vary from machine to machine, so that skillful players are agile enough to select the most profitable game every instance.

After the first round has played out, the player can either choose to stay on and try to to maximize their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any credits that they may have won. Additionally, some styles of the game give the player an opportunity to increase their profits, in which situation a further game is played. There are also variations between specific machines, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other differing characteristics to increase playability.