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Video Poker is a beloved game that can be bet on in casinos throughout the world, or in your house on your home computer, using an Internet account. The regulations are very simple and involve the player attempting to get the best combination of cards possible in order to acquire cash. On this account it’s very similar as a regular game of poker, without the interaction with any other players. Of course, techniques used in a real-life game of poker, like tricking, will be useless here.

The game of Electronic Poker begins when the bettor puts credits (whether it’s tokens, credit slips or money) into the machine and pushes the deal button. A five card hand will then be electronically ‘given out’ on the screen.

The Video Poker game also has hold buttons, and bettors will need to now pick which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the enthusiast would like to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons should be pressed so that they illuminate. The player can decide to keep any number of cards they want, from all to none.

After the bettor has decided on which cards he would like to retain, the player will then press ‘deal’, at which point any new cards will be handed out if desired. 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 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 getting larger for each better hand. A common list of winning hands begins with jacks or better, moving on to 2 pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It goes without saying that the payment schedule can change from game to game, so that skillful bettors are agile enough to choose the most money-making game every instance.

As soon as the first round has completed, the player can either choose to continue on and try to to increase their earnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any money that might have been won. Additionally, some versions of the game give the gambler an opportunity to double their winnings, in which case another hand is played. There are also differences between individual games, with some virtual decks having wild cards and other differing characteristics to increase playability.