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Electronic Poker is a favored game that is able to be enjoyed in casinos across the world, or alternatively at home on your home computer, through a net account. The rules are absolutely straightforward and consist of the player trying to get the greatest assemblage of cards possible in order to acquire cash. On this account it is much the same as a regular game of poker, without the interaction with 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 player puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or money) into the machine and presses the deal button. A five card hand will then be electronically ‘given out’ on the video screen.

The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ written on them, and bettors should now pick which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the enthusiast wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons must 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 or she would like to retain, the player will then press ‘deal’, at which point any fresh cards will be handed out if desired. The hand is now finished, with the Video Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands shown on the payout schedule.

Normally, the minimum succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money increasing for each better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to two pairs, three of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It definitely goes without saying that the pay out schedule can change from game to game, so that experienced gamblers are agile enough to select the most beneficial ones each instance.

After the initial round has completed, the player can either decide to continue on in an attempt to maximize their winnings, or press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any money that they may have won. Additionally, some styles of the game allow the enthusiast an opportunity to double their winnings, in which case another hand is played. There are also differences between specific games, with some virtual decks including wild cards and other differing aspects to enhance playability.