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Video Poker is a popular game that is able to be played in casinos around the globe, or in your house on your home computer, through a net account. The rules are very straightforward and consist of the player attempting to achieve the greatest assemblage of cards possible in order to acquire cash. On this account it’s much the same as a normal game of poker, apart from the involvement with any other players. Of course, tactics used in a physical game of poker, such as bluffing, will be useless here.

The game of Electronic Poker starts when the bettor puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the machine and pushes the play button. A 5 card hand will then be "handed out" on the screen.

The Video Poker machine also has buttons with ‘hold’ printed on them, and gamblers should now choose which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the enthusiast wishes to retain, the ‘hold’ buttons must be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they wish, whether it’s all or none.

After the enthusiast has chosen which cards he or she would like to retain, they should press ‘draw’, which will mean that any fresh cards are given out if desired. The game is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine analyzing the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands shown on the payment schedule.

Generally, the minimum winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money getting larger for each and every better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, and moves on to two pairs, three 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 pay out schedule can range from game to game, so that experienced gamblers are agile enough to choose the most profitable game each time.

After the first round has finished, the player can either choose to continue on and try to to increase their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to retrieve any cash that has been won. Further, some styles of the game allow the gambler an opportunity to increase their wins, in which case another game is played. There are also differences between individual games, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other differing aspects to increase playability.