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Electronic Poker is a favored game that is able to be played in casinos across the globe, or alternatively at home on your PC, through a web connection. The game rules are very straightforward and consist of the player trying to achieve the best mixture of cards achievable in order to acquire money. In this respect it is very similar as a regular game of poker, minus the line of contact with competing players. Of course, tactics employed during a real-life game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless in Video Poker.

The game of Video Poker starts when the enthusiast inserts credits (either tokens, tickets or cash) into the machine and pushes the deal button. A hand of 5 cards will be "handed out" on the video screen.

The Electronic Poker game also has buttons with 'hold' printed on them, and enthusiasts will need to now pick which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the enthusiast wishes to retain, the 'hold' buttons should be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they wish, whether it is all or none.

After the bettor has decided on which cards he would like to keep, they should press 'deal', which will mean that any new cards are dealt if desired. The hand is now finished, with the Electronic Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it is the same as any of the winning hands listed in the payout schedule.

Typically, the lowest winning hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the prize money growing for each better hand. A list of common 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 finally royal flushes. It definitely goes without saying that the payout schedule can vary from machine to machine, so that discerning bettors are able to choose the most money-making machine each time.

As soon as the initial round has completed, the player can either decide to continue on and try to to maximize their earnings, or press the 'collect' button to retrieve any credits that might been won. Additionally, several styles of the game give the bettor a chance to increase their profits, in which case a further hand is played. There are also variations among individual machines, with some decks of cards including wild cards and other differing characteristics to increase playability.