Electronic Poker is a favored game that can be enjoyed in casinos throughout the world, or alternatively at home on your home computer, through a web connection. The game rules are very simple and consist of the player attempting to achieve the highest assemblage of cards possible in order to come away with cash. In this respect it is much the same as a regular game of poker, minus the involvement with competing players. Of course, tactics used in a real-life game of poker, like bluffing, will be useless here.

The game of Electronic Poker starts when the player puts credits (either tokens, credit slips or cash) into the machine and presses the draw button. A hand of 5 cards will then be "dealt" on the screen.

The Video Poker machine also has hold buttons, and players will need to now choose which cards to keep and which to discard. For the cards the gambler wishes to keep, the ‘hold’ buttons need to be pressed so that they light up. The player can decide to keep any amount of cards they wish, from all to none.

After the player has chosen which cards he would like to retain, the player will then press ‘deal’, which will mean that any new cards will be handed out if desired. The round is now finished, with the Video Poker machine scanning the cards to see if it matches any of the winning hands shown on the pay out schedule.

Generally, the lowest succeeding hand on an Electronic Poker machine is a pair of jacks with the award money getting larger for each and every better hand. A list of common winning hands starts with jacks or better, moving on to two pairs, 3 of a kinds, straights, flushes, full houses, four of a kinds, straight flushes and finally royal flushes. It goes without saying that the payout schedule can range from machine to machine, so that experienced enthusiasts are able to select the most profitable machine each and every instance.

Once the initial round has finished, the player can either choose to remain on and try to to maximize their winnings, or they can press the ‘collect’ button to cash out any money that they may have won. Additionally, a few styles of the game allow the player a chance to double their wins, in which instance a further game is played. There are also variations between individual games, with some decks of cards having wild cards and other varying characteristics to increase playability.