Video Poker is recognized by such name as usually the game is played by a single player in front of computer screen, where his/her cards are displayed. However, not any obvious reason is there for restricting the game to be played with real cards, a human banker deals with the cards irrespective of a machine.

A stake is placed by a player and he/she deals with five playing cards from a standard deck of 52 cards. Once at a time, the player gets the opportunity of discarding any number of unwanted cards from his/her hand and an equal number of playing cards are replaced with such cards from the deck.

If there is a good poker hand with the player as per his/her satisfaction, then he/she will be paid by the dealer with odds depending upon a fixed measure on the basis of the form of the hand. A pair including Jacks or better can be regarded as a sufficiently good hand of poker.

If the final hand of the player is not good than this hand, then all of his/her stakes will get lost to the dealer. The accurate numbers of odds offered as well as the least number of winning hands are different in every game.

There are some wild cards, can be the deuces or the jokers added towards the deck. Also in some games, there prevails a cumulative jackpot that is attained by a huge hand like a royal flush. The game can be affected by the size of the jackpot available for playing.