Scenario Poker for Dashboard


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The game is Texas Hold 'em Limit Poker. It takes ten minutes to learn and a lifetime to master. You'll be playing in a three-round, shootout tournament against up to 27 simulated opponents. When you run out of chips, you're out. But if you win everyone's chips, you keep advancing to the next round until you're the champion!

	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3

Starting Chips:	4,500	45K	450K
Starting Blinds:	25-50	300-600	3,000-6,000
Starting Limits:	50-100	600-1,200	6,000-12K

The blinds and limits increase every 10 hands, using the structure from the 2009 World Series of Poker's Limit Hold'em Shootout event.
This is limit poker, so all bets (and raises) must be equal to the Big Blind for the first two betting rounds (pre-flop and post-flop). The limit doubles for the last two betting rounds (the turn and the river).
Maximum raises per betting round (by all players): 3
Table stakes are played. This means if you run out of chips by going all-in during a hand, you may only win a side pot consisting of the current pot plus each other active player's call, up to the amount of your stack at the start of the hand.

How to Play

You're in Seat 1. The Dealer button marks the player who gets the advantage of acting last in each betting round. The Small Blind and Big Blind buttons mark the players who must place bets of 10 and 20 chips blind, before seeing any cards dealt. These buttons rotate around the table each hand.

Click the Deal button (or press the D key) to start the hand. Each active player is dealt two pocket cards face down. (Yours will be shown face up, but the other players can't see them.)
The first betting round follows, starting with the player after the Big Blind and rotating clockwise. Here are the actions that can be taken in a betting round:

Check (C key): To choose not to place a bet, but to stay in the pot "for free" until someone else places a bet and forces you to act. Only available when the betting round has not been opened by a previous bet. Also called a pass.
Call (C key): To match, or see any previous bets and stay in the pot.
Bet (B key): To open the betting round by adding chips to the pot.
Raise (R key): To simultaneously call all previous bets and add even more chips to the pot, forcing everyone else to call, raise or fold.
Fold or Check Out (F key): To surrender your cards and any chips you have invested in the pot.

In this first round (only), when the action gets back around to the Big Blind, that player still has the option to check or raise, unless another player has raised.
Once the pot is good (all players have put in the same number of chips), the next card is burned and then three cards are dealt face up to the community hand in the middle of the table (which is shared by everyone). These three cards are called the flop.
The second betting round starts with the first active player after the Dealer.
Another card is burned and then the turn card is dealt.
There is a third betting around.
One last card is burned and then the river card is dealt.
After a fourth and final betting round, there is a showdown between the remaining hands. You make your best five-card poker hand from any combination of your two pocket cards and the five community cards. The best hand takes the pot, but if there is a tie the pot is split.

Before the Flop

The first two cards you're dealt face down are called your hole or pocket cards. If those two cards are considered playable by most pros, Scenario Poker will display its "Group" ranking, according to the chart above.

For example, Ace-King Suited is a Group 1 (premium) starting hand, while King-Nine Offsuit is in Group 8 (playable with caution). Any starting hand that isn't ranked in a group should generally be folded unless you're on one of the blinds or the table is short-handed.

To learn more about the iPoker Card and how to order a nice plastic one, just click it above.

After the Flop

Here are the five-card poker hands, listed in descending order of power. Note that no suit is more powerful than the others:

Straight Flush: Any five cards all of the same suit and in sequential order. Aces can be used high or low. An ace-high straight flush is known as a Royal Flush.
High: A-K-Q-J-T, Low: 5-4-3-2-A
Four of a Kind: Any four cards of the same rank.
High: A-A-A-A-K, Low: 2-2-2-2-3
Full House: Any three cards of one rank, plus two cards of another rank.
High: A-A-A-K-K, Low: 2-2-2-3-3
Flush: Any five cards, all of the same suit. It doesn't matter which one.
High: A-K-Q-J-9, Low: 7-5-4-3-2
Straight: Any five cards in sequential order. Aces can be used high or low.
High: A-K-Q-J-T, Low: 5-4-3-2-A
Three of a Kind: Any three cards of the same rank.
High: A-A-A-K-Q, Low: 2-2-2-4-3
Two Pair: Any two cards of one rank, plus two cards of another rank.
High: A-A-K-K-Q, Low: 3-3-2-2-4
Pair: Any two cards of one rank.
High: A-A-K-Q-J, Low: 2-2-5-4-3
High Card: No pair and no better hand.
High: A-K-Q-J-9, Low: 7-5-4-3-2

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