Poker

UOG:Hybrid has poker tables. You read that right! They have poker tables!
Become a professional gambler and play the high roller table.
Pass your time at the low roller tables, testing your luck.

Hybrid poker tables are about Texas Hold'em. Texas Hold'em is played with a standard 52 card deck. The object to make the best five-card poker hand out of seven cards available to you. Five of these cards are community cards dealt to the center of the table to be used by everyone. The other two cards are your own, seen by no one but you. This guide explains the basics and gumps you will encounter. For more information on hold 'em and strategies, try one of the hundreds of poker sites or google.

Things to know

Blinds: Each hand has one small blind and one large blind. A blind is a forced bet to ensure each pot has a value. The amounts for the small and large blind vary according to the table you are at. Players take turns with the blind obligation, the large blind to the left of the small blind, play in clockwise order. Betting begins with the first player to the left of the big blind.

The kicker: When two or more players hold equal hands, the same pair for example, the highest unpaired card will decide the winner. This card is called the kicker. In the case of two equal hands of five cards, the pot is split. There is no sixth card used, not even as a kicker.

Hand Rankings, highest to lowest:

Royal Flush - ace to ten consecutively in one suit

Straight Flush - any five consecutive cards of one suit

Four of a Kind - four cards with the same face value

Full House - a pair and three of a kind

Flush - any five cards from the same suit

Straight - five consecutive cards, regardless of suit

Three of a Kind - three cards with the same face value

Two pairs - two sets of two cards with the same face value

Pair - two cards with the same face value

Where to Go

Poker tables can be found in the following locations:

The Black Pearl
A dark ship docked outside Cove Orc Fort
Found outside cove and down along the mountain

Table 1

small blind: 50 gp

large blind: 100 gp

minimum buy in: 200 gp

maximum buy in: 5000 gp

Table 2

small blind: 5000 gp

large blind: 10, 000 gp

minimum buy in: 200,000 gp

maximum buy in: 1, 000,000 gp

Table 3 (downstairs)

small blind: 12,500 gp

large blind: 25,000 gp

minimum buy in: 100,000 gp

maximum buy in: 2,500,000 gp

Delucia Inn

small blind: 1,000 gp

large blind: 2,000 gp

minimum buy in: 50,000 gp

maximum buy in: 1,000,000 gp

Skara Brae Archers Guild
across the docks and north up the road

Green Table

small blind: 500 gp

large blind: 1,000 gp

minimum buy in: 5,000 gp

maximum buy in: 250,000 gp

Red Table

small blind: 5,000 gp

large blind: 10,000 gp

minimum buy in: 500,000 gp

maximum buy in: 10,000,000 gp

Nujel'm
high roller tables

Red Table

small blind: 50,000 gp

large blind: 100,000 gp

minimum buy in: 5,000,000 gp

maximum buy in: 100,000,000 gp

Black Table

small blind: 250,000 gp

large blind: 500,000 gp

minimum buy in: 20,000,000 gp

maximum buy in: 500,000,000 gp

How to Play

At the head of each table is a dealer or poker signup book.
To join the table, double click the dealer/book.

Clicking cancel or right-clicking the gump will stop you from joining the table.
Click okay to continue (amounts will differ as mentioned above):

The blinds for the table are listed here. The minimum and maximum buy-in amounts are the minimum/maximum amount of gold you may join the table with. The bottom line allows you to change the amount you take to the table, within the min/max restrictions. Choose your amount and click okay.

When you join the table a poker gump will appear over the table with a place for everyone playing. You will always be 'seated' in the bottom seat with others seated according to order of play. Players that have folded will have black names on their gump. Players still in the hand will have white names. The one betting will have a green name. Beneath each name is the amount of gold the player has at the table.

At the start of a hand, each player is given two cards only they can see, their 'down' or pocket cards. The small and large blind will be posted and the bet will go to the first player seated after the blinds.

Each player takes their turn choosing one of the following options:
Call - this matches the highest bet on the table
Fold - declines playing the hand, the only gold lost is by those posting blinds (obligatory bet)
Raise - raise the bet above the highest current bet. The minimum amount you can raise is equal to the high blind at that table.

Once everyone has bet, the next three cards, known as the flop, come up in the middle of the table. These three cards are used by everyone. Again everyone bets in turn.
If no bets have been placed, a player has the option to 'check' the bid. That is, continue to play yet not actually bet anything.

Cards six (the turn card) and card seven (the river card) follow one at a time.
Players have the opportunity to bet or fold after each card.
The winner is the best possible hand using five cards from the two down and the five community cards.
If the best hand is made from the five community cards, all players still in the hand split the pot.

Hand Examples

The following is an example. Note the gump does not appear in this manner in the game.
You will never see the other players pocket cards.

At the end of this hand:
Player A has a pair of Aces with King as high card kicker.
Player B has a pair of Aces with Queen as kicker. He will lose to player A.
Player C has three of a kind with his two nines in the pocket and the communal nine on the table. His hand beats the previous two.
Player D, however, has a stronger hand. Using the communal 9, 10, Jack with his 8 and Queen, he has a straight (eight to queen)
Lastly Player E uses his two diamonds with the three on the table to make a flush, winning the pot.

If you run out gold at the table and you want to wager a little more, clicking the dealer will give you a gump to replenish funds from your bank for the next hand.

To leave the table, step away from the table:

The Jackpot

One of the fuctions of poker on hybrid is a gold sink in a gold-rich economy. The house (server) takes part of each pot for the poker rake. Low roller tables take 10% of each pot for the house, to a maximum of 10k. The high roller tables in Nujel'm also take 10k per pot but there is no maximum limit.
A portion of the poker rake is returned in the form of a jackpot. From the low roller tables, 15% of what's taken by the house is turned in for the daily jackpot. The other 85% taken by the poker rake is 'lost', deleted by the server. From the high roller tables, 10% of the rake is returned for the daily jackpot (90% lost to the server).

The jackpot is handed out once per day, at the same time, to the player with the highest poker hand for the last 24 hours among all tables on the server. If the hand was played at a low roller table, half the jackpot is given out. If the hand is won at a high roller table in Nujel'm, the full jackpot is paid.