%ents; ]> Jochen Tuchbreiter

whynot@mabi.de

Andreas Beckermann

b_mann@gmx.de

1997-2001 Jochen Tuchbreiter, Andreas Beckermann &FDLNotice; 03/02/2001 0.07.00 This is the helpfile of &kpoker;, a little poker game. KDE kpoker kdegames games game poker play cards &kpoker; is a KDE compilant clone of those highly addictive pocket video poker games which are sometimes called Videopoker as well. The latest version of &kpoker; is always avaible at The &kpoker; homepage: http://kpoker.sourceforge.net/ The &kde; homepage: http://www.kde.org You can start a new game two ways: By selecting Game New Game from the menubar. Selecting CtrlN Either way, you will be presented with a dialog box. AI Configure Dialog AI Configure Dialog How many players do you want Will determine if you play a one player game (against the house), or a two player game. Your name Lets you personalize &kpoker; so that it calls you by name (instead of Youyou>). Start money of the players Lets you set the money you start each game with. The names of your enemies lets you set the name of the other player. Show this dialog everytime on startup If this is checked, the first game after you start &kpoker; will show this menu. If this option is not checked, then the game will not show this menu for the first game. When you are satisfied with your settings, click OK, to start the game. Clicking Cancel, will cancel the start of a new game. At the beginning of the game you get $100. You draw five cards and decide which ones you want to keep. You indicate which cards you want to keep by clicking on the face of the card. The word Held will appear above the card. After doing this you draw new cards for those you did not want to keep. This is accomplished by clicking on Draw!. The game now looks if you have any poker hand and gives cash according to the kind of hand you got (see scoring). Now you start over, drawing five cards, deciding which ones you want to keep ... The game ends if you can't pay for another round or if you close the &kpoker; window. Possible poker hands are: Jacks or higher Two cards of the same rank, both Jacks or higher Two pairs Two cards of one rank and two cards of another rank Three of a kind Three cards of the same rank Four of a kind Four cards of the same rank Full House Three cards of one rank and two cards of another Straight Five cards of consecutive rank including the combo ace-2-3-4-5 Flush Five cards of the same suit Straight flush Five cards of the same suit and of consecutive rank Royal flush Ace, king, queen, jack, and ten of the same suit A pair of Jacks or higher cards$5 Two Pairs $10 Three of a kind $15 Straight $20 Flush $25 Full House $40 Four of a kind $125 Straight Flush $250 Royal Flush: $2000 The two player game is very different from a one player game. To start a two player game, select Game New Game on the menubar. This will bring up a dialog. Simply select Two players under the drop down box labeled How many players do you want?. Then click OK. There are four phases to a two-player game: you begin to draw cards then you bet some money after that you exchange your cards then you raise and finally you will see the cards of the other player and the winner will get all the money. Draw You will begin the game with $100. After clicking on the draw button you will get five cards. That's all, here. Bet Now you decide if your cards are good or not. If they are, you bet some money - at least $5 and maximal $20. Just click on the +$5 and similar buttons. Exchange Now you decide which cards you want to keep. Click on them. (Please, if you have a royal flush then don't exchange any cards!). When you think you are ready then click again on the draw button - you will probably get new cards. Perhaps you do not get new cards - then the computer player has quite good cards (or at least not very bad cards) and he has raised. You have to decide to adjust your bet or to get out of the round. By default you will adjust your bet. Click again on the draw button when ready. Raise After you got new cards you are allowed to raise a little bit. It is the same as the bet phase so I don't explain it again. Click on the draw button (which is now labeled with see) when ready. See / Draw I know I said there are four phases and this one is the fifth. But it is nearly the same as the draw phase. You will also see the cards of the computer player and the winning cards are blinking. The winner gets all money. Click on draw to begin a new round! The blinking cards are not necessarily the best cards of that player. Only the cards which caused the win are blinking. So if you have two pairs (⪚ 2 * 2 and 2 * 3) and an ace, but only the ace is blinking, then the computer player also has these two pairs (2 * 2 and 2 * 3) but not an ace. The following sections briefly describe each menubar option. The Game menu consists of three options. CtrlN Game New Starts a new game of &kpoker;. For more information, see the section entitled Starting a new game. CtrlS Game Save Saves your current game to disk. This will replace any previously saved games. CtrlQ Game Quit Quits &kpoker; The settings menu is used to start and pause the game. SettingsShow Menubar This toggles the menubar on or off. If it is off, and you need to use the menubar, you can right click in the playing area of &kpoker; and a menu will appear. You can then select Show Menubar to turn it back on. SettingsShow Statusbar This option will toggle the statusbar on or off. The status bar is located at the bottom of the &kpoker; window, and contains instructions for play, and how much you won on the previous hand. SettingsSound This option will toggle the sound on or off. Settings Blinking Cards If this option has a check beside it, then when you win a hand, the cards which won you the money will blink. If this option is not checked, no cards blink. SettingsAdjust Bet is default. If this option does not have a check in front of it, and you are playing a 2 person game, you will be responsible for clicking Adjust bet, if your opponent raises the stakes, because the default action will be to fold your hand in defeat. If, on the other hand, the option does have a check in front of it, and you are in the same situation, the default action of the game, is to match your opponents bet, and you will be responsible for folding your hand. SettingsSave Settings This saves all your options to your hard drive. These options will be restored automatically when you restart &kpoker;. SettingsConfigure Card Decks This will open a new window where you can select the front and back of the cards for kpoker. SettingsConfigure KPoker This opens a dialog box. AI Configure Dialog There are either one or three options to adjust: The top text box determines in milliseconds how long to delay before showing the next card. This can be used to speed up the deals, if you are not interested in the more realistic default speed. The text box labeled Maximal Bet, determines the maximum bet for each hand. The text box labeled Minimal Bet determins the smallest allowable bet for each hand The Maximal Bet and Minimal Bet lines are not shown in one player mode. In single player mode, only the card delay can be adjusted. As you can see, the changes will not go into effect until a new round is started. F1 HelpContents This invokes the KDE help system starting at the &kpoker; help pages (this document). ShiftF1 HelpWhat's This? This changes the mouse cursor to a combination arrow and question mark. Clicking on items within &kpoker; with this arrow will open a help window (if one exists for the particular item) explaining the item's function. HelpReport Bug... If you have a good idea for the next version of the game, or the program crashes on you, you can select this option to send a bug report to the author. HelpAbout KPoker This will displays version and author information HelpAbout KDE This displays the KDE version and other basic information. Key ComboAction CtrlQQuit &kpoker; CtrlNNew Game CtrlSSave Game CtrlMShow Menubar CtrlF1What is this help F1Help Contents &kpoker; Program copyright 1997-2000 Jochen Tuchbreiterwhynot@mabi.de, Andreas Beckermann b_mann@gmx.de Persons helping me: Chris Holmes - idea of writing this game and for parts of the visual appearence John Fitzgibbon - provided the card images Nico Schirwing - drew the backs of the cards Andreas Beckermann - currently maintaining the game Documentation updated for KDE 2.0 by Mike McBride mpmcbride7@yahoo.com &underFDL; &underGPL; &kpoker; is part of the KDE project http://www.kde.org. &kpoker; can be found in the kdegames package on ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/, the main ftp site of the KDE project. In order to compile and install &kpoker; on your system, type the following in the base directory of the KDE distribution: % cd kdegames % ./configure % make % make install Since &kpoker; uses autoconf and automake you should have not trouble compiling it.Should you run into problems please report them to the KDE mailing lists.