Dween
Dween
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November 5th, 2011 at 4:12:11 PM permalink
I have been tossing around an idea in my head for a new kind of Video Poker game, where a 3x3 grid of cards would be used to give the player multiple Three-Card Poker hands. I'm not looking to patent it or anything, so if anyone wants to take the idea and run with it, have at it.

  • Has a game like this been developed?
  • Would the game benefit from being able to hold and discard (skill-based), or deal and pay off winning hands (slot-machine style)?
  • Would it be over-complicated to make a game where the 9 cards dealt could be swapped to any desired position, making it a much more skill-based challenge?
In my first thoughts of the free-swapping game, a player would be guaranteed to be able to make a flush, so that would almost eliminate that from the pay table... unless players were paid more for 2 or more flushes in one game.

It's been a while since I've exercised my Flash-making muscles, so I wanted to get the community's thoughts on this before I go full-throttle.

Sound fun? Sound feasible? Would both players and casinos like it? Any pros or cons that are quick to come to mind?
-Dween!
MathExtremist
MathExtremist
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November 5th, 2011 at 4:19:16 PM permalink
Sounds a bit like Big E Poker. And you don't need to eliminate flush pays - you just remember that you're taking bets on 8 lines and pay each payline accordingly. It's not too different from UK-style fruit machines if there's no strategy, and if there is a strategy (either hold/discard or swap) then it'll take a long time for each hand. There's also a home-poker variation based on this concept, not surprisingly called "Slot Machine". Rules for "Slot Machine" poker game.
"In my own case, when it seemed to me after a long illness that death was close at hand, I found no little solace in playing constantly at dice." -- Girolamo Cardano, 1563
thecesspit
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November 5th, 2011 at 5:49:31 PM permalink
Allow a single swap. Easier still, allow only a swap between the centre card and one other.

The game would be easier to calculate...
"Then you can admire the real gambler, who has neither eaten, slept, thought nor lived, he has so smarted under the scourge of his martingale, so suffered on the rack of his desire for a coup at trente-et-quarante" - Honore de Balzac, 1829
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