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HOLD'EM POKER Ver. 1.01a CGA or Monochrome (C) Copyright 1988 by Raymond M. Buti All Rights Reserved United Innovations Plus Post Office Box 21081 Castro Valley, Ca. 94546 TABLE OF CONTENTS TERMS ........................................................ 1 REGISTRATION AGREEMENT ....................................... 1 DISTRIBUTION DISK ............................................ 2 INTRODUCTION ................................................. 2 BASIC RULES OF HOLD'EM ....................................... 3 STARTING HOLD'EM ............................................. 3 HARD DISK INSTALLATION ....................................... 3 BOOT SCREEN .................................................. 4 MAIN SCREEN .................................................. 4 MAIN SCREEN OPTIONS .......................................... 4 DEAL - F1 .................................................... 4 SETUP OPTIONS - F3 ........................................... 5 STATISTICS SCREEN - F7 ....................................... 6 HIGH GAMES - F8 .............................................. 7 PLAYERS OPTIONS .............................................. 7 BETTING ...................................................... 7 WINNING THE POT .............................................. 8 RANK OF HANDS ................................................ 8 LATEST REVISIONS ............................................. 9 SHAREWARE LIMITATIONS ........................................ 9 SETUP LIMITATIONS ............................................ 9 UPGRADE POLICY .............................................. 10 REGISTRATION FORM ........................................... 10 TERMS This software is distributed as ShareWare. What this means is, you a granted free license to use, copy and distribute this software as often as you wish so long as the following restrictions have been met: 1 - When distributing this software, it must be in its original unmodified form. The ARCed or Compressed .EXE version of this software will only be distributed to Bulletin Board Systems and computer information exchanges, i.e. The Great American Dream Machine (415)-581-3019, GEnie, Delphi, The Source, Compuserve etc. 2 - Prior written consent from United Innovations Plus must be obtained before a fee or charge is made for copying or distribution, with the exception of the computer information exchanges as mentioned above. 3 - This software shall not be included with other programs, goods, services, etc. without prior written consent from United Innovations Plus with the exception of the computer information exchanges as mentioned above. REGISTRATION AGREEMENT United Innovations Plus requires you to register this software if you plan on using it. Registered users will receive the latest version with all options available, full support and notification of later releases. Please note that not all options and functions are available with this Shareware release. To register your copy of this software, please use the Registration Form and make checks payable to United Innovations Plus. Page - 1 DISTRIBUTION DISK The following files should be contained either in the HLDMV11a.ARC file or on your HOLDEM POKER Shareware diskette: HOLDEM.EXE Main program HOLDEM.DOC Documentation HSTART.BAT Used to read or print documentation and install Hold'em to Hard Disk HINTRO Used by HStart.Bat HPRT Used by HStart.Bat HHD Used by HStart.Bat HREPLY.COM Used by HStart.Bat INTRODUCTION Welcome to Hold'em Poker, one of the most popular poker games found in Las Vegas, Nevada. Hold'em is played in most of the major casinos as well as many card clubs in many states. With the popularity of Hold'em, more and more card clubs have been trying to legalize this form of poker in cities where card clubs are legalized. I hope they all succeed. This computer game not only will give you hours of entertainment and enjoyment, but it will also allow you to sharpen up your skills as a Hold'em Poker player. For the novice, you can learn how to play the game in the comfort of your own home or office ( assuming your boss is on vacation ). Hold'em was written to follow the general rules set forth in most of the card clubs. Not all card clubs have the same exact rules as others. Although the rules may vary slightly between card clubs, you'll find that these apply to most games. The documentation has been written with the novice in mind. Those that require more information on Hold'em may either write me or purchase one of the many books describing Hold'em in detail. Page - 2 BASIC RULES OF HOLD'EM Hold'em is usually played as either a No Limit game or as a Fixed Limit game. In this game, you will be playing a 10-20 Fixed Limit game. This is called a Fixed Limit because all bets will be in increments of either $10 or $20 depending on which round of betting the players happen to be in. A standard deck of 52 playing cards is used. Hold'em will follow the same rules as those found in most of the more popular gambling casinos. There will be a house dealer that will deal for all the players, keep track of the pot, players bets, and to take a house cut out of each pot. This will be a nine-handed game. Your computer will be playing eight of the players, leaving the ninth player for you. At the beginning of each hand of Hold'em, the dealer will first be sure that all players have placed an ante into the pot. When the pot is correct, the dealer will proceed to deal out two cards to each player. The cards will be dealt starting with the first person to the dealers left until all nine players have two cards. The eight computer players will have their cards dealt face down, and your hand will be dealt face up. There will be one round of betting on these two cards. The dealer will then deal three cards face up in the middle of the table. These cards are called the "Flop". The Flop cards are community cards and used by all players. There will be another betting round. The dealer will deal another card face up in the middle of the table. This is known as "Fourth Street". Fourth Street is also a community card. There will be another betting round. The dealer will deal the last card face up in the middle of the table. This is known as "Fifth Street", also a community card. We then have the last round of betting. The winner is the player with the best poker hand using five out of seven cards, two in the players hand and the five in the middle of the table. STARTING HOLD'EM To play Hold'em, be sure your backup copy is in Drive A. Type in the name "HOLDEM" from your Dos prompt and press the ENTER key. Example: A> Holdem [ENTER] Keep your disk in Drive A until you've quit playing Hold'em. When you quit playing, Hold'em will write to your default drive, in this case, Drive A. HARD DISK INSTALLATION If you have a Hard Disk and wish to have Hold'em installed on it, you may copy HOLDEM.EXE to your selected directory using your Dos COPY command or press F3 from the main menu shown when you ran START.BAT. Page - 3 You will create a directory on Drive C called \Games and copy the required files into that directory. When the installation is complete, you may run Hold'em by typing HOLDEM from your Dos prompt and press the ENTER key. Example: C:\Games\Holdem [ENTER] BOOT SCREEN Once loaded, Holdem will display its Boot screen. This will show you the version number, copyright notice, etc. You may press any key once you've read this screen. MAIN SCREEN The main screen consists of a house dealer, a section of the table for the Flop, Fourth Street, Fifth Street, and an area for the pot. The players hands will be dealt by the house dealer in a half circle around the table. Each player will have a number beside his cards representing his playing position at the table. Surrounding one of the numbers will be a BUTTON which indicates who will be dealing that hand. The house dealer will deal for that player. The lower portion of your screen will display your options you currently have available. MAIN SCREEN OPTIONS Options available prior to each deal are: F1 - Deal Deals next hand of Hold'em. F3 - Setup Menu Allows you set up your own rules. F7 - Statistics Displays house and players statistics. F8 - High Games Displays the top 15 players. F10 - Quit Ends Hold'em and returns you to Dos. First time users should press F3 and go directly to the Setup Menu. DEAL - F1 When your ready to play another hand of Hold'em, just press the F1 key or ENTER. The house dealer will verify that the Button is placed in front of proper player, then verify that all players have put in their ante. The house dealer will then deal out two cards face down to each player. Your hand will be dealt face up. Play begins with the first person to the dealers left. As each player acts, you will notice a letter appear by the players hand. Those letters represent the action the player took. Here are the list of letters and their meanings: "B" player has made an opening bet. "C" player has called a bet or raise. "R" player has raised or re-raised. "P" player has passed or checked the hand. "S" player has surrendered (Your hand only). Page - 4 If a player folds, the entire hand is erased. The pot will increment according to each players decisions. SETUP OPTIONS - F3 The Setup Menu will allow you to set up various options available in Hold'em. Your screen will show the following: 1 - Practice Mode Off 2 - Teaching Mode Off 3 - Show Shuffling On 4 - Sound On 5 - Allow Check/Raise Off 6 - Display Player Bets On 7 - Erase Folded Hands Bets On 8 - Fast Play on a Fold Off 9 - Save High Scores Off 0 - Save Statistics Off A - Playing Speed (0-9) 5 B - Playing Position (1-9) 5 C - House Take (0-9%) 5% D - Time (Every 15 hands) $2 E - Ante ($1-$8) $2 F - Save Current Settings HOLDEM.DAT These are the default settings that come with Hold'em. You may change the above options by pressing any one of the numbers from 1 to 0 or A to E. Pressing the letter B will save your settings to the default filename HOLDEM.DAT on your default drive. 1 - Practice Mode will allow you to play Hold'em without altering any of the players standings. 2 - The Teaching Mode instructs you during the course of play. This is designed for the novice player in mind. Player standings are not altered during this mode of play. 3 - Turns your shuffling display On or Off. 4 - Turns your sound On or Off. 5 - Many clubs allow players to Check and Raise. You may set this to either allow checking and raising or not. This may be set either On or Off. 6 - This will allow you to display the total amount each player has invested in the pot. Set to either On or Off. NOTE: Ante will not be included in this display. 7 - Users may wish to have the Display Player Bets (option #6) view the bets each player has in the pot even after a player has folded. When set to Off, folded bets are shown. NOTE: This has no effect unless Option 6 is set to On. Page - 5 8 - When this option is set to On, players actions will finish at the fastest playing speed. This is for players that do not wish to watch the computer finish playing out their hands. 9 - If you would prefer not to save high scores to disk, set this option to Off. 0 - If you do not wish to save the statistics to disk, set this option to Off. The statistics contain the house commission, total hands played that is shown on the Statistics Screen. A - This will allow you to change the speed in which the dealer deals the cards. This will also change the speed of the actual game. 0 being the fastest speed and 9 the slowest. B - You are allowed to switch playing positions with another player at any time prior to a new hand. Once the hand has been dealt, you obviously must remain in that position. C - The house makes its money in one of two ways. By either taking a house cut from each pot or by collecting time from each player, usually every 30 minutes. When this setting is above 0, the house will collect that percentage out of each pot as its commission. There will be no commission taken from pots that only contain the antes and one bet. This eliminates a player having to pay a commission when all he wins are the antes. When the House Take is set to 0, the commission will be taken every 15 hands by the means of Time Collection (See option 0). D - This option has no effect until the House Take (Option 9) is set to 0. You are able to change the amount of commission taken every 15 hands from $2 to $8. E - This will allow you to change your ante from $1 to $8. F - You may save and change these settings at anytime prior to the start of a new hand. To leave the Setup Menu, press ENTER. Pressing ENTER will take you back to the Main Screen. Pressing F1 will also take you back to the Main Screen, but will start dealing the next hand. STATISTICS SCREEN - F7 The Statistics Screen will show all the players profit/loss. Your playing position will be highlighted with two markers. You'll also be able to view the current hands dealt during this session of play, the total Hold'em hands played, average size of the pot, the house take for this session, and the total house take. To leave the Statistics Screen, press ENTER. Pressing ENTER will take you back to the Main Screen. Pressing F1 will also take you back to the Main Screen, but will start dealing the next hand. Page - 6 HIGH GAMES - F8 When pressing F8, you will be able to view the Hold'em Hall of Fame. This screen shows the top fifteen money winners. Scores are saved when you quit playing Hold'em so long as you have the Save High Scores option set to On. Your score will be added to the Hall of Fame if your winnings exceed the lowest score on the top fifteen. In the event one of the computer players has a greater score than yours, the computer player will be added to the Hall of Fame along with yours, assuming your score still qualifies. If your score qualifies, your are asked to type in your name. You are allowed up to twenty-one characters. If you press the ENTER key without entering your name, your score will not be saved. When you have quit playing Hold'em, the High Score Screen will be displayed prior to returning to DOS. Scores are saved to your default drive under the filename of HOLDEM.HIS. PLAYERS OPTIONS When you press F1 from the Main Screen, the cards are dealt out for a new hand of Hold'em. When it's your turn to act, your options will be shown on the lower part of your screen. If the pot has not been opened, it has either been checked up to you or you are first to act. Your options will be either to Bet, Pass (Check), or Surrender. You may not fold unless there has been a bet. You may however decide you would finish playing the hand no matter what happens. If you feel this way about your hand, press "S" for surrender. You will remain in the pot unless a bet has been made, at which time your hand will be folded. Once the surrender has been used, you may not change your mind and re-enter the rest of the hand. If there aren't any bets made once you've surrender, then you will remain in the pot for the showdown. If there has been a bet and you have not surrendered, then your options will be either to Call, Raise or Fold. This procedure works the same in all betting rounds. BETTING The betting in Hold'em is restricted to the limit of the game. You are playing a $10-$20 Limit game. The betting during the first round and during Flop will have bets in increments of $10. During Fourth and Fifth Streets, the betting is set at $20. In Limit Hold'em, you have two rounds of $10 bets and two rounds of $20 bets. Page - 7 WINNING THE POT After the last round of betting, if more than one player still remains in the pot, the cards are all turned face up and the house dealer will take his cut of the pot and distribute the remainder of the pot to the winner or winners of the hand. In the event of a tie hand, the pot will be split among the players holding the best hand. Any odd amount that cannot be split evenly among the players will be left in the pot for the next hand. In Hold'em, a pot could be split among two or more of the players. As an extreme example, suppose all players remain in the pot to the end. The Flop, Fourth Street and Fifth Street show an Ace, King, Queen, Jack, 10 all in hearts. Guess what? All the players have a Royal Flush. The pot is split among all the players. You would have broke even if the house didn't take a commission out of each pot. RANK OF HANDS Poker is played with a standard deck of 52 cards. Occasionally a joker will be used in some games. Lowball and Draw tend to use the joker more often than other forms of Poker. Any time a poker game has more than five cards envolved, you must use the best five to determine your best poker hand. Hold'em has seven cards, two for each player and a total of five exposed community cards used by all players. You must choose any five of the seven cards to make your hand. The order of hands, best to worst are: Hand Best Worst Royal Flush A K Q J 10 ----- Straight Flush K high 5 high Four-of-a-Kind 4 Aces 4 Deuces Full House Aces full Deuces full Flush Ace high 7-5 high Straight Ace high 5 high Three-of-a-Kind 3 Aces 3 Deuces Two Pair Aces & Kings 3's & Deuces One Pair Aces Deuces No Pair (High Card) Ace high 7 high Page - 8 LATEST REVISIONS 1 - To re-deal another hand, you may now use the ENTER or F1 key. 2 - The C)heck key has been replaced with the (P)ass key. The "C" key was used for checking and calling which was not such a good idea. 3 - In addition to either checking or betting, the S)urrender option has been added. A player may decide by viewing his first two cards, he wishes not to play the hand no matter what. When you press S)urrender you are resigning from any further action if a bet has been made. If there hasn't been any bets, you stay in the pot until the end of that hand. Once you've surrendered, the computer will finish playing your hand by folding once a bet has been made or checking if no bets have been made. Surrender is not used by the computer players. 4 - Added an option to have the rest of the hand speeded up when the player has folded or surrender. This may be set in the SetUp Menu. When set to ON, as soon as you fold, the hand is finished at the fastest speed. You will not have to sit and watch the computer finish playing at a slower speed unless you wish to. 5 - Winning hand numbers now blink as well as being highlighted. 6 - The Statistics Screen has been replaced with a new one. This one is easier to locate the players current standings. 7 - Added the options to save high scores and statistics. 8 - The high scores will now show the hands played. 9 - Added the amount required to call or raise a pot. 10- Added a lot of sound during hand action. SHAREWARE LIMITATIONS This Shareware version is a full working copy with a few options left available for Registered users. None of these will interfere with the playing of the game. SETUP LIMITATIONS 3 - Show Shuffling is always On. 4 - Sound is always On. 5 - Check/Raise is not allowed. 6 - Display players bets is always On. 7 - Erase Folded Hand bets is always On. 8 - Fast Play on a Fold is always Off. 9 - Save High Scores always Off. 0 - Save Statistics always Off. A - Playing speed is always set at 5. B - Playing position will always be player #5. E - Player Ante will remain at $2. F - SetUp file is saved in Registered Version The total hands played is limited to 10 hands each time you play Hold'em. This is a sufficient amount of hands to play for a Shareware version. Page - 9 UPGRADE POLICY Registered Users will be notified when upgrades have been made available. REGISTRATION FORM Holdem Ver 1.01a Registration Fee 5 1/4" diskette $15.00 _______ Registration Fee 3 1/4" diskette $17.00 _______ All 19 Shareware versions on 5 1/4" diskette $ 8.00 _______ All 19 Shareware versions on 3 1/2" diskette $10.00 _______ Foreign orders add $ 5.00 _______ Name ______________________________________________________ Address ______________________________________________________ City ___________________________ St. ______ Zip ___________ Computer System _______________________________________________ Comments & Suggestions _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ United Innovations Plus Make checks payable to: Post Office Box 21081 Castro Valley, CA 94546 Other software programs from United Innovations Plus * Shareware programs will run on CGA or Monochrome ALL REGISTERED VERSIONS run on either CGA or Monochrome *Lowball Poker Draw Poker Baccarat Roulette DCS EU *Pyramid Solitaire Kill DX *Blackjack Connoisseur CDate *Chuck-a-Luck *SuJu *Holdem Poker *Knock Poker *Osmosis Solitaire *Accordion Solitaire *Red Dog *Poker Solitaire Page - 10