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Smoke'em Poker

Moby ID: 67909

Description

Smoke'em Poker is a single player, freeware game based on five card draw poker. It is played entirely with the mouse. The game is between six players with the computer playing five hands, each hand of five-card draw proceeds as follows:* ante and dealing

  • opening bets (no minimum hand to open)
  • discarding cards (1 discard of up to 3 cards)
  • closing bets
  • the showdown (where you win, lose, or tie)

If a computer player runs out of money they are eliminated, if the player runs out of money they can either abandon the game or sit back and watch to see which AI player wins. The game can be customised, the AI players can be given a skill level, specific name and gender or the game can assign these randomly. The game rules can be also be customised as can the alter the initial cash amount and the betting limits.

Earlier versions of this game had been available on the Amiga but v1.5 is the earliest Windows game.

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21 People (3 developers, 18 thanks)

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Four-card draw on ace-high hands
Changed key shortcuts to allow mostly one-handed play
Improved sound handling and fixed some long-standing sound bugs
Fixed the nasty "black-card" bug that some users encountered
Here's the section where I admit who I've ripped off for ideas ;^) Namely
  • Poker Pete on my old TRS-80[When you beat Pete out of all his money he got up pulled out his six-gun and plugged you. Now there's a way to end a computer game!]
  • Vegas Johnny Draw Poker by Top Score Software on MS-DOS[Pretty it ain't but the features are there the keyboard interface is fluid and the play is easy to follow.]
The players in my local Saturday-night game
  • Gina Paul Rob Karen Lou Derek Gord et al.[who play-tested Smoke'em Poker and without whom it would have taken half the time to program. ;^D ]
Thanks to
  • Rob[especially for losing some huge real-life pots and thereby providing me with a name for my program.
  • Sorry that I couldn't include an animation of the famed Dance-Of-The-Unbelievably-Smoked in this release.
  • Borland[for Delphi an very cool development system that made it easy for a C-hater like me to produce real Windows programs.]
Special thanks to the Delphi developers whose components I used in this program, namely
  • TCards by Indigo Software[for displaying real playing cards - thanks Zane!]
  • Richard Hansen (Enhanced Control Kit : fancy buttons and labels)
  • Pierre Mertz (SciGraph: for the statistics graphing)
  • Kenn Nesbitt (TProfile: for managing INI files)
  • CCPanel by C.I.U.P.K.C. Software [source code used for the colored bevels]
  • Tim Noonan (NeatoMeter: for the load/save progress bar)
Special thanks also to
  • TipTec Development[for Freeman Installer a flexible and easy-to-use program for making professional-quality installations.]

Trivia

BeerWare

Though the game is classified as freeware it is technically 'BeerWare' which, as the author puts it, means - if you like it, have a beer!

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Game added by piltdown_man.

Game added August 22, 2014. Last modified March 9, 2023.