Chronogamer

I find Poker Solitare to be addicting too. I've been tempted to pick it for the HSC.

 

Here is a thread that talks about what the 3,340 layout should look like.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=71392

 

I don't care for regular poker or blackjack, but Poker Solitare is an overlooked gem and reason enough to own this cart.

 

I'm eager to read your upcoming Superman review. I hope you end up enjoying the game as much as I do.

In the stud poker game here, as in real poker, the goal isn't to win as many hands as possible (the cards determine how many hands you can win), but rather to have the number of chips wagered on the hands that you win be larger than the number wagered on the hands you lose.

 

In Casino, even with both difficulty switches on "A", this is pretty easy to do. With both difficulty switches on "B", it's absurdly easy. Place minimum bets unless either you know you're going to win (place maximum bets) or lose (fold). With both difficulty switches on "B", you'll know whether you win or lose before placing the last bet, so it's easy to cut your loss to 40 chips on the hands you lose, while collecting 140 on the hands you win. Since you'll win about half the hands, you have a 3.5:1 advantage which is pretty overwhelming.

 

Even with both switches on "A", if you simply ignore the hidden cards and play based upon the hands that are visible, you'll still come out ahead. The only subjective question is when a hand isn't good enough for a maximum bet but is good enough for a smaller one. Even if one simply placed a minimum bet in all such situations and never folded, one would still come out well ahead.

Ah! Nine in the center and the rest is obvious. I wasn't thinking outside the box. Actually I was thinking at the bottom of the box when I should've been thinking in the middle of it . Thanks for the link to that thread Christophero! I have no doubt I'll enjoy Superman (I used to enjoy it back in the day), I'm hoping I can present it to my kids in a way that they will enjoy it, too.

 

Supercat, as always, thanks for your insights as well. I covet your ability to explain things so clearly!

My dad bought the VCS for the purpose of playing Casino and Video Chess. I remember him playing Casino every night non-stop for at least a year. I played it myself a couple times but I never got into it as much as he did. After he was done with the VCS (and gave it to me. ), he pretty much stopped playing video games altogether (although he had an electronic chessboard he played for a couple more years).

This is probably the best card game so far, in all platforms I have tried. The different games are all very welcome.

 

I didn't get addicted to Poker Solitaire because, honestly, I need to move on quickly. :-) I'm curious though, to what's the layout of that "perfect game".

 

*thinks for a few minutes*

 

Hah, I got it! I was apprehensive that the 9-in-the-middle hint wouldn't be enough for me to solve it, but yeah, after that the rest is obvious. I feel so proud of myself now.

On 1/25/2013 at 11:24 PM, Nelio said:

I didn't get addicted to Poker Solitaire because, honestly, I need to move on quickly. ? I'm curious though, to what's the layout of that "perfect game".

 

I only vaguely remember enjoying Poker Solitaire! It's frustrating to read some of these entries sometimes as it feels like they were written by someone else. Life and memory is weird. There's something in us that makes us think we've been the same person our whole lives. A continuity of sorts, but what if that's just a particular combination of neurotransmitters that gives us this "feeling" that we've always been the same person? People have head injuries or disorders that can cause complete breaks in who they remember being. Anyway, I'll probably forget, but now I want to try playing that Poker Solitaire game again.