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Free Online Video Poker Program for Teachers and Students!
'I do play poker or Blackjack with older kids/adults but we use my token coins and these are returned to me at the end of the class (thus not gambling). Kids learn the words betting, cheating, cheater, bluffing, bluffer, the kitty, close, fold or out, hit me, bust, I'm out, I'm the winner. All of this is common English, just like many sporting terms, and kids need it to fully understand the language. Cards are a wonderful way to motivate students and teach English. They don't even think it as class work. The fascination with card games is that they involve mental math, chance, skill, social interaction and sometimes cheating or bluffing. They combine these things and have the appeal of interactive computer games.'  Robin Tim Day,  ESL Teacher
Payouts
Royal Flush500 Straight Flush200 Four of a Kind100
Flush50 Straight40 Full House20
Three of a Kind15 Two Pair10 Jacks or Better5

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Program Summary by game creator: Kristina Pfaff-Harris
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[Version 1.0.3 Released 01/25/2003]


SFEPoker lets you set up a simple, online video poker game on your website. Basically, this has no purpose other than having fun and wasting time. The game will deal you 5 cards, each of which you can elect to "Hold" or not. The object is to score as highly as possible. (See the "Payouts" table in the demo game for how many points you get for each set of cards.)

A few people have asked what a card game is doing on a site called "Scripts for Educators." :-) Believe it or not, there are some teachers who like using card games such as this to illustrate concepts such as probability, random chance, and even arithmetic skills.

In this program, we use a single "deck" of cards. On each game, the deck is created, then "shuffled" so that the cards are in a random order. The player's cards are dealt from the deck, and the rest of the deck is saved to deal other cards from.

General Rules of Video Poker

In video poker, the terminology is pretty much the same as in "regular" poker:

Royal Flush: An Ace, King, Queen, Jack, and 10 all of the same suit.
Straight Flush: Any 5 cards in sequence, all of the same suit. Note that if an Ace is involved in a "straight" of any kind, it must either be the lowest or highest card. King, Ace, 2, 3, 4 is not a valid straight, while Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5 is.
Four of a kind: Any four of the same value. E.g. four kings, four tens, etc.
Straight: Any 5 cards in sequence. E.g: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or 9, 10, Jack, Queen, King
Flush: Any 5 cards all of the same suit (e.g. all hearts or all clubs)
Full House: 3 cards of the same value, plus 2 cards of the same value. E.g: three 9's and two Jacks, or three King's and two 4's.
Three of a kind: Any 3 cards of the same value (E.g. three 4's or three Kings)
Two pair: Any two pairs of cards. (E.g. two 4's and two 7's or two Kings and two 9's)
Jacks or Better: This refers to a single pair of cards that are a pair of Jacks or higher. This includes Jacks, Queens, Kings, and Aces.

Warning: online video poker can be addictive, even a simple game like this. While I was writing it, I ended up playing for several hours. You wouldn't think a silly game like this would be able to trick you into playing poker all day, but sometimes it can. :-)

Have FUN!

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