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How to play jacks or better video poker | Game rules
Poker has many variations and modes of gaming. One of the most common and popular video poker variants is Jacks or Better. It is an easy, quick, and fun game to play if you know how to play five-card poker. It is an excellent alternative to slot machines for players who want privacy and prefer to play alone. You can easily start playing Jacks or Better and don’t even have to be a pro poker player. All you need to know is about the winning hands in poker.
The game contains an element of skill additional to luck, as compared to pure luck when playing slot machines. Usually, games like blackjack, roulette, or online slot machines have a house edge that varies between 90% to 97%. On the other hand, this variant of poker comes with a huge house edge of up to 99.54%. But, you must know the rules and strategies well.
Jacks or Better Rules
Jacks or Better video poker follows the same rules as 5-card draw poker. However, you cannot raise or bluff as you will be playing against the computer, not against other players. Your objective is not to have a winning hand but a strong hand that allows a payout. A table is displayed on the screen that tells you how much your hand is worth. The minimum hand required for a payout on a Jack or Better machine is a pair of Jacks. The payout rate increases in line with the hand’s strength.
Making a ranking hand is vital in Jacks or better. We have outlined the hand rankings in Jacks or Better beginner’s guide, but the best thing about the game is that the information is always in view. The hand rankings and payout table are often displayed on the machine. Thus, all you have to consider is how much you are going to bet. Yet, you should understand what the poker hand rankings are.
The rules of the game are straightforward. The game is played with a standard52 card pack, and no wilds or any additional cards are used. All you need to know is how many credits you are willing to bet on each hand. You can bet anywhere between 1 and 5 coins. Once you select the credits, press the deal button. You will get a deal of five cards. Choose the cards you want to “lock” by pressing the button displayed under each card. Once you lock the cards that you wish to keep, hit the deal button again. This changes the unlock cards. The ultimate hand is compared against the paytable. Your winning amount will be displayed at the bottom of the screen.
This digital video poker variant involves two rounds of cards. In the first round, you can lock/hold cards you wish, whereas the second round is known as the showdown round. You can only hold/lock cards once the cards are dealt with the first time. In the second round, you cannot change or lock cards.
Jack or Better Tips
Once you have mastered poker Jacks or Better rules and feel confident, you must learn video poker tips that can help you improve your game. This way, you will know what to do for each hand you have been given. Speaking of which, below are some tips on how to deal with cards you have been dealt.
1. You must be familiar with the poker hand rankings and the related terms. Doing so will help you to make decisions when the pressure is on.
2. Never try to replace your hand if you have already had one of the following: Full House, Four of a Kind, Three of a Kind, or Two Pair.
3. When playing video poker on the internet, make the most of your winnings and hit the max bet button. This is because if you get a Royal Flush, you will be rewarded handsomely.
4. Never swap a High Pair for a hand; hold it and draw three additionally.
5. If you have four cards short of Royal Flush, discard the fifth card regardless of the situation.
6. If the primary cards dealt with you are a Flush or a Straight, keep them unless you are only one card away from reaching a Royal Flush.
7. If you don’t have any combinations or cards higher than Jacks, you must draw all five cards.
You may also read: 7 poker tips for beginners
Play free Jacks or Better
Once you are familiar with the rules, practising the game virtually is a great idea before you head over to play for real money. Playing Jacks or Better online for free will help you master the basics and become a pro player. Practising is crucial for beginners poker players and trying different techniques can open new ways to increase your winning chances. There are tons of sites helping you do that, and one such website is Gamentio. It allows you to play online poker free anytime, anywhere. Once you feel confident about your gameplay, you can then gamble for real money. So, grab your phone, download the Gamentio app for free, practice free Jacks or Better and see what all the excitement is about.
All the best!
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Unity Vs Unreal: Which game engine is better to build 3D card games?
Card games are amongst the oldest category of games and have been popular for ages. Ever since they are available online, they are even more sought-after for their accessibility, game variety, pace of play, availability of multiple tables simultaneously, and more. It wouldn’t be wrong to say that online card games have taken the video game industry by storm, known for its strategic gameplay and engaging mechanics.
Let’s look at what really goes into making a good 3D card game.
Card Game Development: The Process and Requirements
To create a 3D card game, you need —
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Game Concept
Game Concept is an idea for a game that includes the game's vision, game mechanisms, features, and goals. It acts as a guide for card game developers throughout the development process. It must include information such as your target platform, genre, audience, theme, story, characters, gameplay, art style, sound, and UI UX design plans..
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Good Research
Game research focuses on understanding player’s behavior, interactions, and experiences in video games. This data is used to improve games, remove bugs, and enhance player experience.
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A Good Card Game Development Company
When looking for a card game development company, choose one that’s reliable with a skilled team of card game app developers, concept artists, designers, testers and marketing team that will deliver high-quality, revenue-generating game software services.
Logic Simplified is a leading game development company with game app developers who are experts in game logic. Our card games are highly responsive and feature-rich, with stunning designs, seamless 2D/3D animations and quick card swipes. We create custom card games, and also custom solutions for classics like Poker, Rummy, Blackjack, Solitaire, and others. Our games come packed with features like reward and referral programs, multi-platform capability, anti-fraud system, in-game rewards, social media integration, and so on
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Game Prototyping
This involves creating a raw, playable version of the game to test the video game’s mechanics and functionality and refine the user experience, gameplay, mechanics, and art direction. Prototyping at an early stage always allows us to experiment with our game concept, receive feedback, identify problems, and iterate on our design.
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Game Development
Post prototyping, the game is developed by choosing the creative software, deciding on a game engine, and selecting a programming language to code the game. During this stage of development, developers start scripting code for the game.
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Resolution of all Issues
Fixing issues at the earliest stage of the game development process makes sure the game meets a required standard and has all the necessary features, settings, designs, sound effects and visual effects that it needs. The usability of the game is optimized to enhance the overall user experience of the game.
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Quality Assurance
The game is tested for its ease-of-use and intractability and any bugs, glitches or errors are fixed. We make sure that our game is accessible to all, including players with disabilities.
Unity Vs Unreal Engine? Factors to Consider When Choosing the Right Engine
It is during the initial stage of the card game development process that we decide upon the game engine. Unity versus Unreal is an important distinction for most card game developers. While the former is known to be suitable for mobile and web applications along with its performance development, the latter is considered great for huge large-scale projects that require high performance from the hardware. The decision for choosing the game engine depends on several factors, like the project, its requirements, the team, their personal style, and the target audience.
So this blog is about to help you make that decision for your next card game project. It will also help you decide whether you sign-up for a Unity game development company or go the Unreal way for your game idea.
Let’s look at the key features that our company has leveraged over the years to create good 3D card games applications.
UNITY 6
- User-friendly visual interface
- Target Audience - Mostly indies, coders AAA-game studios, indies, artists
- Requires Optimization
- Coding includes C#, Prefab, Bolt
- Third-party tools
- Vast Asset Store
- Manual Optimization
- Free or a runtime fee
- A vast and diverse community
UNREAL 5.4
- Huge learning curve
- Target Audience - Mostly AAA-game studios, indies, artists
- Photorealistic visualizations
- Coding includes C++, Blueprints
- Built-in blueprints
- High quality assets
- Advanced Tools
- Royalty model
- A dedicated and engaged community
UNITY OR UNREAL? - The Logic Simplified View
Image Caption: 3D Rummy Game developed by Logic Simplified
Unity 3D is popular for many reasons. For years, game app developers at Logic Simplified have been using Unity 3D for its tools.. The platform’s seamless integration of 2D and 3D elements, along with its advanced physics engine, ensures that Unity 3D games deliver engaging and immersive gaming experiences. The ProBuilder editor has not just helped us build simple geometry but perform detailed editing and UV unwrapping. We have leveraged Unity's seamless capabilities with digital content-creation tools such as Maya. Such tools have helped us enhance and refine models with additional detailing and polishing. Using Unity and its advanced capabilities, we have successfully developed 3D card games with an intuitive interface for seamless navigation through game components, rules, and scoring. The Unity Asset store offers access to trending 3D, GUI, environment, and scripting assets. This has helped our game developers expedite the process of card games development and allowed us to deliver an interactive and immersive gaming experience to the users.
On the other hand, Unreal has advanced 3D modeling capabilities that include 3D modeling services that can improve the look and feel of a 3D card game in architectural visualization and cinematic production. Its powerful rendering capabilities have helped our game designers create visuals that are rich in detail and quality. From setting up the basic screen structure to creating geometries - Unreal engine allows us to modify and assemble a range of primitive mesh to form complex structures. We use its material editor to create custom shaders that improve the visual quality of textures with effects like shadowing and reflections. It is a great platform for various stages of 3D modeling. Unreal engine photorealism replicates natural light, materials, and physics in a way that allows our artists and designers to create more intricate and authentic card game 3D elements like cards, deck, coins, characters, and more. The Unreal engine marketplace offers characters, plugins, blueprints, animations, and more and improves a card game's visual identity, story, interactivity, and gameplay by making them more visually stunning and fun to play.
Logic Simplified has experience and expertise in emerging technologies, and is a leading Unity and Unreal game development company. We make use of our library of ready code to provide custom card game solutions to clients, globally. Our card game apps stand out in the market as highly creative and cost-efficient solutions, with the social and viral aspects fully covered in the game development process. To know more about our services, or share your game idea, contact us at enquiry@logicsimplified.com
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About Us
Dear Players, it’s time to meet the crazy geniuses who contributed in various ways and made Gamentio a fantastic reality. Here they are, the Heroes of Gamentio!!!
Our Team
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Sumeet Arora
Architect and Lead Developer
Gamentio's Architect
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Ankit Arora
Marketer
The Marketing Wizard
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Nitin Joshi
Senior Research Analyst
What do you want to know? Just ask...Go ahead...Anything!
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Shiwani Arora
Manager Operations
Managing operations and ensuring their optimal execution!
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Rumika Joshi
The Critic
She has an eye for any variance and hands to break any stable product.
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Sushil Kakkar
Marketing Lead
The resident marketing whiz kid and a poker veteran
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Nikhel Bisht
Game Developer
When I code, I code to play
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Gaurav Rawat
3D Character Artist & UX Designer
A Visualizer. A Wanderer. A Restless Soul.
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Hemant Nayal
CG Texturing Artist
The Canvas I use explores the depth of my Palette.
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Ritesh Rajvanshi
Game Developer
I don't think, I develop.....I don't Game,
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Dinesh Kumar
AI Programmer
I am the Creator and Teacher of those smart people ( AI ) who don't exist.
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Inder Singh
Developer
One of those wizards who knitted this beautiful game with finesse & yet miles to go
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Priyanka Puspwan
UI Designer
I take pride in designing flawless & stunning UI Designs.You Imagine & I'll Design it !!
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Gaurav Gupta
Software Engineer Backend (Java)
I engineer the Code around the Logic.
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Drishti Sethi
Game Developer Backend
Play on Code on. Game for life.
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Kailash Khanduri
3D Technical Artist
If you can think impossible...you can make it possible
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Mohit Joshi
Quality Analyst
You name it, I test it! Achieving excellence with accurate and reliable results.
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Sumit Kumar Verma
Quality Analyst
Well, I don't make software, but I sure make it better through testing.
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Manish Bajpai
Concept Artist
Give a shape to your imagination and guide you to next phase
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Suman Uniyal
Animator
The animator who imparts energy, vitality and spirit to 3D Model.
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Ankita Panwar
Game Developer
I Code to rule..!!!