Smoke'em Poker 1.8 - BeerWare by Dave O'Brien
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Software last updated  : April 23, 1996
Readme.txt last updated: April 23, 1996


Description:
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Smoke'em Poker is a freeware game of five-card draw poker.
You play against up to 5 opponents simulated by the computer.


Requirements:
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- Windows 3.1, Windows 95, or Windows NT

            
Installation:
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1. If you received this program as a zip file (e.g. SEPKR17.ZIP),
   do the following (if not, skip to step 2):
   - Create a temporary folder on your hard disk.
   - Move the zip file into that folder.
   - Unzip it.
     Assuming that you have PKUNZIP in your path, you could type:
     PKUNZIP SEPKR18.ZIP
     
2. Run SETUP.EXE.
   This starts the installation program. It will install the
   necessary files onto your hard disk (in a folder of your choice),
   and will create the appropriate icons in the Program Manager
   (or in the Start menu in Windows 95).

3. If you unzipped the file (in step 1), you can then delete the
   temporary folder that you created.

Note: Smoke'em Poker installs to a new folder by default (SEPKR18)
      and creates a new program group (Smoke'em Poker 1.8), so it
      won't affect any earlier versions that you may have installed.
      After satisfying yourself that 1.8 works OK, you may want
      to remove any earlier version(s).


Playing The Game:
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Once you've started the game, click "Options" to change the game settings.
Note that some options take effect immediately, while others don't apply
until a new game is started.

You can start a new game at any time by clicking the "New Game" button.

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)

All standard poker hands are allowed, including ace-low straights
(A-2-3-4-5). Check-raising (sandbagging) can be prohibited.
If a computer player runs out of money, they're out of the game.
If you run out of money, you can end the game or "Watch" the other
players continue.
At any time, you can view statistics and graphs for the current
game, and odds for the current hand.


On-line Help:
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For complete documentation (including a list of what's new),
see the on-line help.


Redistribution:
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Copyright (c) 1995-96 Dave O'Brien. All rights reserved.

Smoke'em Poker is BeerWare - if you like it, have a beer!
This is freeware, and can be freely copied and redistributed.
The only restriction is for commercial CD-ROM compilations
(see the on-line help for details).


Just Deal It!

Dave O'Brien (dobrien@watcom.com)
http://watcgl.uwaterloo.ca/~gmgrimsh/dobrien.html
48 Northmanor Cr.
Kitchener, Ontario
Canada, N2N 3C2