Games etc.

 GAMES

Poker

These are "Add-On" games provided by the web hosting software company, in association with Gamesville.com. 

Unfortunately, the first game below, Poker, cannot be made any larger.  What you nerdmaster did to play a game on the first day this this web page "Games Etc." was added to the website was enlarge the MS Explorer view to 200% to 300% or, better yet, 400%. 

After less than one hour of playing Poker using only 1-coin bets, your nerdmaster managed to hit 271 coins.  It seems like an easy game to play. 

Poker Hints:

• You only get credit for a Pair for face cards and aces. 
  

• For some reason, flushes seem easier to get than straights.  Before holding any cards, check for possible flushes. 
  

• If you increase your bet, then the payout increases correspondingly.  To reduce the bet go up to 10 and the next increase will be back to 1 coin. 
  

• Once you "Hold" a card you cannot undo that Hold.  If someone figures out how to "un-hold" a card let the webmaster know because he's not smart enough to figure that out.  

• To start a new game just hit the "Refresh" button on your web browser, or just lose and you'll be asked if you want to play again. 
  

• Have fun, but don't get addicted.  Just because the webmaster has no life doesn't mean that you don't have one because you probably do have a life.   
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Poke The Penguin

Click on either the penguin or the hand repeatedly to see what happens.  You have to typically click 20 or more times for a result.  There are 6-7 different results.  Not as addictive as Poker. 

 

POKER SCORES

►HIGH SCORES◄

Your nerdmaster's high score after less than one hour of playing Poker with one-coin bets.  See the first document below for proof of his score. 

Then, later that day (actually up to 12:30 am which is the next day actually) he scored even higher, but after playing for almost two hours. 

But be careful, if you play too long the game goes into some sort of a "permanent intermission."  The second document below is the proof of that higher score just before the intermission hit.  The third was during the Buffalo Bill's game when frustration and anxiety set in and was really a short game.      

 

OK, after playing a couple more times when my PC when too busy performing a virus scan to do much of anything else I played a couple-few more games. 

On the last two games posted immediately above I decided to try the "Max Bet" option of 10 coins (with ten times higher payouts).  Needless to say, your webmaster won big, each and every time. 

It's obvious that these game developers intentionally made this game easy to win, and win big (i.e., "rigged").  Why?  Oh, maybe because they want us to all try the free version and win over and over. 

After playing this free Poker game and easily winning, our confidence will become built up (and our ego swollen, too). Then we'll go try their on-line betting poker game at Gamesville.  And, we'll likely lose and it'll be our grocery money that we lose, not imaginary coins. 

Need more proof?  OK, just as a test I just tried playing for 30 deals.  I hit 1060 after about 20 deals, thanks to two full houses.  Oh, and if you that someone like me with "ski" at the end of my name doesn't know how to play poker, well... uh... you're right.  Well, I do know a little. 

OK, you're probably thinking about that old joke about Polo... uh... make that Polish-Americans who think that in Poker a full house is three red cards and two black cards.  Well, I know more than that.  Not much more, but more nevertheless.    

So, just a word to the wise: enjoy the free game and trust your nerdmaster when he tells you to avoid the on-line better game from Gamesville.