Governor of Poker
This game is pretty much about buying towns back in the Old West in the state of Texas and becoming the infamous Governor of Poker who pretty much owned towns from having generated a lot of income from playing poker. The game will award milestone stars for some poker feats that the player completes, and it also provides some basic tips along the way to help the player become better at poker. It's more of a point and click interface and just clicking on people will pretty much move the cowboy or cowgirl around the map to go talk to them.
When the game starts, load up a player or create a new player and put it on hard mode. The format is pretty much simple- you will either play a cash game if you're lucky enough to win a tournament in the city or just play tournaments against other players. Once you have enough money, you will be able to purchase all of the businesses that provide some additional business income in the game which can be another way to beat this game. After purchasing all businesses in the stage, the player will eventually go heads-up against a rival character to play for a horse, wagon, or entrance into the next stage.
This is the general strategy I use based on my research of poker and having personally bested a lot of players online and earned millions of play chips. It works very well in cash games for this game. I've played for real money and have had success as well in it, but for play money, it's all based on theoretical stuff so I don't mind sharing how I play in it to be successful. When the player joins a game, the player doesn't really have enough chips because the blinds are normally too big, but this can be an advantage as well because the other characters are in the same situation and will make the game shorter and more interesting.
The Texas Hold-em format is pretty much get dealt two cards face down which is called the preflop and then bet, get dealt three cards everybody uses which is called the flop and bet again, get dealt a fourth card for everybody to use which is called the turn, and finally a fifth card which is called the river before revealing your two cards that were face down to see if you're the winner. The objective of the game is to create the greatest opportunity of winning the hand even if you don't have the best hand, so bluffing (putting out a bet to deceive the other players) is necessary to pull down a nice reward sometimes. I'm going to share how my bluffing strategy works really well to win and also doesn't put all your chips at risk. For Governor of Poker, bluffing at the right time is necessary to win in cash games successfully. Unlike in tournaments, waiting for a strong starting hand (first two dealt cards) will usually do until it's narrowed down to two or three remaining players.
In order to keep the game moving and to have some money in for each poker hand played, two players are forced to put some chips in before being dealt the preflop (two cards handed to everybody face down). A dealer button is passed around to notion who is going to be contributor of some chips. The first one to the left of the dealer button will put in the small blind and the next player after puts in the big blind which is mandatory. The small blind is half of the big blind. The small blind is the worst position in the game of Texas Hold' em because most often the player will fold that hand and lose a small portion of their chips without playing on the flop!
Based on my playing experience, playing the top 25% of the strongest starting hands will mathematically give you an edge against other players and in a nine-player format, it helps me win a hand at least 1 out of 8 times I play to see the flop (first three community cards after being dealt the two pocket cards). Therefore, it means overall that I'm taking advantage of one player and taking his money. Poker is a trendy game of wins and losses, but if the player always looks to play with an edge which is challenging to achieve, he will have a profitable source of income. This game is unlike the real world because the computers you play against are rather predictable in their behavior and will make some strange calls every once in awhile, but my strategy defeats the hardest level this game provides so therefore, that's why I'm sharing.
When I mention suited, it means cards that have the same suit like 10 of hearts and 9 of hearts would be suited. This is important to math calculations in contributing to also a flush possibility which is also a common threat you have to watch out for in a game of poker. AK suited is normally considered to be a pretty dominant starting hand but is still not paired; however, it is useful to respect this hand. Therefore, I have it listed in two areas which should be used in certain occasions. The most important to be aware of is the top starting five hands because Texas Hold' em is also about mathematically dominating other hands. The rest is stated arbitrarily because it's really going to be a small gamble to get the right cards to show up. The starting cards to play with during preflop are (keep this as a list or memorize it) according to my research with the first five being the strongest are and the 's' represents suited:
1. AA
2. KK
3. AK s
4. QQ
5. JJ
6. 10 10
7. 9 9
8. 8 8
9. 7 7
10. 6 6
11. A K s
12. A Q s
13. A J s
14. A 10 s
15-22. A 9 s, A 8 s, A 7 s, A 6 s, A 5 s, A 4 s, A 3 s, A 2 s
23-30. K Q s, K J s, K 10 s, K 9 s, K 8 s, K 7 s, K 6 s, K 5 s
31-34. Q J s, Q 10 s, Q 9 s, Q 8 s
35-37. J 10 s, J 9 s, J 8 s
38-39. 10 9 s, 10 8 s
40-41. 9 8 s, 9 7 s
42. 8 7 s
43-46. A K, A Q, A J, A 10
47-49. K Q, K J, K 10
50-51. Q J, Q 10
52. J 10
This list is definitely among the strongest starting hands in all of Texas Hold' em. This list will be extremely important in beating the snickers off of the computer in Governor of Poker. On my next post, I will try to finish the game playing strategy which includes bluffing the other players properly and stealing their chips.
