The Rulebook
The Recipe for Success QPoker is a 9-player social skill game with an innovative merge of two entertaining card games, Texas Hold’em & Quess’em.
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The Recipe for Success QPoker is a 9-player social skill game with an innovative merge of two entertaining card games, Texas Hold’em & Quess’em.
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Texas Hold’em is the planet’s most popular card game which has reached adoption of over 100 million real money players around the world. Since countless online resources provide comprehensive rulebook for Texas Hold’em, in this rulebook we solely focus on the additional fields of QPoker. In case you are not familiar with Texas Hold’em or want to fresh up your memory, feel free to read a complete Texas Hold’em rulebook over here.
is a completely new formation of poker games which was invented by founders of QPoker in 2020. QPoker’s blockchain-based decentralized RNG will raffle and randomly select one of the Texas Hold’em players, whose two private cards, also called as ‘hole cards’, will be displayed for all Quess’em players, anonymously of course. All Texas Hold’em players who fold their hands on preflop, will automatically turn into Quess’em players.
Quess’em players have a chance to bet against one another based on their assump- tion which Texas Hold’em player may have the displayed private hand, the hole cards. On each stage, Flop-Turn-River, remaining Quess’em players (on Flop everyone) can either check, fold, call or bet. Once a Quess’em player has called or bet on behalf of a Hold’em player, the choice cannot be changed on the further stages, neither in Turn nor River. The betting target (Hold’em player) can be the same or different a mong other Quess’em players. In case more than one of the Quess’em players choose the same target, the pot will be equally divided between all the winners. In the event of all Quess’em bettors guess wrong which Hold’em player has the specified hand, all ante fees (multiple big blinds) in the pot will be added as extra for the next round, 50% for Quess’em and 50% for Hold’em, in order to keep both game modes as attractive to participate on the next dealt. Occasionally this may happen several times in a row, generating the base pot of Quess’em to grow to a large amount.
*In Texas Hold'em, each player is dealt two private cards (known as ‘hole cards’) that belong to them alone. Five community cards are dealt face-up, to form the ‘board’ (public cards). The board consists of five community cards, three dealt in the Flop, one in the Turn and one in the River. In QPoker the Quess’em mode gets activated once the required 7-9 players have sat down in the table. For a very short period of time (less than a minute), QPoker runs nor- mally in the standard Texas Hold’em mode. QPoker’s game soware a utomatically raffles a random game table (micro, low, high stakes) and seating for all the players. Naturally, personalized seating is out of option in order to avoid collusion, where two or more players team up trying to cheat their opponents at the table. Due to QPoker’s predetermined seating, deceiving others will be practically impossible.
In Texas Hold’em every round follows the standard small blind & big blind procedure, where the dealer’s button moves clockwise around the table, starting with action to the left of the dealer button. The first two players sitting to the immediate left of the button are required to post a 'small blind' and a 'big blind' to initiate the betting. The small blind is generally half the amount of the big blind. For example, in a $0.5/$1 Texas Hold'em cash game, the small blind is $0.5, and the big blind $1.
In Quess’em, the blind structure differentiates strongly from Texas Hold’em, since the blind fee, ‘ante’, is collected out of every Quess’em hand. The size of the ante in Quess’em is equal to the big blind in Hold’em. The purpose is straightforward, to bring constant action on QPoker, since it wouldn’t be profitable for bots and multi-tabling players to play tight and just keep seeking for glorious hands. Instead, in order to beat the game, one must stay comprehensively present and analyze other players’ actions with a bold risk-taking ability.
In QPoker’s $0.5/$1 cash game (one of the stake levels), the Quess’em ante is always $1, whereas in Hold’em the small blind is $0.5, and the big blind $1. In QPoker’s $0.5/$1 cash game the allowed buy-in varies from the minimum of $100 to the maximum of $200.
In QPoker it is next to impossible to stay on the winners side without participating in the Quess’em betting. The reason is simple, the Quess’em players’ ante fees keep running on every hand, which gener- ates the base pot for Quess’em. This encourages Quess’em players to take action and not let old-fashioned Hold’em grinders to focus solely on playing the Hold’em part. Basically, the antes are forced bets that begin the wagering. Without both the blinds and antes, QPoker would be very boring because no one would be required to put any money into the game.
In Hold’em players could just wait around until they are dealt high pair like pocket kings (KK), and in Quess’em even completely stay out of the game. The blind & ante fees ensure there will be some level of 'action' on every hand, both in Hold’em & Quess’em. Due to the even-handed ante structure, in Quess’em the base pots will naturally be higher than in Hold’em in most of the hands.
The first round of Quess’em takes place after all the Texas Hold’em players have finished the flop. The Quess’em players have a chance to bet on their prediction which Hold’em player was dealt the displayed two hole cards (private hand). The holder of the displayed hole cards can be anyone out of the Hold’em players, also the one who already folded on the flop.
The game order in QPoker is logical and direct. The underneath chart demonstrates clearly in which order Texas Hold’em and Quess’em players take turns.
On preflop all 9 players play the original form of no limit Texas Hold’em. All Hold’em players who fold their hands will automatically turn into Quess’em players. As a result, on flop all players still stay part of the game. Quess’em phase will not be played, even if Hold’em round ends in preflop.
On flop of QPoker, all 9 players get activated. The game order is simple, first all Hold’em players finish their hands and then all Quess’em players will either check/- fold or bet on behalf one of the Hold’em players. Our decentralized RNG raffles a single Hold’em player, whose hole cards (private hand) will get anonymously dis- played for all players in Quess’em mode. The Quess’em players have to weigh up which Hold’em player has the displayed hand based on the game activity. The displayed hole cards can belong to any of the Hold’em players, also to the ones who already folded in the flop.
Turn is the first stage in QPoker in which some of the Hold’em or Quess’em players may already have stepped out of the game (folded in the flop). The turn follows exactly the same game order as the flop. First the remaining Hold’em players finish their actions and then the remaining Quess’em players make their moves.
River’s game order is identical with the previous stages; flop and turn. First the remaining Hold’em players finish their hands and then the remaining Quess’em players do the same. It is noteworthy to mention that in Quess’em the betting target (Hold’em player) cannot be changed once it has been already placed in the previous stages; Flop or Turn.
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