Introduction to CFSPoker

CFSPoker is fully configurable by the player. You can read detail information about these options by selecting the links below:

Game selection

There are multiple variations of the three basic types of video poker: Jacks or Better, Joker Poker, and Deuces Wild, distributed with CFSPoker. In addition, you can configure your own variations of the game if an enabling key has been purchased and installed.

Context sensitive Help

The Help information is available while you are playing CFSPoker. If you have a question, just set the focus to the object that you want help for and press <F1>.

You can select Help & Info from the menu bar and then select Help getting started to launch the OS/2 Information Presentation Facility (IPF) From there, you can select Contents to see the Table of Contents for this document or Index to view a sorted index of the contents of this document.

Audio enabled

If your computer has a sound card, CFSPoker will optionally use it to play sound files for winning hands.

Redisplaying hands

If you've ever played a video poker machine, you might have wanted to look back at the cards that were dealt to you before you played the hand or to look at the cards in some hand besides the current hand. Only casino employees can do that with a video poker machine. With CFSPoker you can redisplay the hands from the current session (hands since the game was launched), and optionally for all the hands you have played that exist in the log file.

Customized card backs

You can personalize CFSPoker with card back images of your choice.

Statistics

Curious about the number of hands you've won or lost, how many hands per hour you are playing? These figures are available from the statistical display facility either when you terminate the session or on demand.

Log file

If you enable the log file facility, every hand you play is captured. This information is available in a form that allows you to analyze it, crunch it, or manipulate it any way you choose.

Color

The background color of the game window can be set to any of 16 colors.

Credits

There are numerous options which control the way that credits are handled by CFSPoker. Unlike a video poker machine which requires that you buy more credits when your balance reaches zero, CFSPoker allows your credit meter to go minus if you are behind and plus if you are ahead (which hopefully will most often be the case). The credit-related options include:

• Whether credits are preserved, game-to-game.
• Whether credits are preserved, session-to-session.
• The ability to add to your current credits on demand.

Deal speed

If you have played video poker machines, you probably noticed that some machines can take forever to deal a hand, while others appear to flash all five cards on the screen at once. The deal speed option can be set on these machines by the casino. Unfortunately, there is rarely any consistency amongst the machines in the same casino.

You can set the deal speed on CFSPoker to a level that you are comfortable with - from clunk, clunk, clunk to the non-delay speed preferred by experienced players.