Millennium Ride

• Overview
• Setting your preferences
• Joining a table
• Playing
• Payout table

Overview

Millennium Ride is a fun and exciting poker-styled game played with a standard deck of 52 cards. It is a variation of 5-card Stud, but differs in that you don't have to beat a dealer's hand or other players. The goal is merely to compile a winning poker hand, with a minimum of a pair of 10s.

It's up to you to decide when to go for the big bucks or when to minimize the risks by pulling back.

To play this game you must place three equal bets before the deal. The dealer then deals each player three cards, and for each individual they are face up. He also deals two community cards face down in front of himself. You will not see other players’ face-up cards when they are dealt; if they win they are shown, if they lose they are mucked (discarded).

The object is to get a winning hand -a pair of 10s or better- by combining your three personal cards with the two community cards shared by all players.

In the first round of betting, the player, based on his knowledge of his three personal cards, must decide whether to let the entire bet ride or to pull back one of the three bets.

In round two the dealer flips one of the community cards and the player must again decide, this time based on the four cards known to him, whether to let the remaining bet ride or to pull back another bet.

In the last round of betting the second community card is revealed completing the players' five card hands. Each player now has either one, two or three bets still in play.

Any player holding a pair of 10s or better will win on each of the remaining bets separately, according to the Payout table. Players whose hands do not make the cut will lose all remaining bets.

Example
John is dealt an 8, 9, and 10. He feels this hand is a bit weak and retracts one bet. The first community card is a Jack. Suddenly things are looking much better with both a good enough pair and a straight within reach, so he decides to let the rest of his bet ride. The second community card is a Queen completing John's straight.

A straight pays 5 to 1 so John wins 5 times the money on both his remaining bets!

Setting your preferences

Click on the PREFERENCES tab in the lobby and set your game preferences:

• Play Sound- turn game sound on or off
• Show tooltip - show descriptive text as the pointer is positioned at various locations on the play table
• Rebet implies deal - if selected, the cards are dealt on clicking Rebet

Joining a table

Table options
Click on the MILLENNIUM RIDE tab in the lobby. Before joining a table, consider the options shown for each table:

• Table speed: normal (beginner) or fast (experienced).
• Type of money: real or play.
• Bet limits: low or high.
• Fortune bet limits: low or high.

Selecting a table
The simplest method of joining a table is by double clicking on a table name in the table list.

Selecting a seat
Click on a seat at the table.

Bringing money to the table
Enter an amount of money to bring to the table, then click OK.

Playing

1. 1. Place your ante bet by moving chips from your chip rack to the table. Click on one of the chips in your rack, then click on the left hand dollar sign. Repeat this step as often as necessary. To remove a bet, just right click on any placed bet (Ctrl + click for Mac users). Note: If your ante bet is $5, you are actually making three bets of $5 each.
2. Click DEAL. Your five cards appear (three player cards dealt face up plus two community cards dealt face down)
3. First round of betting: Click RIDE or PULL OUT. The first community card is turned face up.
4. Click COMMIT.
5. Winnings are automatically added to your stack. To play another round with the same bets, click RE-BET. To play another round with different bets place new bets.

Keyboard shortcuts
F1=Re-bet, F2=Deal, F5=Ride, F6=Pull Out.

Other operations
The icons located at the bottom of the game window can be used as follows:

	Make more funds available for play.
	Leave the game. All your chips are automatically returned to your account.
	Access the payout table.
	Help text.

Payout table