Royal Poker

[76561199107679602]

Dear developers,

I know that for you the choice to make the event game mode royal or not is really a decision that doesn't affect you in any shape or form, but I am still forced to come to this forum and politely request that you actually cease INSULTING the players. There is no better word for this.
There is nothing redeeming about royal poker. It is not fun. It is not poker. There is no strategy to it, it's impossible to be smart, the game does not allow you to be.
So devs, I don't know why you may utterly hate poker, or something, it is not up to me to judge you, but please, if you still hate intelligence and strategy that much with all your soul, then just remove the tables from the event! Just replace them with an event slot machine. First you spin for a prize, then you spin to see if you win or not. BECAUSE THAT'S ALL THAT ROYAL POKER IS. It does not matter what cards you get, it does not. There is no strategy, people complain about alliners so much, and while I agree they cannot be stopped, I do find them a little bit annoying at times myself, but in royal poker can you even blame the players for doing so? There is nothing to think about, you may as well turn your brain off and just click buttons. Allin-ing is the ideal thing to do because at least it saves time.

It's insulting. The game mode is beyond utterly terrible and dumb. Please refrain from forcing everyone to play this to get rings.

[76561198967926364]

Howdy Tester Jester! Unlike regular Texas Hold'Em Poker, Royal Poker has different odds and requires a different poker strategy. We are sorry to hear that you don't like this alternative poker format, but we would like to reassure you that we always change the format of our seasonal events. Feel free to give it another try, but if it's not still your cup of tea, you can just choose to play on other saloons that offer many other poker formats.

[76561199107679602]

The only difference in poker strategy from regular to royal is from "strategy" to "no strategy". I could surely play somewhere else, but this is the event balloon we are talking about. Imagine not being able to win rings because the game demands you to throw your brain in the trashcan before you enter the table. Sorry bud, no use of grey matter beyond this point!
There are 25 saloons and out of them only two are permanent royal poker tables yet every second event is royal? Who asked for the event to alternate? Who enjoys royal more than regular at such high stakes? Royal poker just dumbs down poker so much to the point where it's all just a three-sided die throw on who wins.

Do yourself a favor and just create a vote on the format every event. See the difference between the amount of people that want to play and the morons that want to play the slotmachine only want it to look like a poker table instead. Royal poker plays so bad, I think even being shown the finger is less insulting than your decision to screw literally everyone over, for an entire month, just because "you like to change the format every now and then".

Truly royal, truly the absolute, undeniable king of stupid alternate gamemodes. Ugh.

[Ted Leonhardt]

I must agree that no matter how much I struggle to understand, I, too, am just unable to see the appeal in this cut deck play. With just five possible hands, one being a definite winner, another being an almost definite loser and one that almost always results in a draw, it simply just becomes a drag, basically.

The only real hand comparing happens when two or more players have full houses. And if it all comes down to just that, it's entirely unpredictable what the outcome will be. Everyone is in the complete dark until all five table cards are shown and when they are, the winner knows they won and the losers know they lost, so raising becomes pointless. Most of the aspects that characterize Poker become pointless actually, which is a shame.

I personally think two tables, one big and one small, featuring this lesser but still novel version of poker is quite enough and if I were in the position to determine the format of the event tables, I would probably almost never pick Royal Poker, as events run over the course of ~40 days and I couldn't bring myself to subject both ring collectors and team point hunters alike, to a game type that, despite being played with cards, resembles throwing dice a lot more, for that long no less.

[artmakersworlds]

Ok, first I agree with the OP here, I hate royal poker.
That being said, I found a way to play.
So to help the rest of you here is my system. (Probably shouldn't share my secrets but hey, we all just want to have fun.)

So... first you MUST have a good stash of chips. My personal steam account is new, I've been playing off their website with another account much longer so it's much more advanced. My beginner one here? Got cleaned out fast. Don't even try unless you can spare a ton of chips because building up a stash when you can only play the baby tables takes too long.

So once you can afford to play this, it's only a three player game. Trick is DO NOT come in last. Might mean you have to fold quite a lot early on. And if the other two don't wipe each other out, at some point just go for it, say with a high pair. (I don't bother with 10s, lowest card in the deck.)
So once one player is out, you have to be ok with coming in second. Still makes darn good points especially with your double up thing going.
Then just throw down. There is no strategy at all. Just go all in and you WILL win some and lose some... again be happy with second.

The only advantage to this is it's darn quick. After one player is out, it may only take a few hands and it's done. Repeat. You can get through literally a dozen games for one round of the clock on your free spin bonus.

For the first time EVER I made it up to emerald. MVP in my team too. Just doing this.

[artmakersworlds]

BTW... the ballon pays off MUCH better than the statue. Watch your points after coming in first or second. Play only the good table. Darn statue paid less to come in first than the balloon paid to come in second. I don't play the statue at all now.

[Hisendam]

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