Role of Joker Card in Games

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The role of Joker Card as the replacement of the lost cards. Sometimes this card. In other card game, joker used often as wildcard in the game and they allowed to represent the existing cards. The joker can be extremely beneficial or extremely harmful. In Euchre, the image of Joker represent as Benny, the highest trumped. In Poker is wild. In children solitaire, Joker card represent as "Old Maid".

Joker is a special that can be found in modern deck of poker cards and/or Mahjong Tiles in some Mahjong sets. The word of Joker is came from of mispronounciation of Juker, name German/Alsatian name for the game Euchre (in German, the "J" sounds as "I" or "Y" so the German and English names should be pronounced similarly).

This card was introduced in the year of 1860 as the highest trumph family card game. It is first mentioned in connection with Euchre in the book /Euchre: How to Play it/ (1886). The book includes a description of a game called Railway Euchre in which a 33rd card is used.

The name Poker is also derived from Joker, where it was first mentioned in American Hoyle in 1875. The book A History of Playing Cards authored by Catherine Perry Hargrave has found the joker earlier from 1862 and 1865. In 1862 the card has tiger on it and label it as "Highest Trumph" while 1865 this card was called "This card takes either Bower" and "Imperial Bower", or "Highest Trump Card". Maybe in Euchre was started invented the Joker Card, not Poker, because part of this confusion on the issue may be due to the fact that both games spread simultaneously northward on the Mississippi. The Joker card represent as clown or court jester in 1880's.

Apperance

Joker card is represent as court harlequin. In one deck the number of Joker card is two with a different color. For the instances, Bicycle Playing Cards prints their company guarantee the Joker is only one card. Joke card have two colors one is black/non-colored card and the second is color red/colored by their color suit card: Red Joker and Black Joker.
In terms of rank comparison fo

r those Jokers, Red Joker is the highest ranking card than Black Joker. Sometime those two Jokers based on their suits like heart and diamond for red/full colored Joker and clubs and spades for Black/non-coloured Joker.

In the US Bicycle Playing Cards, The Joker bears sometimes as S for superimposed over U for index symbol. In Australia, Joker in the Queen's Slipper brand represent as Kookaburra, it is a native bird that represent as human laughter. In Australian games of 500, the Joker is often referred to colloquially as 'The Bird'. Most of the Joker in Australia stands for J in corner index of a card.


Joker In Tarot Games

Joker represents as "The Fool" Trumph of Tarot Games. They share the similarities for both appearance and function of that game as "Fool" or "excuse" that can play anytime but you can't win. The image of Joker represents as "jester" with a differing origin from Euchre, the Tarot deck has included the Fool since its invention in the 1400s while the Joker is a relatively recent (re)addition to the French/Anglo-American 52-card deck.


Because of the above correspondence, practitioners of cartomancy often include a Joker in the standard 52-card deck, with a meaning similar to the Fool card of Tarot. Sometimes those 2 Jokers represt with a different images such as Black Joker is "The Fool" while Red Joker is the "Magician" or also known as the Juggler. a card which is somewhat similar in interpretation and is considered the first step in the "Fool's Journey".



Joker's Rank In ACard Game

  • Go Fish – Jokers are not used but in the variant Go fish for two, when the cards are paired-hearts with diamonds and spade with clubs-the jokers are a pair and so can be used.

  • Gin Rummy – Joker is a wild card, able to be used as any necessary rank or suit to complete a meld.

  • Poker – Joker is used as a wild card. Some poker variants restrict the capabilities of the joker, only allowing it to be used as an ace, or to complete a flush or straight Unrestricted jokers can be very powerful; they guarantee a pair, promote an existing pair to three of a kind, and promote two-pair to a full house. In some forms, the joker may be used to promote a four-of-a-kind hand into a five-of-a-kind. A five-of-a-kind is considered the highest among all hands, even the royal flush. Alternatively, the joker is sometimes used as a buck or button to indicate which player is the dealer.

  • Chase The Joker – An alternative version of Old Maid where the Joker card is used instead of the Ace.

  • Canasta – Like Deuce, joker is worth 50 points in melding, as opposed to 20 for the deuce.

  • Hearts – Joker does not appear in standard hearts, but when playing with 3 or 6 players, both Jokers are commonly added to make the deck divide evenly, and are played as off-suit. Other variants use one or more Jokers to replace another card or cards, and give the Joker special properties.

  • Pitch – Joker ranks between the Jack and the 10 and are mark as High and Low ouranking the other.

  • Mighty – Joker is the second most-powerful card in the game, though it cannot belegally played on the first or last trick.

  • Crazy Eights – Joker is a skip card, playable on the top of any other card.

Phil Hellmuth

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Phil Hellmuth is known as one of the best Poker Player in histhory. He is residing in Palo Alto, California. His whole name is Phillip Jerome Hellmuth Jr. He was born on July 16, 1964 in Madison, Wisconsin. He is the oldest of 5 children of Phil Hellmuth Sr. His father is a dean of University of Wisconsin and his mother Lynn Hellmuth is a sculptor. He married to Kathy for 19 year and have 2 sons, Phillip III and Nicolas. He has simple goal in Poker: "I want to be the greatest poker player of all-time. But one who always puts family first."


He start playing poker with his family and he learned the card game called Texas Hold'em in University of Wisconsin. Attended in University of Wisconsn, 3 years before dropped out after he win in local poker games. He traveled in Las Vegas 10 times before won in the tables. He often to return in Madison for build a bankroll by working field laborer for Blaine Farms in de-tassling the corn and tilling soil.


He play World of Series Poker(WSOP) and his nickname is Poker Brat because of being temperamental. He is one of the biggest earner in WSOP, he earned $ 6,105,254 and he have 11 bracelets in WSOP. In 1989, he is the youngest winner at age of 24 by defeating the two time defending champion Johnny Chan in WSOP. In 1993 he won 3 bracelets in the same year and 2nd place to finish in that event. Everytime he won in WSOP, he gave his bracelet to his mom, dad, wife, three sisters, brother, 2 sons and closed friends. He keep one bracelet for himself.

He won in Tournament event in WSOP No Limit Hold'em at the year of 1989, 1992, 1993(Three No Limit Hold'em in that year), 1997, 2001, 2003, 2006 and 2007. He earned $ 3,767,327.00 in all No Limit Hold'em Championship.


His Other Poker Tournament Participation


Phil Hellmuth also participated in Late Night Poker. He is season 3 champion of that tournament. In 2005 he won National Heads-Up Poker Champion and he defeated Men Nguyen, Paul Phillips, Huck Seed, Lyle Berman, Antonio Esfandiari and he on the way to finals against Chris Ferguson While trying to repeat in 2006, he lost in the first round to Chip Reese. In 2007, Hellmuth did not play due to the PartyPoker.com Premier League Poker, a British tournament in which he took part. He won four out of his six group matches and eventually finished third in the finals. Hellmuth took part in the 2008 National Heads-Up Poker Championship, losing in the first round to Tom Dwan.

He makes the regular appearance of Poker After Dark as a player and commentator of that tournament. He won in first episode of third season in amount of $ 100,000.00. Two week later he returned and won again in that tournament, he earned another $ 100,000.00. He also play in GSN's cash game show in first and fourth season of High Stakes poker. As of 2009 he earned more than $10,900,000 and he ranked in fourth on the All Time Money List behind of Jamie Gold, Phil Ivey and Daniel Negreanu.



The Poker Brat


Phillip Hellmuth is also known as "Poker Brat" in WSOP for his always like a brat-child-act attitude with a competitive and controversial personality. He won as Player of the Player, the NBC Heads-Up Championships, the European Poker Champions and 50 other major tournament titles. He was elected as Poker Hall of Fame in 2007. He is one of the most recognizable faces on television not only as poker also as Host of NBC, ESPN and Bravo. He is competing coach against Anne Duke of FSN "The Best Damn Poker Show I and II. Since 1998 he has 52 articles in newspaper and he have the title called "Hand of the Week". He wrote about chronicle the amazing pokers hands, stories and lesson from his journey throught the legendary games against the world's most formidabl opponents. His column is syndicated in papers around the world.


"You can't even spell Poker! If it weren't for luck, I'd win 'em all! I can dodge bullets, baby! "
- Phil Hellmuth

Online Casino Developer

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Online Casino Developer develops and manipulates online casino software. Those developer are popular and trusted for developing an online casino software. The biggest online casino team developers are Vegas Technology and Real Time Gaming(RTG). Vegas Technology developed an online casino software, those are English Harbour Casino, Millionaire Casino, Silver Dollar, Super Slots, Carribean Gold, VIP Slots, Golden Casino, Vegas Casino, Go Casino and Crazy Slots. RTG developed also an online casino software, those are Rushmore Casino, Cherry Red Casino, Slot Oasis and One Club Casino.

The first concern for developers is security for software and transaction. Terms of security in software, it should be invulnerable from third party software hacks. During developing an online casino software, it check the developing software how vulnerable from hacks and virus injection. If they found the vulnerable in that software, developer improved the security third party software hacks. Another main reason why making a security for software is to prevent the casino cheats especially in play for money option and player to player in online casino games.


Another developing security is password encryption to encrypt the value password hackers can't decrypt easily unless he knows the algorithm how to encrypt and decrypt the password. In transaction is also important for security, to secure and encrypt the account information and ATM card or Credit Card. Developer provides a SSL 3 or Secure Socket Layer 3. As far as I know no one hacker penetrate SSL 3 because the security is too high. SSL 3 protects against hacking and stealing the account information and money. Besides from SSL 3 I heard from one of biggest online casino developer is using an 128 bit encryption, I'm not sure if it's md5 or sha1 algorith for security. 128 bit encryption is one of the best online security encryption.


The second concern for online casino developer is the number is really randomized. Yes, the game is randomized because developer user a Random Number Generator(RNG). RNG is consistent randomization of a shuffling card and rolling of slot machines. RNG is protected by security against third party software hacks to maintain the randomization of shuffling cards and rolling of slot machines. RNG in poker is serve as the dealer to give the card to online casino gamer. The algorithm of RNG for winning a casino jackpot and bonuses is always 1:100 means only luck the can win of online casino gamer.


About those two developer of online casino software are great and reliable. Those software team developer always prioritized the security for the client to enjoy during his playing in online casino. Of course since player to player the game in online poker, developer enhanced a chatroom and lobby to have an interactive inside of online casino game. If has a problem or bug inside of online casino game, the developer fix the bug by patching an online casino software. Those two software team developer of online casino software are trusted and have credibility of developing an online casino software.


Poker Card Collectibles

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In my previous blog about Casino Item collectibles such as Casino Chips and Dices. Now I am featuring the most popular, the Poker Card Collectibles. Before I dicuss I give you some trivia about Poker Cards. Poker Card or playing card is compose of 52 cards in one deck. It is made of heavy paper, thin card or thin plastic.


The design entails of 1 deck playing cards those are club, spade, heart and diamond. Two colors in 1 deck are red for heart and diamond and black for club and spade. This deck can be randomizing or shuffing before start the games. It's use for casino table games such as poker, texas hold'em, blackjack and baccarat. It can use for playing in Casino Game and some of this is for collections.


Let's talk about poker card collectibles. I'm the one of the playing or poker card collector. I bought an expensive poker card for collections and cheap poker cards are for playing. Some of my poker cards are souvenir for my collections during when I'm tripping to other countries. Those souvenir poker cards are from Airline companies like Japan Airlines, American Airline, Macau Airlines etc. About my expensive pokers card collections, there are different designs from front to rear card. I collect also a limited edition poker card like Mountain Dew. Pepsi, Harley Davidson, Casino Royale, Star Wars, Sexy Celebrities, James Bond etc.


The most important for those collected poker cards is you should maintain as new. How you would you do it? There is several ways how to maintain your poker cards collectible as new, like buying a plastic sleeves to protect against scratches and crumpled during shuffling a poker cards. You can buy an album if your pokers are really not for play. There are many types of cards sleeves first is transparent card sleeve, PVC card sleeve and last a hard plastic sleeves. Those 3 kinds of sleeve are to useful for your collected poker cards, don't worry those 3 kinds of sleeves are affordable and durable. If you don't have sleeves or album, you should keep those collected poker cards in clean and dry places to stay new.

Collectible Items

Casino Chips and Dices are the best casino collectible items. Casino Chips is use for as a betting coins because it has equivalent for the money value while Dices is use for Casino Craps, Sic Bo and Backgammon. Let's discuss about Casino Chips and Dices.


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Casino Chips are also known as chips, token, cheques it is a small disc use for as money for betting in casino. Casino chips has lots of usual colors including yellow, red, white and blue. Each casino are made from plastics, clay, ceramix woods and metal . Each token has a value, the smallest value is $1 and the biggest values are: $500, $1000, and $5000.


How to assign the value of chips?



It depends the denomination colors like white is for $1, red is for $5, blue is for $10, green is for $25, and black is for $100. Casino Chips have many designs like Fig. 1.1. Some Casino Chips are very hard find because those chips are rare like in Fig 1.2 and very antique like in Fig 1.3.


One of the reason why those people collecting casino chips because of the diversified designs in chips. These different designs attracts to other people that push to themselves to buy and collect all chips. According to those casino chips collectors when these casino chip becomes rare and old, the value of these chips are become too lucrative. Sometimes those handler are still keeping their old and rare chips to continuing increase their value and keeping those collected casino chips to the boxes for a long time.


Dice



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Dice are polyhedral object but usually is a cubic with a different symbols and numbers. Dice is usually 6 sided in official gambling like Craps, Backgammon, Chinchirorin and Sic Bo. But did you know that there are some different shape of dices like tetrahedron (a four sided dice fig. 2.1), cube(fig. 2.2), octahedron(8 sided dice fig 2.3), dodecahedron(12 sided dice fig. 2.4) and icosahedron(20 sided dice fig. 2.5). Each Dice is made from different material like ankle bone, ivory, wood, metal and stones.


But most of people doesn't know these dice are also collectible besides of casino chips. Some dice are rare and expensive so it is rather to collect than use for casino games. According to dice collector he bought cheap price dice to use for playing in gambling and non-gambling games while expensive dices are for collection and he will regret if those expensive dice are use for games. Some collectible dice has different symbols and different sizes like in fig. 3.1.