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Poker Discussion and Strategy Guide
Topic Started: Jan 15 2011, 03:10 PM (195 Views)
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ExciteBots Poker Discussion and Strategy Guide
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Welcome to the ExciteBots Poker Discussion and Strategy Guide! Here you will find excellent tips and strategies on how to poker race. The link below will take you to the previous poker race discussion thread where you can read past discussions and read tips and hints from the regulars themselves:

V.1 - http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/958377-excitebots-trick-racing/55668006

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01. How do I poker race and make hands?

ExciteBots offers two great modes of racing, one of which is poker racing. Poker racing involves collecting various playing cards around the course and building them to make what is called a scoring hand.

02. What different kinds of scoring hands are there? What are they all worth?

There are nine different scoring hands you can make with the playing cards. Each hand has a different scoring value when you cash it in:

Pair = 5 Stars
2 Pairs = 12 Stars
3 of a Kind = 15 Stars
Straight = 30 Stars
Flush = 31 Stars
Full House = 32 Stars
4 of a Kind = 75 Stars
Straight Flush = 100 Stars
Royal Flush = 150 Stars

For easier access, you can find a chart of the hands with the point breakdown on the pause menu during a poker race.

03. What are the courses? What makes them unique?

There are three unique poker courses: Poker Kilimanjaro, Poker Tasmania, and Poker Fiji. Each course has five laps. Each lap has five sets of five cards each distributed throughout the course so you can swap out cards from your hand for newer ones. Poker Kilimanjaro is a very dry and short course. There is no water to cool your bot down while racing. Poker Tasmania is a very balanced and medium-sized course. There is an area of water and air time to cool your bot down. Poker Fiji is the most complex and longest course. This course is surrounded with water which makes it easier to maintain a turbo but there are two sets of cards that are distributed in the air, cards that you can only get if you turbo jump.

04. What bot should I use?

Unlike excite racing, poker racing is a lot less dependent on the stats of a bot. Any bot will work for poker racing. However, the lobster is considered the best bot to use for poker due to its fast speed and long turbo length.

05. I see a gold card! What does it do and how do I get one?

Gold cards are essentially hand multiplier cards. When you make a scoring hand using a gold card, that hand's value multiples depending on the number of gold cards used in the hand. For example, let's say you have a pair of 7's with one of the 7's being a gold card. One gold card will multiply the pair of 7's value by 2: from 5 stars to 10 stars. If the pair of 7's were both gold cards, then the value would multiply by 4: from 5 stars to 20 stars (5x2x2). Gold cards can only be found when you are very far behind, usually in last place, during the race.

06. Are the cards on the courses random?

No. The cards that you see every time you lap can be the exact same cards from the previous lap. This is where a good memory can come into play. If you have 4 out of 5 cards needed for a royal flush and you remembered seeing that King of Hearts a few sets ahead, don't cash in because chances are that card may still be there and wasn't picked up by an opponent. Please note though, the more opponents that are in the race, the more likely the cards on the course will be shuffled because of the many players picking them up.

07. What is the best strategy for winning online?

There really is no "best strategy" for poker racing. The method you use is completely up to you. The three most well known strategies are as follows:

Beelining Strategy
To build scoring hands while racing fast for the first place bonus stars

Farming Strategy
To build scoring hands by lagging very far behind, using gold cards to multiply their hands.

Mixture Strategy
To build scoring hands by first lagging behind for gold cards, using them to achieve big scoring hands, then using the extra turbo boost from being far behind to steal first from a beeliner.

08. I'm still not doing well. Any other advice?

My advice would to start out slow. Focus on making straights (30 stars) and flushes (31 stars). Once you get the hang of making those then start focusing on both the numbers and symbols to make hands like the straight flush (100 stars) and royal flush (150 stars). Focus on going beyond the 250 S-Grade requirement and go for scores that will give you between 300 and 400. Those scores tend to be the average winning scores for an online poker race.

09. I want to poker race but there is nobody to race with. How can I get someone from the excite lobby to come play poker?

There is an easy communication code we use here on the board to invite someone to poker:

Light Green Lobster indicates TO GO TO POKER
Yellow Lobster indicates GO TO POKER SOON
Red Lobster indicates NO POKER

If you don't have the lobster unlocked or purchased, that is fine. You may use another bot with the same color code and chances are the other player will get the message. Please note that this is a community invention and is NOT well known. So if you are flashing the code to someone that isn't a member in this community, chances are they will have no idea what you are trying to tell them. In this case, perhaps change your screen name to something like "Go2Pkr?" or "Poker?" to get their attention.

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Hope you enjoyed reading this guide and learned just enough about poker racing to get you started. Remember, poker racing involves a lot more luck than it involves skill.

This thread is now open for poker racing discussion.
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