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diff --git a/building_guide/video_poker.md b/building_guide/video_poker.md index 0faf8f3..497f64e 100644 --- a/building_guide/video_poker.md +++ b/building_guide/video_poker.md @@ -55,9 +55,6 @@ games. Some classic full schedules exceed 100% with optimal play. than inventing a third tier. Other omissions are deliberately conservative, not claims that no physical edition exists. -The authored tier persists across occupants of the live cabinet. -Multiplier banks for *all* tiers remain durable and separate. - | Edition | Supported hands | |---|---| | Classic Jacks or Better | 1, 3, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100 | @@ -67,7 +64,7 @@ Multiplier banks for *all* tiers remain durable and separate. | Super Times Pay | 1, 3, 5, 10 | | Hot Roll | 3, 5, 10 | -## Controls and presentation +## Player controls - `play <id>` seats you; `game` lists games; `game jacks` (or a full game name) selects one. The house sets the payout tier when the cabinet is authored in @@ -90,19 +87,6 @@ Multiplier banks for *all* tiers remain durable and separate. `list` retains available-wagers semantics and is not a pay-table command. - `stop` leaves between rounds. Disconnect completes the current holds. -Pay tables use yellow Unicode borders and dotted hand-name leaders. Blue -`#000269`, red `#fe0000` (selected coin column), and yellow `#f7e70e` are mapped -to nearest xterm colors. HELD and wins are bold yellow; no-win text is bold -white. Results are below cards. Bonus indicators and multipliers sit beside -cards. Multi-hand art shrinks; hundred-play uses compact Unicode ranks/suits. - -Payouts are total coins including stake, not profit. Multiply by denomination -for credits. Natural royals pay 250 per coin below five coins, 4000 at five. -Other categories scale linearly. Only the highest-paying category pays. -All games use fresh 52-card decks except Joker Poker's 53-card deck. Each line -shares the deal/holds but draws from its own shuffled remaining deck, excluding -**all five** original cards, including discards. - ## Bonuses Feature ON requires five base coins per hand. UX and Hot Roll add five coins @@ -117,30 +101,9 @@ Feature ON requires five base coins per hand. UX and Hot Roll add five coins - **Hot Roll:** a pre-deal 1/6 trigger rolls two fair dice; their sum multiplies every line. STP and Hot Roll have no next-hand bank. -## Shared banks and money safety - -Ultimate X multipliers belong to the **machine**, not the player. Another -occupant inherits them. Files live at -`data/casino/video_poker_banks/<room>_<cabinet>.yaml`. Within each file banks -are keyed by game/tier/denomination/hand-count, preventing denomination or -edition switching from amplifying an award. Fully consumed banks are removed. -Missing files are new machines; corrupt/unreadable files block deals. - -`casino.PokerWallet` loads banks and atomically settles character credits, -pending stake removal, and the cabinet file in a multi-file undo-journal -transaction. There is no package-global persistence callback. The game owner -serializes writes. The stake is durable before revealing cards; frozen final -hands and awards survive payment retries without redraws or rerolls. Failed -transactions leave the old live bank intact. Commit-point failures are recovered -and reconciled before any retry; unrecoverable storage faults fail closed. -Startup journal recovery precedes pending-wager recovery. A process crash before -commit restores both old records, then refunds the unresolved stake. Committed -payouts cannot replay an old bank. Shutdown/eviction refunds unresolved stakes -without consuming previously saved multipliers or retaining uncommitted awards. - -Old experimental player-owned `video_poker_multipliers` fields are no longer -read. They are not merged into shared cabinets (multiple player banks cannot -unambiguously become one physical bank). +Ultimate X multiplier banks belong to the **machine**, not the player: another +occupant inherits them, and they persist on disk under +`data/casino/video_poker_banks/`. ## Sources @@ -157,3 +120,6 @@ Published schedules, award tables and feature rules: - https://wizardofodds.com/games/video-poker/tables/double-bonus/ - https://wizardofodds.com/games/video-poker/tables/double-double-bonus/ - https://www.videopoker.com/games/ (single/multi/hundred-play editions) + +Presentation internals and durable-bank transaction details are in +[../dev_guide/video_poker.md](../dev_guide/video_poker.md). |
