Poker is an essential part of Far Cry 3. There are references of it scattered everywhere, from the items you 👄 pick up, to the side quests you complete, to the multiple poker games sprinkled throughout the world, to even being 👄 incorporated into the main story line. In order to unlock the Poker mini-game, you’ll have to liberate the Valsa Docks 👄 Outpost. There are five poker locations total, three on the north island and two on the south island. The names 👄 of the closest towns to those poker mini-games are the Valsa Docks, Northview Gas, Badtown, Thurston Town and Bridge Control.

There 👄 are four skill levels that the player can choose from. Practice is the easiest and you won’t wager any money, 👄 however this means you won’t win any money either. The next level is Novice and you’ll start off with aR$100 👄 total to wager with. The next level is Skilled and you’ll getR$150 to wager and last is the Expert level 👄 with an allowance ofR$250. The higher the level the more difficult the poker game will be.

The game itself is basically 👄 a no-limit Texas Hold’Em game that would be similar to aR$2/$4 game at Binion’s in Downtown Las Vegas. If you’re 👄 looking for a replacement for online poker, this isn’t it. Far Cry 3 poker games are much slower, use different 👄 procedures, they have poor A.I. for the other players and the game only gives out fake money.

As soon as you 👄 sit down on the table, the game will start. The object of the game is to make the highest five 👄 card poker ranking than all of the other players. This game uses traditional poker hand rankings, where the best hand 👄 a player can get is a Royal Flush while the worst hand they can get is High Card. You’ll do 👄 this by using the 5 community cards that are on the board plus the two cards that were dealt to 👄 you at the beginning of the game.

The game progresses through four different stages. The first stage is when you’re dealt 👄 your initial two cards. In a normal poker game, two players will post a Big Blind and a Small Blind, 👄 but the game is nice and does that for you so you don’t have to think about it. The game 👄 will then ask you if you want to Fold, Check, Call, Raise or go All In. If you Fold, then 👄 this means that you give up. You’ll toss your cards in, automatically lose any money you might have had in 👄 the game and then you won’t play again until the next game. If you Check, this means that you want 👄 the game to continue without adding any additional money to the pot. If you Call, then this means you’ll match 👄 the dollar amount that the last player bet and continue with the game. If you Raise, then this means that 👄 you add more money to your bet, making all the other players match that same amount before the game can 👄 continue. If you go All In, then this means you Raise to the point of betting everything you have on 👄 the table… Everything…