GAME PREVIEW Navigate through our Game Preview by choosing one of the 8 links below. Register Buy chips Go to a Room Playing Poker Your Info Customize Bubble Hints New Rooms 3D Poker Room's 3D card rooms include animated 3D avatars, voices, sound effects, motion, chat-making it the most true-to-life poker experience on the Internet. PLEASE NOTE: images in this web preview are reduced in size and quality for speed of display. Click here or on the image above for an optional full-size view (100 kb). TOP Register Part of the quick registration involves choosing one of 15 available avatars to represent you at a 3D Poker Room card table. First time users see the dialog above; return players see the one below. All registration screens offer "Bubble hints" to explain each entry. Registration involves: Login ID (private to you alone) Password Nickname (for others to know you by) City (as part of your identity) E-mail address (for administrative game information only) No credit card or other personal information is required. TOP Buy chips You can play 3D Poker Room using REAL or PLAY money. Each account total is held as a combination of Chips and Cash. Players shift money between cash and chips any time. Clicking the [Buy] button leads to the following Deposit Options screen. You have 3 options: deposit via Neteller™ deposit with a credit card deposit by bank draft For more information on these options see Deposit Real Money All credit card and account information is transmitted via secure connections. As an extra security precaution we do not store credit card or account numbers on our server, but simply pass information along to the credit card processors. When your transaction is complete, you are notified of the result. For more information on fees, see Deposit Real Money in About Money. Cash-out lets you remove some or all of your money or winnings from 3D Poker Room. As a security precaution, 3D Poker Room only allows cash-outs to the same card or account number as was used for the deposit. Cash-outs are either credited back to your PayPal™ account, credit card, or mailed as a draft. See Cashing out for more information. TOP Go to a Room Clicking the Rooms button in the upper left of the main display will show or hide the Poker Rooms window, used any time to see or go to other rooms. The Poker Rooms window lists all available rooms and games, and lets you navigate between them. Notice the 'Players' tab (far left) which lists all online users. Double-click on a listed room to sit down, or single-click to see the pop-up menu of other available options for the selected room. TOP Playing Poker Sit down: When you sit down at a table, you'll be sitting at the near end of the table. Post (or ante): When it's your turn to act, button prompts rise out of the table in front of you. In this case you're being asked to post the Big Blind (to ante) or sit out and pass on this hand. Your character moves: When you click the Bet button, your avatar's hand pushes the correct number of chips onto the table. Other players see your avatar betting at the same time. Dealing cards: Cards are dealt to all players and the fun begins! View your cards: Click on your own hands or cards to see what you've been dealt. Once again, other players see your character move. Act when prompted: Each time it's your turn, prompts display with appropriate choices. TOP Your Info Login ID: Your 3D Poker Room account information, including your Login ID and password, are stored here. Change your password any time you like. See Settings in 3D Poker Room Help for more information on making changes. Nickname: Your Nickname and City identify you to other players at 3D Poker Room. Your Avatar: Choose any available avatar from among the 15 designed to represent online players at the table. Address: Address information is required in order for you to play using real money at 3D Poker Room. TOP Customize Preferences: The Preferences window allows you to customize how 3D Poker Room looks, feels and sounds on your computer. Preference Descriptions: Show bubble hints: displays text hints that help explain and illuminate each area of the game, including descriptions of game play as you watch or play. Show floating chat text: chat text appears next to each player, letting you chat with everyone at the table, just like in a real poker game. Chat also appears in the Log window (i.e. the window that displays game play). Click the Chat tab to see chat logs in each room. Player name and chip values always visible: shows each player's name and chip value. Passing your mouse over a player displays the same information. Note that players' chips are always in view and accurately represented, just as in a real poker game. (We told you it was true-to-life.) Ping time always visible: displays your ping time in the lower right corner of your screen. Ping time is the time, in 1/1000ths of a second, that it takes a 3D Poker Room message to travel from your machine to the server and back. In other words, a ping of 500 means it takes about 1/2 second for your Bet instruction to reach the server and come back to you. Note: when this feature is turned on, pass your mouse over other players to see their ping time. Knowing a player's ping time can tell you if a particular player has a slow connection, or is just slow to act. Animate view cards action: when you click on your cards, you can either see them instantly, or through a 0.3 second animation by toggling this option on. Just remember: every time you look at your cards, other players see your avatar looking at its cards. In other words, turning off the setting does not turn it off in other players' view. Always use green felt tables: displays the same green felt table in every poker room. There are 4 different room schemes-chosen at random-each with its own table design. Some players prefer to always see the same table center. Audio: controls the sounds you hear while playing. There are currently two collections of audio, voice and sound effects; e.g. the word 'Bet,' and the sound of chips dropping, respectively. You can turn each on or off independently. As an added feature of the true-to-life experience, sounds on the right or left sides of the table will favor your right or left speaker respectively. Also, sounds from the far end of the table will play at lower volumes. Force show processor compensation: reduces the level of animation and effects to compensate for older processors. 3D Poker Room should run fine on a Pentium II or better, but if you run several other applications at the same time, the software may struggle. Selecting this preference will help, while causing animations to play less smoothly. Note: this setting is automatically chosen (grayed out) if your machine has a CPU of 200 mhz or less. TOP Bubble Hints Bubble Hints explain key functions while you stroll through 3D Poker Room the first few times. Turn them off when you're familiar with what's what. Note: if you leave Bubble Hints turned on while watching or playing a game, you'll get a play-by-play tutorial. TOP New Rooms You can create a new room by clicking once on any room listed in the Poker Rooms window, and then choosing Create New Room from the pop-up. Options for your own room: Name Choice of 4 games 4 Stakes Real or Play money TOP