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Contents

  1. Foreword: Welcome to gambling!
  2. Blackjack
  3. Roulette
  4. Poker
  5. Cards against the galaxy
  6. Prizes
  7. Sentient prizes

Foreword: Welcome to gambling!

In this book I'll teach you all about how to gamble your money away or at least get lucky and win some! This book also has a handy little overview of the prizes one can earn and the limitations of what can do with the living and breathing ones.
(This book will also contain out of character information to help people be aware of how touchy subjects like sentient prizes are to be handled.)

Blackjack

First up is the classic sport of blackjack, blackjack is played normally between a gambler and a dealer, the goal is to have the higher number than the opponent but not go above 21 or it will be a bust and one loses automatically.
The values of cards are as follow: A game of blackjack begins with the dealer giving the gambler two cards, in normal blackjack all cards dealt to gambler and dealer are always shown. The two cards dealt have their values put together, the gambler has three choices, stand, hit, or double down. When it becomes the dealer's turn they do the same as the gambler, though their only goal is to get a higher or equal value to gambler. The dealer cant double down, and the large majority of casino's has the rule that a dealer cant draw anymore cards once they reach or go above a value. The most common value is 17, and there are two variants to that rule, soft and hard 17. The casino who supplies this version of the manual follows the rule of hard 17.
The game ends when the dealer busts, reaches the threshold of what they are allowed to draw, or if they get a higher value than the gambler. Again, the one who has the highest value that isnt higher than 21 wins, but if both has the same value no one wins and the bet goes back to the gambler.
And thats it! Now go out there and gamble your savings away! This casino allows bets between 5 and 50 with double down ignoring that limit!

But wait! Theres more! Theres also group blackjack! This game is a little different, the dealer can be part of it or simple deal for players, this game works differently with everyone keeping their hands hidden, everyone makes initial bets, gets two facedown cards, then its a matter of trying to get as good a hand as possible, but if you go bust, its over. But dont tell or show until everyone reveals! If youre going down, its best if youre opponents dont know they simply can play safe and win, if youre lucky everyone else gets themselves busted and you dont lose your beloved chips!
Its kinda like texas hold em in a way, everyone draws, folks can raise bets or fold, then draw more. Rinse and repeat until no one wants to raise any more nor draw cards, if everyone except one person has folded, they win by default even if they have busted, cause they dont need to reveal their hand that game, so you can choose to either sit and wait and fold if someone raise the bets, or you can gamble and make it look like you have an amazing hand and win by default since everyone else folds and no one is wise that you had a bust! This game has turned from simple probability and chance against the dealer to a game of risk and deception, fun fun fun!

Roulette

So this game of roulette is all about chance! what happens is that people bet on different odds and hope for the best as the dealer rolls the ball and makes that roulette thingy make than fun addicting spin! Once it lands on a number between 0 and 36 its either bust or payout! Pretty simple, right?
Everyone starts by putting their bets down, people can bet more than once before the ball goes rolling, the odds and their payoffs are these: Theres not much more to it! Bets made, ball rolls, number announced, people win, people lose! Bets allowed here are from 1 to 25 per bet. Oh, im also being told this casino has the fancy rule that if ball lands on 0, one wins at least one bet no matter what it is! So lets hope you got that big bet on a single number!

Poker

Aaah yes, good old poker. This casino runs by the rules of texas hold em, though the might be a little modified to be simpler for the average joe. In a game of poker it can be a single gambler and a dealer against each other, but most often its the dealer making the game proceed while several gamblers fights tooth and nail to steal each others chips, but the dealer can still join in on the free for all if they so wish!
To simply explain the game, people gamble with each other, a game of trying to get the best hand and raise bets or back out depending on what the outcome may be. The game starts with everyone betting a certain amount, it can be 5 or 10 chips depending on dealer, but if one wants to join, there needs to be chips on that table! Once everyone has made their initial bet, everyone gets two cards face down, these are kept hidden, no one not even dealer gets to see players cards until the end, not even folded cards are to be shown unless wanted to, sometimes its better making people unsure if you dropped out with bad cards or if you have other motives, deception is a large part of this game!
With everyone having cards dealt, its time for the dealer to lay three on the table face up, these cards are 3 of 5 cards in the community pool, everyone can use these cards to make sets like pairs and such, this doesnt mean they are taken, multiple people can use the same community card for their own sets!
With the community having three we enter the second betting stage, here people have two options, standing or raising. Standing means you dont want to raise, raising explains itself, though if someone bets, people have three options, commit putting the chips in to risk as much as the raised bet, but if one doesnt have enough, then they can still go all in with their remaining chips, one can also drop out if its too risky, the chips bet will remain on the table, but at least you wont lose more eh? Final one is to raise further, sometimes people can dare each other to raise more, but its not allowed for someone to raise, then raise further if no one else raises after them!
As said earlier, we got like a community pool of 5 cards total, this time another card is revealed and we enter a new betting phase, then the final fifth card is revealed and final bets are made, and then the cards are revealed so it can be determined who has the best hand! If two or more have equally good sets, then the chips are split evenly between them.
But notice, if someone is left because everyone else didnt dare to raise with their bet, they can decide to not reveal their hand, they might have had a winning hand, or maybe its terrible and they just bluffed their way to victory, only they know and can decide if they want to expose their cards to gloat or confuse their opponents. So in summary, the game can be simple, but hard to master!

And here is the order of winning hands folks! Wew, what a long lesson, but thats how one does the Texas hold em here at this casino, hope you guys have fun winning and losing your hard earned cash with this one!

Cards against the galaxy

So hear this, NT is now sponsoring team building at the casino, so folks who wants to just relax with friends, play some games, earn chips with no risk, even the ones broke can join in on a fun game of Cards against the galaxy and have fun!
The idea is that once a round has concluded and a casino member is present to see the game being actually played, everyone gets 10 chips while the one who won the round gets 25 instead! Interested? Good! Its easy and simple to play and very fun and vulgar!

The game is best played with at least 4 players and starts with everyone drawing 7 white cards, the person who most recently pooped starts as the 'card czar', but folks can agree on another criteria for the czar or simply pick one. Each round the current card czar draws a black card that has text written on it and blank lines, everyone aside from the czar takes a white card from their hand for every blank line which they find funny in that sentence and puts on the table face down with the others. The card czar cant know who has which white card and simply reads the black card with the white ones, the most funniest combination is choosen by the czar and the one who made that combination is the current rounds winner and the next rounds czar. At the end of each round everyone makes sure to draw enough white card to have 7 on hand and if theres a casino staff member playing or watching, they note down or hand out chips for everyone, and if they are playing, they get to add chips to their own personal stockpile too!
Thats it for cards against the galaxy! Simple, fun and vulgar, whats there not to love?

Prizes

Hey folks, welcome to the prize section! This part is definently important for you folks operating the prize booth! First off I wanna tell you some great news! Nanotransen has gone along with a nice deal that allows crew to occasionally keep their hard earned rewards on station for a limited time, now you can enjoy your new fancy toolbelt or bluespace beaker for more than just the shift where the casino comes around!
((Be aware, there can be limitations on how many rewards you get to keep after the shift, it might be unfair if some shows up and wins one thing, while they watch as command staff crew with high background income as well as hyperactive miners walks home with 20 prizes they get to enjoy while having almost done no gambling at all.))

Lets get to the prizes and exchange rate before we get started on the stuff specifically for the booth operators, so heres the current prizes one can win and their costs! Be aware there might be new prizes or absent ones from time to time!
EXCHANGE RATE
FROM = TO
5 Thalers = 1 casino chip
1 casino chip = 5 Thalers

The special sentient prize is 100 chips! More about it in section below!

Melee weapons Guns and 'guns' ((disclaimer, giving out guns will mean you get a weapons license as well with the shifts you have it, abusing these weapons will quickly get them removed!)) Gear Masks and hats - EVERYTHING IS 50 except chameleon! Costumes - All costumes are 100 except the hoodies which are 50! Toys and misc - ALL THESE ARE 50 Booze - ALL BOOZE IS 50 Pets Mechs Implants Thats it for prizes!

Now comes the part for the both operators, you got a very important job, it has a lot of responsibility, so it means that you gotta put that first before your own fun, cause unless you do it, a lot of folks are gonna be left sad and dissappointed they cant get any goodies! But the process is simple and can be quick, someone comes to you, they want some chips, or thalers back or a prize, you simply check this nice guide above to determine cost and ask for the amount of thalers or chips needed, if its a prize, then you follow this procedure:
  1. First get the thalers or chips for payment.
  2. Before giving the prize you take out your prize winner folder and a piece of paper, this paper will be named after the one getting the reward and will have further prizes noted down into it, so make sure its safe in that folder!
  3. You write at the top of the document the winner's name, then below write in big letters 'PRIZES' and put each new reward on its own line! ((You skip to a new line by writing < br > without the space between the br and the clamps))
  4. Once written down, you just put the paper back in the folder and hand over the prize!
((When shift is nearing its end you pray to staff or DM the one responsible for the event, they will get the folder and copy paste all the reward info before shift is over and ensure people get their rewards. This is a very important job and we understand it might not be so fun being restricted during an event, but just like the rest of volunteer staff, you get rewarded with guaranteed prizes to enjoy after the shift for being a big help!))
((This gets to the sour part, cheating and giving others and yourself free prizes and/or chips is absolutely forbidden, this has OOC consequences and will likely blacklist you from being important roles in future events. Though dont fear getting punished even if you havent done anything wrong, we will rather let cheaters slip than let honest players get wrongfully punished!))

Sentient prizes

Goodness me this is quite the casino huh? Who would have thought one could win other people as a prize? Well you can do just about anything you want with them! Be it just company, some less children friendly company, heck you can even eat them or make them eat you! The options and possibilities are quite frankly limitless!
Now you might ask, how does one get these fancy prizes? Well they can be obtained by checking in at the exchange both and see the list of prizes, there might be none, there might be many, it depends on volunteers and losers! This brings us first to volunteers and then to losers!
Volunteering is simple! Anyone can walk up to the booth and ask to be a sentient prize, what this means is that you get a nice sum of 150 chips for you to do whatever you want, but someone might come at any point and claim you!
Losers are obtained differently, if youre completly busted and have nothing left, you become a prize that the one you lost to can do whatever they want with, this means both gamblers and dealers can end up as a prize, though if for whatever reason you dont become their prize, you get added to the list for someone else to enjoy. Becoming a prize means you also get 100 chips in compensation!
Now hear this! The casino has decided that to spice things up, folks can bet themselves at any time and arent already a prize on the list! Doesnt matter if youre rich or broke, playing blackjack or roulette, you can bet yourself in any game and youre worth 250 chips! But be careful, cause if you lose, youre the winners prize! They can keep you, give you to someone else. or to the prize booth and get the chips you would have gotten as volunteer! But if given to the booth, the winner cant buy their prize back for the lower cost!

((Sour part again, but very important. These sentient prizes can be fun, but one thing always dictates how these things goes down, preferences and ooc wants. If preferences dont line up and people dont agree to do winner/loser scene it becomes sentient prize on list. And someone cant win a prize if the prize ooc doesnt want to do what the winner wants to do. We still wish people to try and reach out and try things with new people and/or new things they are comfortable doing, but never shall anyone be forced into a situation they dont want!)) "}