How to Play Pokeno
Pokeno is a combination of poker and bingo, played like bingo. Instead of playing with a standard bingo card everyone uses a Pokeno card, which has card names and suits on it. As card names are called out, players cover the cards with their poker chips until one of them wins the game. There are other variations of the game that can make it more interesting to play. An electronic version of Pokeno is available to play at most casinos.
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Instructions
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Decide whether you are playing standard Pokeno, where a player wins with is five cards in a row either horizontally, vertically or diagonally, or if you are going to play a variation like four corners or full card.
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Hand out Pokeno game boards to everyone who wants to play the game. Give each of the players 20 poker chips.
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Shuffle a deck of cards and lay it face down on the table. Pick one card at a time and call out the card name and the suit.
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Instruct the players to place a chip over the card value that you just called out if they have it on their board.
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Continue calling cards until one of the players has five in a row vertically, horizontally or diagonally. The player may also have the four outside corners or a full card if you are playing one of those variations. When the player gets what he needs to win on his card he calls out Pokeno.
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Switch places with the winner of the last hand. Now you are playing to win and the winner is the dealer.
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Tips & Warnings
As each winner calls out "Pokeno" consider giving them some sort of prize or gift. For more ideas, see "How to Throw a Pokeno Party."
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I like playing PO KE NO.
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we play every Christmas, we have 4 pots and put 25 cents in each for each game....pokeno (bingo stops the game) and you add another quarter in every pot, we have a pot for 4 corners, center and 4 of a kind.....as you play 4 corners and 4 of kind will build up into large money pots and everyone gets excited as you want to win those and all that money...its alot of fun...
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We play every month at our home and have been for 6 years. We have between 20 to 30 people. and we play with pennies. The first half we have a bonus jar in the middle and the last game before the break whoever wins gets all the pennies in the bonus jar. It's the omly game I have found that kids love to play. Everyone loves this game. We start at 6:00 p.m. and we eat supper first, then on our break we have desert.
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ShouldnK K Spoken like a true winner.
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We play with nickles and dimes in the the center pots.... Throw a joker in the mix and it gets pretty crezy!
