Square Deal: The Game of Two Dimensional Poker winning poker hand must be made in order to eliminate the cards (i.e., royal flush, straight flush, full house). Players can only place cards horizontally or vertically; never diagonally. Players advance to the next level when all 52 cards have been removed. Each level gives players less time to think about their moves and the ability to have decision-making pauses. Players start with $1000 in gambling money. However, an increasing number is required for the ante at the beginning of each new level. Antes start at $500 (in the early stages) and work their way up to $3000 (in the
Dragon Poker everyone shows their hole cards. As in traditional poker, the person who starts each round is the one with the best hand "showing", that is, from just all the face-up cards. What makes Dragon Poker so intriguing (and confusing) is the concept of conditional modifiers. These are a standard set of rules that, depending on the day, weather, number of people playing, and other factors, determines what cards are wild, what cards are "dead" (unusable), and other subtle changes in how the game is played. In the books, the rules delineating conditional modifiers vary as well, depending on the dimension