Monkey Poker: Texas Holdem alternate rules and ranks make for a fun new indoor party game!

Learn Texas Holdem poker the easy and fun way with MonkeyPoker. Entertainment for the entire family! It's Texas Holdem gone Bananas!

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Game requirements:

The contents of the Monkey Poker Texas Holdem childrens card game for kids of all ages..

Deck of 52 Playing cards (supplied)
Deck of Go Bananas Cards (supplied)
155 Chimps (supplied)
75 $100 Chimps
35 $500 Chimps
30 $1000 Chimps
15 $5000 chimps
2-6 Players
Ages 8 and up

Object of Game

$A \"go bananas\" card which reads \"Say Monkey Poker three times real fast. If you don't laugh, collect 200 chimps.\" Learn to play monkey poker Texas Holdem card game here!$ Players bet into a community pot during the course of a hand.
The player holding the best hand at the end of betting wins pot.

1. All players must go 1/2 in every 5 hands and when blinds change.
(regardless of stack size all players must put in 1/2 of their chips and winner takes all)

2. In a hand if all players check, all players must move one seat to the right and play that hand.

3. The winner of each hand must pull a "Go Bananas" card and do what it says.

Betting

1. Check. A bet of zero that does not forfeit interest in pot.
2. Bet or Raise a bet that is bigger than previous bets, all players must match or exceed this bet or else forfeit all interest in the pot.
3. Call A bet equal to a preceding bet that maintains a players interest in the pot.
4 Fold a surrender of interest in the pot, when a player folds he/she hands in his/her cards and loses any previous bets made during that hand.

Start of Game

Each player is given 10 Red, 5 Black, 4 Blue, 2 Green Chimps.
Rock, Paper, Scissors is played to determine dealer
No Limit Texas hold 'em rules are used.

2 cards dealt face down to all players
Players to the left of the dealer must put in blinds
(Blinds Double every 15 minutes. Players will ante up $100 in chimps at the beginning of each hand for the first fifteen minutes of play, $200 in chimps for the next 15 minutes, $400 the next 15 and so on.)

Players bet, check, fold or raise.
1 Card Turned face down (or burned) Three cards turned face up (flop)
Players bet, check, fold or raise.
1card turned down (Burned)
1 card up (Turn or 4th Street)
Players bet, check, fold or raise.
1 card down (burned)
1 Card up (River)

Players bet, check, fold or raise.
Best 5 cards win.
Any player may go all in at anytime.

Monkey Hand Ranks
(Listed Highest to Lowest — Brighter Green Ranks are unique to Monkey Poker™)

Pocket Monkeys	6, 8 of hearts, played anytime, take 1/2 of everyone's total chimps.
Monkey Hand	Even Monkey: 2468J or Odd Monkey 3579J (Do not have to be the same suit). These hands are equal in rank. If more than one player draws a Monkey Hand during a single round of play, those players will play "Rock Paper Scissors" to determine the winner of the hand.
Royal Flush	AKQJ10 of the same suit
Straight Flush	5 cards of the same suit in sequence (example 34567 of clubs)
Four of a Kind	four cards of equal rank.
Full House	three of a kind plus a pair (i.e., 333,55).
Flush	5 cards of the same suit but not in sequence.
Straight	5 cards in sequence, not of the same suit.
Small Flush	4 cards of the same suit but not in sequence.
Small Straight	4 cards in sequence, not of the same suit.
Three of a Kind	three cards of equal rank
Two Pair	2 pairs
A Pair	2 cards of equal rank
Monkey Flush	Any 5 unequal, out of sequence cards of the same color (any combination of hearts/diamonds or spades/clubs)
High card	Highest value card among five unequal, out of sequence cards not of the same suit.

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