The Description of a hall «Debelote»

Clicking a tab of a hall «Debelote» in the game client you see a window of the Chat and the List of players to the right and a window of a hall with game tables to the left.

The following games are played in a hall «Debelote»: Deberts «up to 501», «up to 301», «in one blow», Belote «Front» and «Paired» and also «Bazar – Belote».

The window of the hall is displayed as a table (by default) where every line is linked with a certain game table.

Empty lines are free unoccupied tables. Tables where the game is running on cash are marked bold.

The following information about the game is presented in the table:

• Table number;
• The name of the game;
• The stake of the running or offered game;
• The players sitting at the table.

There is a possibility of sorting on each column both ascending and descending.

If you want to observe how others play you can come up to the table. For this purpose choose a table where the game is running double clicking a table with a mouse. Choose «To observe the game» in the emerging menu.

Filters

Pay attention to the «filters» bar over game tables.

To open the filters bar it is necessary to click on a dark green strip under the tab pages with names of halls. After making settings of filters it is necessary to click on this strip once again to hide the filters bar. The chosen filters are shown over a hall.

It is possible to do settings of the hall display using filters i.e. to choose:

• Currency – to show tables where the game is only on Euro, only on play money or both.
• Games - to show or hide tables where this or that game is being run.
• Tables - to show the occupied tables or tables of the players expecting the partner.

After doing settings of all necessary filters it is possible to start to play.

To start the game it is necessary either to open a new table or to join already opened table where the player is already expecting the opponents.

To open a new table

It is possible to open a table with one of the following ways:

• Pressing the button «Open a table» below or above a window of the hall.
• Clicking twice on an empty line with the left button of the mouse or one time with the right.

Further choose the game in an emerging window.

After choosing the game a table window where it is necessary to set game conventions opens: the type and size of the stake, game duration and lead time and also some other parameters depending on the chosen game. At the same time a tab of the given table will appear in the list of tabs.

You do the game settings according to your taste and press the button «Set the convention».

After the setting of the game convention it is necessary to wait for a player who joins the table with whom it will be necessary to agree the game conventions. Disagreed options of conventions are marked in red. When all conventions are agreed it is necessary to put a tick «Start the game after the agreement of the game conventions» in order to start the game.

Game will begin when conventions of all players will be agreed.

If there is a tick «Ready to begin the game» in the conventions of the player who has opened a table then a player who joined the table has only 15 seconds to agree with the set convention or leave a table. The just joined player will be automatically removed from the table in 15 seconds.

To join a table

Choose a table in a hall with a free seat double clicking on a table with the left button of the mouse. You sit at the table and see the conventions chosen by other player (if he has already chosen them) and also your convention which you can edit. If you agree with the convention offered by other player press the button «Agree with the offered». Disagreed options of conventions are marked in red.

The agreement of game conventions always precedes the game beginning. The game will not begin until all conventions are agreed.

The differences exist only in the «Paired Belote» game when sitting at an open table.

As the game is a paired one, a player has the possibility to choose with whom to play pressing the button "free" in the first or the second pair.

Players of different pairs are marked with different colour (dark blue and green) in a hall.

It is possible to play at different tables simultaneously switching from one table to another clicking with a mouse the necessary tab of the main menu of the client (all tables are collected in tabs in the main menu of the client by default).

Game course

If there is a special combination a window appears in the left part of the game field where you make a choice to declare it or not. In case there are several special combinations all possible variants appear in a window and you can choose the one which satisfies you. After choosing the variant which satisfy you press the button «Declare».

The scoring concerning the deals and the match is displayed in the table at the top of a table.

In order to finish the deal ahead of schedule or declare «finish» press the button and choose one of the variants.

Clicking with the right button of the mouse in any place of a game field you can:

• To see the game rules;
• To see game convention;
• To pass to the game settings;
• To switch off a table chat for observers;
• To switch on/off the showing of the initial set after the deal;
• To look through the list of observers.

Kibitzers

There is a possibility of the game observation of the concrete player in this hall.

For this purpose it is necessary:

• To come up to the table as an observer;
• To click with the right button of the mouse on the nick of the player you want to observe;
• To choose «to become a kibitzer» in the emerging menu.

The further depends on the settings of the player you want to observe.

If his settings are the following:

• Nobody – in observation will be refused to everybody.
• With the permission – the inquiry will be sent to the player with the indication of the player’s nick who wants to observe his game. The player chooses to confirm or refuse the observation.
• Everybody – all willing people can observe the game of the given player.