Pat Hand (Williams 1975) 1.5.1

When the initial deal gives you a pat hand, you can relax — you’re going to win this round of poker. Thus the name, Pat Hand, for this playing-card themed table. Support for up to four players means: deal me (and friends) in!

Three flippers, a single slingshot — some targets across the top. Joker targets line the right while five rollovers in the center represent the three court cards plus Ace and Ten....

The real fun though is with the bridge of rollover buttons across the top and the sweep of rollovers around the left edge. Try to use the third flipper (upper-left) to just catch a ball and send it in an arc over the bridge — sweeping all the rollovers in its path. If you’re good (or lucky) maybe you can get it to go around a second time.

This is a beautiful, electro-mechanical table. The card-playing, geisha-like woman, the black Japanning of the arch give the table a flavor of the “Orient”. The figures on the plastics remind a bit of Peter Max — fitting for 1975? Curiously, only two suits are represented — spades and hearts.

Thanks to the original table by Klodo81, Pat Hand supports DOF, SSF, has multiple LUT’s. With a beautiful new playfield from SilverSurfer, EMUnderdogs integrated it, refactored the plastics art, added shadows, new rollovers, lighting fixes, and more.