Anyone interested in playing poker?

[ceptimus]

I mentioned this in chat last night, and some people seemed interested.

The way it works in a forum, is that someone has to volunteer to be the dealer (unfortunately that person then has to do a lot of work, and can't play in the game). The dealer PMs the hand dealt to each player, and then keeps track of the cards and how much money has been won or lost.

Several games have been held over at skepticalcommunity.com over the past two years. The threads seem very popular. Though I haven't taken part, at least one member here, slimshady2357, has.

Here is a link to one of the 'how it works' threads there: linky (http://www.skepticalcommunity.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=1938) There are lots of other threads and games in that forum - search around to find more.

If there's enough interest, we'll copy their format and have a main 'table' thread where the actual play takes place, and a parallel thread for comments, joshing and badinage.

It's also an opportunity to add another class of 'smiley' to the :ff: Here are a few of the cards linked from over at skepticalcommunity.com

http://www.skepticalcommunity.com/phpbb2/images/smiles/Ah.gif http://www.skepticalcommunity.com/phpbb2/images/smiles/2h.gif http://www.skepticalcommunity.com/phpbb2/images/smiles/Jh.gif http://www.skepticalcommunity.com/phpbb2/images/smiles/Qh.gif http://www.skepticalcommunity.com/phpbb2/images/smiles/Kh.gif

I think if we're going to try this, we should keep the first table fairly small; say a maximum of ten people. If you're interested, sign up in this thread: the first player puts 1. username, and so on until the ten places have all been taken.

I'll volunteer to be the dealer for the first game, though if anyone else would like to do it, that's fine with me.

[Leesifer]

:pickme:

Thanks cep (Esger).

[livius drusus]

Oh yay! I think this is a great idea. I'll give the cards their own category and get busy uploading. :poker:

Warning: I have a poker disability (can't remember the order of hands), but with the intarweb to help me, I might just not bug the shit out of you.

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[Leesifer]

Oh, poo! I should've done the sign up thingy.

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[Widget]

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[beyelzu]

is it going to be texas holdem, cuz i loves playing some texas holdem.

so if its holdem or omaha, i have never played omaha, but i have been meaning to learn

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[Godwhacker]

Depending on the day, time and duration, I would be willing to play. I love a good game of poker!

[ceptimus]

Depending on the day, time and duration, I would be willing to play. I love a good game of poker!It's likely to take a few days, Godwhacker, maybe even a few weeks if the game gets protracted. But you'll only have to pop in once a day or so to keep up, and if you've decided in advance that you want to fold or call, etc., when your turn comes then you can PM the dealer who will do that for you.

And, yes it will be texas holdem.

[viscousmemories]

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[godfry n. glad]

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[godfry n. glad]

How does it handle a table of more than seven?

Even at seven, draw games are problematic. A second deck? Or, a specific card-limit on the game (i.e., Texas hold'em, three-card low-ball, etc.)?

[beyelzu]

godfry, in holdem there is five community cards and every player is delt two hole cards at the beginning. so youcould easily play with 8-10 people.

[Legs]

:nojustno:

[Leesifer]

Legs, you can play the game that is on when you're back from your crooze! :washdel:

[quiet bear]

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[livius drusus]

The deck o' cards is up, in a category towards the bottom of the list. Notice the jack of diamonds and king of spades have a slightly different smileytext convention. That's on account of :jd: and :ks:.

:as: :ac: :ad: :ah: :2c: :2d: :2h: :2s: :3s: :3c: :3d: :3h: :4c: :4d: :4h: :4s: :5h: :5s: :5c: :5d: :6c: :6d: :6h: :6s: :7d: :7h: :7s: :7c: :8c: :8d: :8h: :8s: :9c: :9d: :9h: :9s: :10c: :10d: :10h: :10s: :jc: :jackd: :jh: :js: :qc: :qd: :qh: :qs: :kings: :kc: :kd: :kh:

[D. Scarlatti]

So I'll need to set up a PayPal account, is that right?

[livius drusus]

PayPal takes kitchen matches now?

[D. Scarlatti]

Well how else am I going to take all your money?

[livius drusus]

Put your name on the list first. We'll talk hustle mechanics later.

[D. Scarlatti]

Alright, alright.

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[Godwhacker]

You forgot me!

[quiet bear]

Just let me know when we start.

[slimshady2357]

I seem to be lucky these days in getting the last spot on these games list :)

I'll take spot

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[D. Scarlatti]

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Hit me, ceptimus.

:as: :js:

[ceptimus]

Cool. :cool: Thanks for signing up and thanks to liv for providing us with a pack of cards.

I have to go out tonight, and I'm off to work early tomorrow. I may be able to set up the rules and deal the cards tonight, but more likely it will be tomorrow night. Please bear with me...

You won't need a PayPal account, at least not for this first game. We will be playing with :ff: money, like we do in Legs' horse racing games, and I will provide everyone with a stack of chips to start!

Once we have everything running smoothly, and a couple of successful games under our belts, I suppose we could run a game using real money and PayPal. That's for the future though.

[livius drusus]

:ff: money, eh? Do you have any idea what the chip values will be? I'm thinking mebbe I could throw together a chipset to use along with the cards.

[Leesifer]

:wriggle:

/me likes the :ff: casino.

[Crumb]

:ff: money, eh? Do you have any idea what the chip values will be? I'm thinking mebbe I could throw together a chipset to use along with the cards.
:bow2: You are the greatest admin ever! :livius:

[livius drusus]

Pshaw... :blush2: I do like me some new toys, though. :inmycar:

[Crumb]

I thought you would balk at putting the cards in your hoard. :hoard: And now here you are volunteering to add the chips too. :pleased: That's why I went all reverent on your ass.

[Smilin]

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I hope it's not too late to sign up. If not, COUNT ME IN!

[livius drusus]

I thought you would balk at putting the cards in your hoard. :hoard: And now here you are volunteering to add the chips too. :pleased: That's why I went all reverent on your ass.
Ahh... Claro. Keeping me buttered up is always a good plan. :hellyes: I'm not entirely satisfied with the cards, mind you, but I can't deny the usefulness of them.

Smilin, this first game is 10 players.

we should keep the first table fairly small; say a maximum of ten people. If you're interested, sign up in this thread: the first player puts 1. username, and so on until the ten places have all been taken.

Some day you're gonna read these game threads before trying to play on them. :tweak:

[Smilin]

Welll...shiattt...next game then. As usual I jumped the gun...but what else would be new?

Thanks anyways liv... :butters: <<<< a butter up smilie for yah! ;)

[livius drusus]

Butters! :squee:

[Crumb]

I'm not entirely satisfied with the cards, mind you, but I can't deny the usefulness of them.
So you'd be interested in an alternative?

ETA: Something more like: http://www.sac-irca.com/wpinoicon.jpg ?

[quiet bear]

Just so everyone knows, I don't bluff. If I don't have anything, I'm out. If I think I can win, I'm in.

[Crumb]

A how-to poker site has ones like this http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:xOv9DrdE3B5RvM:http://www.pokerlistings.com/images/deck/card1-11.gif but they are probably under copyright or something. They are very nice.

[D. Scarlatti]

Just so everyone knows, I don't bluff.

Uh huh. Check this guy out, he hasn't been dealt any cards yet, and he's at it already.

[livius drusus]

I would most definitely be interested, Crumbles. I have feelers out at dA for a custom set too, but so far nothing's come through.

Scarlatz, it looks like you have competition on the hustle front.

[godfry n. glad]

Hey...hey...hey...

Could we have this thread separated at post #41 to start a new thread. I'm not quite sure which is the official thread...this one or the "comments" one.

Sorry, Ceptimus...I'm just trying for a little bit more clarity. Otherwise, a good start.

godfry