A thread to talk about poker

[hbionic]

Lmao @ jocks. Rjs a jock? I guess I'm a jock because I'm in a basketball league?

By the way, you said 'we' white man. That's not tolerated in these here parts. 

[hbionic]

I won $1,100 last night in a $100 tournament of 16 heads...it was a tournament organized by a buddy of mine.

Feels pretty freakin sweet. 

[Sgt PSN]

Was Arod there?

[hbionic]

I don't get the reference, and stop hitting on me you perv!

[hbionic]

I played in a Texas Hold-em Tournament at the local Casino and it was a $30 buy-in with a $5 fee, and $3 add-on, total of $38. 139 players, I made the final table, final 10 and we chopped and we each received $417. My first time making a final table.

This year's Texas Hold'em winnings: $1,500. 

Hopefully within a couple of years I can get good enough to make it to a WPT tournament in Vegas and make some money. That's one of my goals.

[Sgt PSN]

Is there 5 of a kind in poker?

I don't play much but found myself at a neighbors house last night playing.  On the occasion I do play, it's hold em. Last night though the game was changing with the dealer. So we were mostly playing 5 card draw, hold em and some other game I never heard of and can't remember what it was called. Anyway, I've got very little 5 card draw experience but I know the rules. So during the deal, the dealer says that 3s and 9s are wild. I end up getting dealt a pair of 7s, a pair of 3s (one of the wild cards) and a 5 or something. I turn in the 5 and get another 3 in return. After the betting is done, we show our hands and I say I've got 4 of a kind. A couple people look at me like I have a fleshpop growing out of my forehead and one of them says "are you sure that's your best hand?"  and I say yeah thinking that the only other hand I had was a full house (3s and 7s) but 4 of a kind beats that. After a minute or so of them telling me to keep looking at my hand and pick a better hand, someone else jumps in and says "you've got 5 of a kind."  not that it mattered since my 4 of a kind still beat every other hand but I was still trying to figure out the 5 of a kind thing.

Is that a real thing?  I've never heard of it. Is it some stupid unwritten rule like free parking in monopoly that some people use and others don't or what?

[Munson]

In real poker it doesn't exist but if you're playing with wild cards then why wouldn't it? You've got the 2 sevens, plus the 3 wild cards which you can play as 3 sevens to have 5 sevens.

[Sgt PSN]

So basically, it's a house rule that some people play and others don't, but you're probably not going to see it in real tourneys, right?

[Munson]

I've never seen any real poker at a casino played with wild cards. I'm sure Matty's seen way more casinos than I though.

[rjs246]

Dumbass.

Also, there probably was a fleshpop growing out of your forehead.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

There are a ton of casino poker games that use 5-of-a-kind. Most (if not all) of them, of course are of the video poker variety.

[Sgt PSN]

Never played video poker.  In fact, i dont think ive ever played any type of poker in the casino.  I pretty much stick to blackjack, roulette and occasionally craps in the casinos.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

[Sgt PSN]

Well, I like to start off with roulette because of the high payout potential. But if I start losing too much or if my back starts hurting, I'll go play black jack so I can sit for a while and try to win some money back. Once I'm drunk though I'll go to the craps table. I have 0 understanding of the game but when I'm intoxicated I find the it to be exciting and arousing.  Then I go to my hotel room, rub one out and cry myself to sleep.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]