The Poker Thread

[Father Luke]

Anyone else play poker?

 

[Short Bus]

Congrats!
We play 4-5 times a year even made up our own game Kreskin poker.
You build your hand by guessing the next card and or suit dealt if you guess both right you get another card plus a card from any persons hand but those watching can call Kreskin (like snap) and they get immunity from having a card stolen.
It gets pretty heated with bets each round.
What was the play or hand of the day for you.

 

[Purple Stickpin]

Nicely played, FL. I used to play poker weekly when I lived in Connecticut during the 1980s.

 

[Father Luke]

What was the play or hand of the day for you.

Kreskin Poker sounds like it would adapt
itself well to Omaha.

Here was the Winning Hand

I was heads up, after 8 others in the tourney had been eliminated.
We played for a while. Then that happened, and I won.

 

[Gerard K H Love]

LUCKY! Good job. Now you can buy those rare collectibles you've been pining on about.

 

[Father Luke]

*koff* play money *koff*

 

[Gerard K H Love]

Then go ahead and get the play collectibles.
Good Job just the same.
They're trying to suck you into the real money side, aren't they?

 

[cunningham]

well done padre.

er, I play occasionally. cash games in person where I can...look...at a fellow...

but only as a hobby.

really.

ask jb.

 

[Father Luke]

I'll bring the dip.

 

[Father Luke]

Dig this. . .

So, I'm on the phone with a lawyer . . . I'm being sued
an ex is emailing me alternately with threats and begging - what horse shit. . .
I have a poker tourney going . . . did I bet or fold?
I'm working on three hours sleep

And I won. . .

Now I can go to work where they all think I'm retarded.

 

[strangegirl]

Wow Father Luke what a roll.
It sucks about all that stuff, but I am glad the Poker was good.

 

[Father Luke]

Poker is life.

 

[Ponder]

What was the final hand this time?

 

[Father Luke]

Something in Poker we call eggs and pussy. ;)

 

[strangegirl]

i'm picturing this in my head.
hmmmmm

okay

good hand!:)

 

[bospress.net]

nice. Do you play in real tournaments? I mean with pots that you can take? It would be cool if I had the talent and luck to plan and win enough to make a career out of it. As it turns out I am a shitty gambler.

Bill

 

[Rob.]

You beat 8 people in 41 minutes?

They must have sucked at poker.

 

[Father Luke]

nice. Do you play in real tournaments?

That's teh goal, Bill.

Dr Zen, teh guy we dedicated my book to,
is teaching me.

Our expressed goal is for me to be able to quit
my job by teh end of teh year, and earn my living
playing cards.

I mean with pots that you can take? It would be cool if I had the talent and luck to plan and win enough to make a career out of it. As it turns out I am a shitty gambler.

Those who are sure of teh outcome can afford to
wait, and to wait patiently.

You beat 8 people in 41 minutes?

They must have sucked at poker.

I'm just really that good.
Would you care to play a game?

 

[Ponder]

Would you care to play a game?

Yes!

 

[Father Luke]

Wait for a good hand. They always come. . .

Excellent. I call.

Here was the last hand played out. . . Click

No game is ever one hand only.
Check out one of the ways I got to the last hand: Click

 

[hank solo]

Phew, that was fortunate (the earlier, but second linked, hand). I'd be wary of pocket 9s or Js with the betting on the turn. Nice hand Father :D

 

[Father Luke]

I'd muck pocket nines in a heart beat.
Pure garbage.

But I play very tight, and then occasionally
I'll loosen up when I have them scared,
because I can steal the blinds. :cool:

 

[Rob.]

Those people were retarded!

 

[Gerard K H Love]

I'd rather be lucky than good!

No truer words ever spoken.

post #666................

 

[Father Luke]

Three sixes is not a bad hand.

 

[Rob.]

When/how do we play?

 

[Ponder]

Yeah, take some initiative, FL!

What about a Buknet Poker tourney?

 

[Father Luke]

Initiative?
Meh.

We'll figure something out . . .

 

[strangegirl]

Nice HAND there Father Luke. I think I'll stick to the kiddy table and slot machines.
:p:D

 

[Father Luke]

Okay. As you can tell, in the bottom left corner,
where there is writing, my winning hand was two pair:
Aces and Threes

What that little bit of writing doesn't tell you is that
at one time I was down to 660 chips with eight
other people playing.

Heh.

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Okay,
Father Luke