Poker Tournament at TAM4???

delphi_ote said:
Your favorite drink is Hulk Hogan? I wasn't aware he was a liquid.
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I was referring more to the "highly complex world of high speed mathematics, risk/reward assessment and psychological profiling" that the Hulkster typifies! ;)
 
I'm a latecomer to this thread, but I'd be game for the game.

I doubt you'd get the Stardust to lend us a dealer or a table for our wee event. After all, they're a money-making institution and where's the profit in this for them? (Normal poker tables are raked.)

But then, I'm a skeptic so I doubt pretty much everything. In fact, I think Phil's bluffing right now.
 
I don't know, am I allowed to play? I mean, after I won the skepticalcommunity poker tournament, and then last year when I took all of Walter Wayne's money at that one casino . . . well, I'm in, but I have a feeling we're going to end up like at TAM3, 18 of us sitting on the floor playing Screw your Neighbor.

Not that there's anything wrong with that -- I think I still need to get Darat back for all the times he purposefully screwed me.
 
Bump!

OK - sorry for my absence from the boreds for so long. I've been really busy at work, and no time for chatting.

We're only about a month away from TAM4 - I'm 90% of the way there with Stardust's poker room manager to provide us with 2 tables and 2 dealers for 2 hours for the little event. (They're happy to host us given that we're at the hotel and expect that some of us will be playing in raked games while we're there anyways.)

Since their peak times for poker are the weekends, I propose Thursday at 2100h for starting. Looking at the schedule, if you're booked into the Jamy Ian Swiss concert this could pose a problem, otherwise all players should be nicely schnackered after the cash bar and ready to gamble it up.

To confirm - we can have up to 18 players. Please reply if interested and I'll book it, Dano.

I would also be interested in hearing from someone who wants to contribute a suitable silly trophy / memento for the winners.

The game will be No-Limit Texas Hold'Em and I propose a $25 buy-in with no rebuys. (This means the most you can lose is $25.) 15 minute rounds, 500 chips to start, blinds start at 5-10. We'll pay out the top 3 finishers - 50% for 1st, 30% for 2nd, 20% for 3rd.

-AntiqueHunter.
 
I bought a book about poker last year, because I was determined to find out exactly how the game works.

But I haven't even read it yet :(

But for $25? Sure, why the heck not ...

BTW, Antique, If I Recall Correctly, IIRC is not a JREF forum poster.

Also, if rebecca is playing, I bet $10 she wins (this way, I'm sure I'll at least win something).
 
Antiquehunter said:
Since their peak times for poker are the weekends, I propose Thursday at 2100h for starting. Looking at the schedule, if you're booked into the Jamy Ian Swiss concert this could pose a problem, otherwise all players should be nicely schnackered after the cash bar and ready to gamble it up.
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9 - 11 PM sure is smack in the middle of the evening, with not really a lot of time left to do something before that or afterwards. But still about two hours to bridge between the end of the reception and the start of the poker game. That sucks :(
 
exarch said:
9 - 11 PM sure is smack in the middle of the evening, with not really a lot of time left to do something before that or afterwards. But still about two hours to bridge between the end of the reception and the start of the poker game. That sucks :(
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I'm open to suggestions for other times, and I'm sure I can float something by the management at Stardust - but I think Friday & Saturday are out because of their peak times in the cardrooms. I just picked a time that seemed to mesh with other activities - but if you can suggest a better time, I'm quite flexible.
 
exarch said:
9 - 11 PM sure is smack in the middle of the evening, with not really a lot of time left to do something before that or afterwards. But still about two hours to bridge between the end of the reception and the start of the poker game. That sucks :(
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Well, some of us would like to eat a little dinner at the Peppermill and 7-9 pm sounds about right for that activity--and after all, only about 10-18 folks will be playing poker, the rest of you have the time to go forth and do other things.

that said, would 8-10pm work better--still an hour or more to eat and Vegas never sleeps (but I do, I'm an old man...)
 
I'm signed up for Jamy Ian Swiss on Thursday, but if another time gets set up, I'm in.
 
Antiquehunter said:
OK - sorry for my absence from the boreds for so long. I've been really busy at work, and no time for chatting.

We're only about a month away from TAM4 - I'm 90% of the way there with Stardust's poker room manager to provide us with 2 tables and 2 dealers for 2 hours for the little event. (They're happy to host us given that we're at the hotel and expect that some of us will be playing in raked games while we're there anyways.)

Since their peak times for poker are the weekends, I propose Thursday at 2100h for starting. Looking at the schedule, if you're booked into the Jamy Ian Swiss concert this could pose a problem, otherwise all players should be nicely schnackered after the cash bar and ready to gamble it up.

To confirm - we can have up to 18 players. Please reply if interested and I'll book it, Dano.

I would also be interested in hearing from someone who wants to contribute a suitable silly trophy / memento for the winners.

The game will be No-Limit Texas Hold'Em and I propose a $25 buy-in with no rebuys. (This means the most you can lose is $25.) 15 minute rounds, 500 chips to start, blinds start at 5-10. We'll pay out the top 3 finishers - 50% for 1st, 30% for 2nd, 20% for 3rd.

-AntiqueHunter.
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I love the game - I would love to play - and, it's a JREF fund-raiser! Count me in. Shuffle up and deal...
 
Hutch said:
Well, some of us would like to eat a little dinner at the Peppermill and 7-9 pm sounds about right for that activity--and after all, only about 10-18 folks will be playing poker, the rest of you have the time to go forth and do other things.
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You just had a reception with a cash bar. How much more do you want to eat?

Hutch said:
that said, would 8-10pm work better--still an hour or more to eat and Vegas never sleeps (but I do, I'm an old man...)
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It would for me, but I suspect people wishing to go to Mac King would prefer it at 9 because then they can be back in time to participate.
I guess it would all depend on how many people want to go to one of the other two activities planned for Thursday night.
 
Hmmm...not sure if I want to sit at a poker table with a bunch of amateur close up card mechanics. But hey, since I'm a bit of a masochist I think it would be fun! Now I'm gonna slink off and see if I can teach myself Texas hold-em in the short time left....

-Rick
 
rikzilla said:
Hmmm...not sure if I want to sit at a poker table with a bunch of amateur close up card mechanics. But hey, since I'm a bit of a masochist I think it would be fun! Now I'm gonna slink off and see if I can teach myself Texas hold-em in the short time left....

-Rick
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It's real simple. Each player gets two cards for him/herself. Five cards are then dealt face-up on the table. The idea is to hope those five cards combined with your two cards make a better total poker "hand" than those five cards combined with someone else's two cards. Get it?

The five table cards are not put down all at once; they're spaced, so that in between cards being put down people can increase their bets (or not). Then when all the cards are down, everyone shows their cards and the winner wins.

The winning hands are the same - high card, pair, 3k, full house, blah blah blah, yadda yadda hibbity jibbity. You'll pick it up.
 
Joshua Korosi said:
It's real simple. Each player gets two cards for him/herself. Five cards are then dealt face-up on the table. The idea is to hope those five cards combined with your two cards make a better total poker "hand" than those five cards combined with someone else's two cards. Get it?

The five table cards are not put down all at once; they're spaced, so that in between cards being put down people can increase their bets (or not). Then when all the cards are down, everyone shows their cards and the winner wins.

The winning hands are the same - high card, pair, 3k, full house, blah blah blah, yadda yadda hibbity jibbity. You'll pick it up.
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Cool...doesn't sound too complicated...and at least some of my losings will go to a good cause! Thanks for the thumbnail Josh...lookin forward to seeing you.

-Rick
 
rikzilla said:
Hmmm...not sure if I want to sit at a poker table with a bunch of amateur close up card mechanics. But hey, since I'm a bit of a masochist I think it would be fun! Now I'm gonna slink off and see if I can teach myself Texas hold-em in the short time left....

-Rick
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No porblem, zilla...justturn on ESPN or ESPN2 at some random time )or Bravo & the Travel Chanel) and odds are good somebody will be playing Hold-em.

Hey, that's where I learned...wonder if I can get a hat like Jesus Fergusons...
 
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