Milli-poker, anyone? (ATTN: Security too)

[feminine-menace.livejournal.com]

I'm planning to have YT start up a poker game in Milliways soon - perhaps tonight, within the next couple of days at least. However, to make it work, I know I'll have to do a little OOC coordinating, hence this post.

I will need three other pups to play cards with YT. You generally need at least four for an interesting game, and any more than that will be very difficult for all players involved to handle. Also, we will not be playing for real money, although we will have chips (your pups can ask if real money is involved, though).

The purpose of this poker thread is, primarily, humor. That means cheating is allowed - the more flagrant, obvious, and bizarre, the better. I would also love to have one pup who is familiar with the general concept of poker, but kind of shaky on the specific rules - all the better for interesting goof-ups.

In the interests of helping things run smoothly, I ask you to give me some modding powers in the course of this thread - to decide when the actual gameplay starts (after initial "player recruitment"), possibly to decide where people sit, and to handwave a few rounds. At the start, at least, I would like us to take turns in a standard "left-to-right" fashion, depending upon who sits where, in order to help things stay organized.

I would also like somebody's cheating to eventually result in a fight between two or more of the players, who will probably end up getting dragged off to the cells by security (security pups, this is why I asked for your attention), so if you're not willing to have your pup spend a while in lockup, this poker game probably isn't for you.

If you are a regular on Crackchat in the evenings, it will be a big help in keeping the poker thread organized and running. Otherwise, use posts with OOC comments. If I do a bit of "directing" that you think is out of line, post an OOC reply saying so to me, and I will modify the comment accordingly (although I hope nobody needs to do that.

The first three pups to express interest and confirm their eventual participation will get into the game. If you decide to join, keep your eyes peeled for a plotlocked post by me titled "Five-card Stud."

Also, if you have any questions or things you want clarified, feel free to ask here, or on crackchat when I'm there later (my SN is BookBeast4).

Thanks for tuning in.


EDIT: Barring any unforeseen developments, we now have four players. However, I would like a non-player pup with good knowledge of the rules of five-card stud to be the dealer, and possibly use a real deck of cards (thanks to pirate_gibbs for this suggestion) to keep things realistic, until the cheating starts.

Comments

[badninja.livejournal.com]

I'd love to participate, I'ev been waiting a million years for a poker game. With Ed Elric. He'd be the worst cheater ever.

[feminine-menace.livejournal.com]

Excellent. He's also belligerent enough to get into a fight with someone who accuses him of cheating, which will certainly make this exciting.

[badninja.livejournal.com]

Oh yeees. And I am a'okay with him ending up in the cells if need be. He can take it! *g*

[weaverandom.livejournal.com]

That's because Steph'll just laugh at him. And be easily convinced to bring him stuff. :D

[feminine-menace.livejournal.com]

Poker post is up!

[callitavesper.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha.

Yeah.

See.

It's not like the climax of my pup's canon was a poker game or anything. However, even though he loves the cards, and even though he is likely to pwn everyone at the table, his mun has no fucking clue how to play poker (who, in fact, wanted to take her mom to Casino Royale specifically so she could ask about how this character won what and yadda yadda). So um.

I could do it as long as I can get a person to explain to me the rules of the game and how, indeed, my pup can pwn everyone at the table.

[feminine-menace.livejournal.com]

I will get back to you on that, if I can find a good website. Fortunately, I plan to play five-card stud, which is simpler than Texas Hold'em (what they were playing in the movie). Some of the same principles still apply, though, most notably the one about keeping a straight face so people can't guess how good your hand is.

[pirate-gibbs.livejournal.com]

Just be thankful that they changed the game from the original book. It was baccarat, as obscure a game as you can find in the US.

[callitavesper.livejournal.com]

The problem is that the book, unlike the movie, went into PAINFUL DETAIL about how to play baccarat. So if it were Milli-baccarat, I'd be cool. ;)

[feminine-menace.livejournal.com]

Yay Wikipedia! this article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-card_stud) on five-card stud should help you out, as well as some of the topics and sources being linked. I know how to play this myself and also know what the hand values are, so I can help you if you get lost - although I hope to have another pup playing dealer who has more experience with the game to do things like that.

[callitavesper.livejournal.com]

Wiki FTW!

[blackswanevent.livejournal.com]

YAY.FRANKIE'S GONNA PLAY.

*DANCES AROUND LIKE A HYPERACTIVETHANG*

[feminine-menace.livejournal.com]

Poker post is up!

[callitavesper.livejournal.com]

My AIM is kleptomarnie

[blackswanevent.livejournal.com]

....I nominate Bond..*cough cough*

But no, that's Midge's perrogative.

Um-

It's a toss up between the psychic cop, the hard-assed female scientist (girls should totally play too!) and um-The Texan Daredevil. Any preferences (wants in) XDD

[feminine-menace.livejournal.com]

Could you name the pups for me? It will help if I know at least one of them, because otherwise it'll be hard for me to decide.

[blackswanevent.livejournal.com]

.....Juliet.

*firm nod* definately. Do you have a definite eta on the game itself?

[feminine-menace.livejournal.com]

I don't. I may be doing it tonight, but it will be a bit late because of something else I'm doing right after work. I will probably start it around 8:30 East Coast time. We can also slowtime it, if necessary, so long as everyone keeps track of previous posts and exercises a bit of common sense.

[feminine-menace.livejournal.com]

Poker post is up!

[pirate-gibbs.livejournal.com]

A suggestion: get a mun not playing in the game to deal. Some time back, one of my pups hosted a game, and a friend whose pup wasn't invited, but who knows poker (far better than I ever will), dealt out cards from a real deck. Now, if there's going to be cheating, you can skip this, but I thought it added a degree of reality and randomness to the game.

[feminine-menace.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a good idea. Maybe I should solicit for a dealer on crackchat.

[feminine-menace.livejournal.com]

Everyone: I've actually got an idea about how we can play this. It requires each of us to have a deck of cards, jokers included. The idea is that when you are "dealt" cards, or exchange them, you draw off the top of your own deck, and then write out at the bottom of your post what your hand is - unless you are cheating, of course, in which case you ought to write something else. I still need to figure out whether we should be RPing this as if we have multiple decks mixed together, or just one. Having just one deck will make for more complicated mechanics but it will be easier for people to do that "blatant and obvious cheating" that I mentioned earlier.

[badninja.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if I've got a deck of cards, but I'll look around my house today and let you know on aim.

[shinymetal-ass.livejournal.com]

BENDER BENDER BENDER BENDER BENDER.

*inhales*

BEEEENNNNNNDDDDEEEEERRRRRRRRR.

[feminine-menace.livejournal.com]

I've already got my four players, but I might be doing this again some time. Sorry.

[shinymetal-ass.livejournal.com]

Geah. Yeah. Good plan.

*was paying attention. REALLY.*

[feminine-menace.livejournal.com]

Change of plans: one of our intended players couldn't make it, so if you're online, Bender is in after all. Please check the rules post, which is linked from the "Five-card Stud" post in the bar.