- Winning hands (winning PLAYER) of each game get 25 casino coins! - Losing players (ALL OTHER PLAYERS IN THE GAME) get -5 casino coins! If you have LESS than 5 casino coins you CANNOT play a game of poker!
DIFFICULTY:
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RULES OF THIS GAME:
[ Step 1]: - You must find a minimum of TWO other players to enter the poker table with you. If you cannot find someone else put a [ OPEN ] at the top of your post. This means you are open for inviting other players. You can have up to 5 people in a poker game thread, if you wish. All players may now come in, and roll in whatever order they wish, you really don't have to wait for players to get your rolls in!
Label your thread [ POKER RP] (PLAYERS HERE). You can play cross faction, obviously! Remember MINIMUM 3 players MAX 5 players!
The player who made the thread is responsible for closing it when finished.
[ Step 2]: All players must now roll 5d12 and make their FIRST POST in that thread. This equals the CARDS they have on their hands where 1= Ace, 11 = Jack, 12 = Queen. There are no kings. Edit your OOC accordingly with your hand. Make a post regarding your hand/entering the thread/ etc.
[ Step 3]: Look at your hand combination. You may now choose to DISCARD one card from your hand you do not like. Select which number you want to discard (from your rolls), and then in a second post, roll 1d12 again. This is your new card. Edit your OOC HAND accordingly, and write a small post of your character. This phase is optional.
[ Step 4]: Look at your hand combination. You may now choose to DISCARD ANOTHER card from your hand you do not like. Select which number you want to discard (from your rolls), and then in your third post, roll 1d12 again. This is your new card. Edit your OOC accordingly, and write a small post of your character. This phase is optional, and your LAST chance to swap cards.
[ Step 4b]: If you somehow have "cash" in your minis inventory, now is the chance to use it! Make a post, and RP that you are using your cash to BRIBE the dealer. Immediately send the cash item to Junkyard. This item WILL be removed from your inventory. When you have done so (don't worry about waiting for confirmation, just do NOT use this item anywhere else or you will be removed from the event), replace any card in your hand with a card of your choice. For example, if your current hand is 1, 2 , 2, 4, 5, with your bribe, you may now change it to 1, 2 3, 4, 5. Proceed to the next step when done. This step is only for CASH people only (if you own this item on the site).
[ Step 5]: You are done swapping cards! This is now your FINAL HAND. We're going to simplify the rules here for Poker so it isn't a big nightmare to complete. Look at the list below:
Select a combination that is APPROPRIATE to your hand. For example, if you have 2, 2, 5, 6, 7, your highest is a pair. If you got 2 3 4 5 6, your highest is a straight. etc etc. Use the form below to submit your final hand and rp out your post.
[quote="CARD FINAL"][b][color=red]I AM SUBMITTING MY HAND[/b][/color] [b]My card combination:[/b] [b]Inventory link:[/b] (proof of cash) [b]Character name:[/b][/quote]
[ Step 6]: When ALL PLAYERS have submitted their hand, simply look at this chart again to see who has the highest combo. If there are two "tied" values, simply look at who has the higher card numbers. That person is the WINNER. If you are the WINNER of the thread, you get 25 casino points. Everyone else has to subtract 5 as penalty. Go ahead and edit your ooc for casino points accordingly.
If players are caught not subtracting points, they will be disqualified from any future poker games! If players do NOT respond in a timely manner despite posting one hand, they will be considered no longer part of the game (-5 penalty for "losing"). The wait period for a timely tag should be 12 hours before moving onwards. You may play multiple poker games at once.
and be blue rolled 5 12-sided dice:
10, 12, 10, 9, 7Total: 48 (5-60)
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 8:04 pm
"...if you win again, doctor, then I'm going to guess that you cheated somehow." Austin wasn't sour, though, not really as he settled in at the new table -- drink clinked down one one side, and cigarette propped carefully next to it. He settled his bag on his seat and pushed his glasses up on his nose, watching as the other two followed, perhaps searching for some way either of them could pocket a card, or otherwise sneak something past him --
There was nothing, of course. But not only hadn't he won, but he lost. What was with that?
Not this time.
Coins: 79 / 130
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Character's name: Austin Character's faction: University Character's journal link:Here Character's survival stats: Austin ElswoodView BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MY CHARACTERHERE.
Austin's slim and a bit taller than average at 5'10' with sandy hair shorn short on the sides, longer and curly on the top. His eyes, behind a pair of thin wire thick plastic frames with the wrong prescription, are faded green and usually amused; his skin is fair, freckling in sun unless he's careful; his mouth is just a little too full, in a way that appeals to most people.
The Semblance of Unity rolled 5 12-sided dice:
12, 11, 2, 7, 2Total: 34 (5-60)
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Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 8:10 pm
"If I win again, it just means I'm determined." He ordered iced tea (not long island iced tea) and sipped it once, cautiously, before determining it tasted safe. He eyed Austin. It would be fun to buy him, or both. A non-matching set. And when he got bored, like with most toys, he could trade them in for newer things. Yes, it was fun to think of men in cosumeristic terms. Harvard liked possessing things.
"Are you a sore loser? Or you, Liam?" He was always interested in things that could push buttons. This time Liam was close enough that Harvard could reach over and brush an invisible speck of dust off of Liam's shirt.
Hand: 12, 11, 2, 7, 2
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Character's name: Dr. Harvard Falls Character's faction: University Character's journal link:Here Character's survival stats: #80 Jersey Number: 15 BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MY CHARACTER 35 year old linguistic anthropology professor. Dark hair and beard. Smokes. [x]
Seeing as Liam didn't have a choice he followed along obediently, sinking down into the seat on Austin's right. A second latter a drink was set down beside him, and he took it, biting back an automatic 'thank you' as he remembered what these people were doing to them. The first drink was a long one, giving the dealer plenty of time to shuffle and send out cards.
He stiffened as Harvard reached over to touch his shoulder, not quite shying away from him. More startled than actually upset. This time. "Not in cards, no." Not in anything he wasn't especially good at.
Besides, With Austin int eh game, Liam wasn't expecting to win. He never did.
Maybe it was the drink, maybe it was the stress of everything else. Liam leveled blue eyes on the older man, features cooling into something a little more challenging than Harvard was used to seeing from him. "How about you?"
Coins: 69/135
9, 3, 6, 1, 5
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and be blue rolled 1 12-sided dice:
12Total: 12 (1-12)
"Generally I just try not to lose. Then you don't have to worry about being gracious toward the a*****e who beat you, as if somehow you owe him something just because you lost." Which meant that the answer was clearly yes: Austin was the worst kind of bad sport when he lost. It was why he didn't usually engage in competitive sports, only in competitive sport players. It didn't hurt so much to lose when it was one place removed.
In fact, occasionally it could be kind of entertaining.
Playing like this, it was easy enough for him to forget just where they were, what was going on around them. Instead it was like being back with some of his friends, goofing off and getting drunk and, now and then, flirting something fierce. Or at least Austin flirting. He took another card with a grin.
"So I think I'll do that this time around, too."
Hand: 10, 12, 10, 9, 7 12
The Semblance of Unity rolled 1 12-sided dice:
9Total: 9 (1-12)
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 8:29 pm
"That sounds like a challenge to instill a proper sense of graciousness in you, Austin," Harvard said, looking at his cards. He tapped for a new one. The idea of Austin as a sore loser was fun, and not unexpected. He hadn't missed Liam's look either. It was more challenge, more bite, than he'd seen in the man the entire time they'd roomed together. He wondered what it would be like if the man really cracked.
"Liam, I know that even in losing you can win." A genuine smile accompanied the sentence. It was a matter of manipulation. There was something to be gained from everything, even it it was only an alleviation of boredom. Harvard was, in some ways, like an adrenaline junkie - he played his games of pushing, both subtle and not, and it thrilled him.
Hand: 12, 11, 2, 7, 2, 9
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Beejoux rolled 1 12-sided dice:
5Total: 5 (1-12)
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Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 8:36 pm
Blue eyes flicked from Harvard very briefly to glance Austin's way at that comment, but they didn't linger, snapping back to the older man as he waited for an answer. Only Harvard's response to Austin was enough to cool the challenge, replacing it with something closer to puzzled, before he looked away all at once.
It could have been the rum and coke making his features flush subtly, or it could have been something else entirely. A familiar sort of averted gaze that one of the two men beside him might recognize.
"I don't think that applies in this case." His teeth grit, and like so many times in the past, he wished he hadn't of said anything at all.
He tapped the table, and discarded one of his cards.
9, 3, 6, 1, 5, 5
and be blue rolled 1 12-sided dice:
5Total: 5 (1-12)
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 8:38 pm
Austin actually snickered; a brief snort of sound, at Harvard's confident assessment of the situation, at Liam's nervous look, or maybe at the idea of him being gracious at some point in his life. As he took his card, slowly, he leaned back: rearranging his hand carefully and laying them down in front of him.
This time, it was just a touch challenging. Two pair, but it was at least a bette two pair. He raised his eyebrows questioningly at Harvard, as if to say beat that, will you? And maybe he would, but it didn't make Austin any less cocky.
"I did fencing, in high school." It was only half suggestive, because it was also true. And probably not at all a surprise, all things considered. "I was pretty good at it, though, so it never really instilled any sense of losing well in me."
And he thrust a thumb absently in Liam's direction, leaning in to take one last pull on the cigarette. He was about done with it, but it wouldn't do to just abandon it. "He lost for years, though, I think, before he finally started winning games."
The Semblance of Unity rolled 1 12-sided dice:
7Total: 7 (1-12)
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Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 8:53 pm
Harvard just smiled at Austin's hand. It was alright if he lost once, maybe. "Fencing? You going to try to run me through?" There was a wealth of suggestion in that and a dare. He didn't think Austin would or could. Not forcefully. He hummed for a second and tapped the table, discarding a card. If all poker tables were like this, he might have played more poker. But Harvard had spent time with language books instead. He never regretted it.
"Broaden your horizons, Liam. Open up a little. Try new things." Harvard shook his head. Try new people, Liam. Harvard had a sneaking suspicion that Liam had never done anything truly crazy in his life. He was the kind of guy who probably got quiet when drunk instead of letting slip interesting things. He took a drink of his tea and let his foot jostle into someone's under the table.
Hand: 12, 11, 2, 2, 9, 7
CARD FINAL
I AM SUBMITTING MY HAND My card combination: two of a kind Inventory link: 80 - no cash used Character name: Harvard Falls
Beejoux rolled 1 12-sided dice:
5Total: 5 (1-12)
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 9:00 pm
The color continued to raise in Liam's face, and he tried to hide it with another long drink from his glass, but that backfired with Austin's jab at his lack of a winning streak made him choke. Somehow he managed to spill, but it took a bit of coughing, a bit of chest thumping, to relearn how to breath normally, and by then Harvard was needling at him again.
His rum and coke hit the table with a little more force than was strictly necessary as he turned a withering look on the language professor. "You don't know me well enough to know what I have or haven't tried." He'd have yanked his feet away from the ones that had bumped them under the the table if he'd had any idea it could have been Harvard, and not Austin.
Another tap on the table, another card, and Liam glanced down at it, assuming a loss, before doing a double take. "Austin, three of a kind, wins, doesn't it?" He didn't sound as if he believed it.
There was a very long pause, in which Austin considered his options -- because, until that unexpected moment, he hadn't even imagined Liam could win. He stared at the cards, tipped his head a little, and then offered a flash of a smile.
"Uh...no. The twelves definitely win." And maybe he could have convinced his friend it was true, but the dealer didn't seem impressed, or convinced. He rolled his eyes a little and, instead, set the coins down in front of Liam, taking five of Austin's away.
Coins: 79 - 5 + 10 for wordcount = 84
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 9:15 pm
"Is this a first, Liam? Was your cherry popped?" He divved the appropriate coins to the dealer.
"Wanna move on - maybe another table will work for you, Austin, finally."
COINS: 100/130 - 5 + 10 105/130
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Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 9:21 pm
To be honest, Austin probably could have convinced Liam that his two pair were of higher value. The dealer spoiled the game though, and cool blue eyes shifted to the side before a relatively soft punch was delivered to Austin's arm.
Whatever relief winning might have brought him, it was short lived. Harvard had never been able to leave well enough alone. The fading flush of color came rushing back, and a very irritated 'no' seemed to be ground out between his teeth before he was finishing off the last of his rum and coke.
Coins: 94 / 135
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 9:28 pm
Austin's reply was just a snort -- collecting his coins and finishing off his drink. He'd leave the cigarette in the glass as they moved to the next table.
He didn't throw a fit, at least, but he also didn't reply, not to either of them. Sore loser indeed, just in a quiet way. He'd probably take the next game much more seriously.
