As doubtless you are aware, it’s Game 11 of the Bother Series of Poker this Sunday night, and the Superstack Grand Final in a fortnight’s time – feel free to come join us for either of these events regardless of if you stand a chance to win the league or not, there’s money to be won at both events.
However, for added excitement keep the evening of Sunday July 3rd free because I’m going to be running a one-off HORSE tournament. HORSE is a mixed game where you play ten hands of hold ’em, then ten hands of Omaha Hi/Lo, Razz, Seven card Stud and Seven card Stud Hi/Lo (‘E’ights or better). It is likely that most participants in the BB game are likely to be quite poor at non hold-em games (having attempted Omaha, I include myself in this), hence the hilarity, and you can learn the rules of the games here.
All games are played to limit (bets are standardised so it’s quite difficult to donk off your chips quickly) and the intention is to make this a double-stacked $20+2 tournament. And to make it more exciting as I’m rapidly approaching my 30th birthday, I’m intending on adding a ton of value.
Look out for more details soon!
Great stuff!
I have occasionally played Omaha, full houses and flushes become more commonplace, definitely an all-action game and more difficult to evaluate hand values. Haven’t played any of the other ‘new’ games though, so should be fun!
Ah damn I wish I could play. HORSE is something of my speciality; I like to be a ‘jack of all trades’. I’ve played tons of omaha in addition to hold ’em, and I’m particularly good razz, for whatever reason. I tend to do well at lowball games – the only tournament I’ve ever won was badugi.
Dude, you should totally move to the UK sometime in the next three weeks or so!
It’s actually kinda my biggest dream in life to move to England permanently.
So now you’ve made me sad. 🙁
Just saw Mark Labbett on Britain’s Got Talent. I didn’t know he could play the guitar and sing. This guy’s obviously very talented 😉
Having watched the Gory Games from a few days ago, it’s ridiculously unfair to have a 1.5 million B.C. Sphere in there. The girl who dominated the show lost purely through one bad sphere.
While I’m not normally as aggressive in my ‘must be mathematically fair’ as, say, KP, and would welcome, for example, a gameshow equivilent of Killer Bunnies And The Quest For The Magic Carrot where the person with the most points is merely the most likely to win but the winner is determined by chance, I am fairly relaxed about the ‘unfairness’ present in this show. The hideously low BC dates are rare enough that they’re not going to happen more frequently than, say, someone with 17 keys remaining winning the prize while someone with 2 keys remaining leaves with nothing, and for considerably lower stakes.
It’s almost to the point of being a hidden ‘risk/reward’/’push your luck’ mechanism present. More year spheres generally mean more points but you might knock yourself right out of contention. If this gets a second series, I wouldn’t be surprised if people who saw the first series start deliberately throwing games if they’re starting to get a few too many year spheres compared to their opposition for their personal comfort levels, though the negatives seem rare enough that it shouldn’t be much of an issue.
…Honestly, though, anything lower than about 4000BC (Most kids only manage to get 2-3 year spheres), isn’t going to be come back from, and both Rattus Rattus and David Lamb are very upfront about the prospect of stone age dates ‘worth about a million minus points’ – Granted, even after 10,000BC [Approximate year of the domestication of the dog, apparently] I thought the ‘million minus points’ was purely a joke… (Granted, given positive scores tend to be 2nd millenium dates and it’s only possible [and this is theoretical] to get 7 year spheres, 10,000 BC may as well be one and a half million BC – You ain’t coming back from that.)
…Actually the one with 1,500,000 BC is probably the weakest episode yet, and judging by the lack of some features that seem to be standard (such as displaying the scores on screen while they’re added up) I suspect was the first episode recorded.
This show is intended at least as much for educational purposes as for entertainment purposes. If they want to throw out the mathematical fairness of the game in order to push the education side to the forefront, by all means.
Heck, you could argue that it throws in a life lesson of “sometimes, life isn’t fair, and the people who do best don’t get what they deserve”…
Hm – I do think it withstands viewing from an entertainment perspective, without taking into account any educational aims it may have. Including the BC dates.
“Is it fair?” is always a weird one for games containing large elements of chance indicated up front, mind, and I think we’ve debated this beforehand. Not me and you, that is, the bar in general. While I agree that results where the best performing team don’t win aren’t just I’m not sure I can agree that they aren’t fair.
I had planned an ‘hilariously satirical’ comment RE: Gory Games, but looking at it sober, it seems a bit weak. Here it is anyway:
“How nice to see an original show, directed by Dominic Brigstocke, and edited by Adam De Wolfe, in which people have to go around fantasy recreations of historical periods, completing games that earn them ornamental objects, with a connection to time, hosted by a vaguely camp TV personality you would think totally unusuited to game shows. There’s probably a series in that, with a few subtle changes…”
Like it!
Only if they get the good Mr. B. of this parish to make the games for them.
In particular one involving a portcullis and a series of gears.