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Buster Gonad (and his unfeasibly large testicles)
Marcus Aurelius
Roger Mellie
Hi Kiwi John,
I totally agree that it's just meant as a fun distraction, I've never at any point suggested it should be attempting to emulate any of the online poker sites where real money is involved.
And yes, I know this thread is for discussing ideas for improving the game and adding to the fun of it. What I am saying is that, in my opinion, a good game is actually more fun. That generally applies to any kind of game, in my view. I don't subscribe to the view that you have to be treating something really 'seriously' just because you'd like it to be a better game.
Here's an analogy. I invite a bunch of my buddies round for a Saturday evening poker game. No real money involved, it's not a 'serious' game, but nevertheless, everyone wants to win, they want to utilise their skill and their cunning – and sure, get a bit of good luck too – in order to beat the other guys. It's a challenge to try to outplay the other guys and win the game, and it's fun/enjoyable/exciting because of that. Everyone starts out with 5k chips, and once you're out, you're out.
However, when the guys arrive at 7pm, my three kids are still up, and they're desperate to play too. And because it's not a 'serious' game, and we're a nice bunch of guys, we let them join in. They play just about every hand, they shove all their chips in willy-nilly, one of them lucks out with just about the worst starting hand you could get and wins a huge pot, the other two lose all their chips, but when we say, 'that's it, you're out!', there will be tears and tantrums before bed if we don't relent, so we give 'em another 5k chips each and carry on.
Basically, they totally fuck up the game! But that's okay, they're just kids, we have a laugh about it. However, come 8 o'clock, I say, right, kids. bedtime! And off they go to bed, tired but happy to have played the game with the grown ups. Then I crack open the whisky, sit back down, and say 'okay, guys – now lets play some poker
'I'm being a bit long-winded as usual, so I'll try to shut up now
My bottom line is that, for me, a good game is actually more fun. And I don't see that it would be all that hard to have some tables where the chips you start with are all you get, once you're out, you're out. That would make for a good game. I'll try to bow out of this thread now, tbh, I don't really give that much of a shit, I do play on some of the actual online poker sites you mentioned, I know they're there for more 'serious' poker if you want to call it that, and if that's what I want to play, that's where I'll go. Like everyone else, if I play poker on achat it's more about the social aspect than anything else, I would just enjoy that much more if it was complemented by a better game of poker! As is, if there were rooms of a different sort for socialising in in the game, like a bar or lounge or something as other people have suggested, I'd probably go there instead. Mostly in the game I just want to fuck anyway, haha…
For what it's worth, I tend to agree with what you said in your previous post vis-a-vis private rooms. For me, I think it would promote cluiquiness and discourage in-game social interaction. If you can see who's in a room, then you would be able to hang out with your friends etc anyway, but it shouldn't prevent anyone else from entering, otherwise it just stops people meeting other people. And yeah, have the ignore function for jerks. If everyone in a room has the same individual on ignore, they'll likely leave pretty quickly. In fact, if they could fix it so that if everyone in a particular room has a person on ignore, then that person can't get into that room, that would work…
Federico García Lorca
Frank Sidebottom
