Tollie's Game Room

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

(05:30 UTC-4)
So about 17:00 yesterday my WiFi went down....where I live that is part of the package....still off about 21:15 local time so I decided to go to bed.....no point in doing a day's end for yesterday
First run to the tables, won a blind pot, and I decent pot, 16 hands and 480$ to the good
(09:44 UTC-4)
I stand corrected.....twice on my run to the Blackjack 21 table this AM, the dealer stood on 17 twice with a losing hand.....so that rule seems to be in effect...played 18 hands (10$ bet/hand).....had 4 Blackjacks and other winners including being dealt 20 a few times.....came away 115$ in the black.....was on a hot streak and decided to quit when I was ahead.....
Still bangin' my head against "Crescent Solitaire" no winners but did have a game today with 3 foundation piles complete......must admit to occasionally playing one of the easier games just to clear one
(13:24 UTC-4)
Decided to hit the poker tables to see if I could win enough to get a chip before the only roulette spin of the day....and to use my 5 slot spins.....first kamikaze, and then the two big stacks got to playing high stakes chicken.....one large pot was won by a high card..not even a pair.....oy vey....got out of there without the chip.....and then hit the wheel for 800k.....I know if I had the chip and spun on the higher wheel that may have been 1.6M (- the house cut) and then again who knows.....I'll take the 800k any day in the week and twice on Sunday......
(21:26 UTC-4)
Time to close the books on today...I have 2 more drops I could take tonight......the first a poker drop at 22:22....which I will take because it will give me a chance at 2 roulette spins for the next 2 or 3 days...(it will be counted in this day's end).....and the other is a Blackjack 21 drop at 23:20.....which I'll let slide to tomorrow
(Day's End Blackjack 21:)
Total Bank: 16670$ / Net Gain Today: 2315$ / Drops(7)&Roulette(2): 2200$ /
Tables: 115$ / Hands Played Today: 18 / Total Hands Played: 99 /
(Day's End Poker:)
Total Bank: 66.4M / Net Gain: 960.6K / Drops(8)&Roulette(1) 960K /
Tables/Slots: 585$ / Hands Played Today: 26 / Total Hands Played: 19431 /

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(Both the Poker and Blackjack 21, that are mentioned in this blog are games by "Super Happy Fun Time)

(This is just commentary on my journeys around online gaming, truth be told with few exceptions I play mostly solitaire games.....the two notable exception at present is a "free" poker site and a "free" blackjack site....please note.......no real money changes hands....just faux game money)

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( my only association with any of the games I have listed links for or mentioned here is because I play the games....the opinions are my own)

(This is my logbook if you will of my play...it's mostly for me....but if it helps anyone then that's okay too)

(I tend to post sometimes several times a day.....rather then start a new post.....I just edit the existing post and tack on to it....I generally post for the last time during the day between 20:00 UTC-5 & 21:30 UTC-5)

Glossary of Terms Spades

A game: made up of several hands, collect 500 points and you win....you can also win regardless of you're score if your opponents score -200 points or more

Bags: if you as a team take more tricks then you bid, you get 1 bag for each trick over, collect 10 and you lose 100 points

Bid: before a hand is played, based on the cards you hold, now many tricks you can win

Hand: players play one card each high card in suit takes the hand unless a trump is played and then high trump wins the hand, 13 tricks per hand

Lay of the cards: how the cards are dealt on any given hand

Nil Bid: a bid of nil......your intent to not take a trick in a hand, +100 points if you succeed, -100 points if you take even 1 trick

Over bid hand: there are 13 tricks per hand.....if the bids total 14 or more....one team will go back...maybe both

Set: a team failures to make their bid, their lose 10 points for each bid example team total bid was 7, team took 6 or less tricks....you lose 70 points.....also referred to as "going in the hole" or "going back"

Suits: Spades, Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts

Trick: one round of play in a hand

Trump: in Spades, the spades are always trump, beats everything except a higher trump, can only be played if you don't have the suit lead..must be played if trump is lead.....trump can't be lead until a player trumps in....

Trumping In: playing a trump on a trick when you are out of that suit....but it's the players choice...unless trump is lead...

We/They: as in any partners card game one of the possible names for the 2 teams....I've seen "us" & "them".....and a few others i can't mention here

Glossary of Terms Solitaire

Auto-play: when the next series of moves is obvious, the game may automatically do them.{aka: auto-fill}....

Foundation: where you're trying to more the cards to.....move them all and you win

DECK: from which cards are turned over one at a time

Relaxed: a change in the rules from the standard game to make it play easier..varies from game to game..

Re-Set/Undo: both Just Solitaire and World of Solitaire games have both a re-set and an undo option....re-set takes the game back to the start....undo will remove one move at a time....both can be useful to try other options....

Tableau: where the cards to be moved start the hand