Tollie's Game Room

Sunday, August 19, 2018

(07:21 UTC-4..First Report)
First run Poker...at first one pot pusher, but when the other 4 players, didn't call for 3 hands.....got the hint and left......then for several hands my kind of poker won 2 blind pots, and a couple of small pots.....that's my game.......was actually thinking of extended play, then on or about hand 17 a strong raid of kamikaze appeared......and the ye old Trollie make a reluctant retreat.....20 hands played.....both 16+ hands and earned cash missions complete.......11,900$ into the bank....
First hand Crescent.....after the deal 53/104 and 1 foundation pile already complete....end result 95/104 and 6 complete.....not a clear....but a nice game.....last night after I posted here 1 last game a 92/104......played Aces Up, 1 game 46/48.....and a winner on Fall Spades......1st roulette Poker...300K
(17:03 UTC-4)
Re-learned a lesson I had forgotten ....you can't judge a game in short sessions.....really haven't given Blackjack 21 a fair shake......played Poker for about 50 minutes.....59 hands.....longest stint in quite awhile...200/100 blind table, with few exceptions....a good table.....after about 25 minutes was down about 5K.....almost walked.....hadn't caught a hand.....and then in a space of about 10 minutes started catching some hands.....made the 5K back and another 14K+ on top of that....okay .6K of that was on slots....but I'm thinking at some point I should play longer sessions of Blackjack 21.....haven't quite decided yet when........I've only played 448 hands....really a small sampling to make a negative judgement on......
(Day's End UTC-4)
Have 2 drops later tonight, one I might take, the other probably not...therefore regardless of when I take them they will be counted in tomorrows total.....
(Days End Poker)
Total Bank: 74.25M / Net Gain Today: 755K / Drops(6)&Roulette(2): 720K /
Tables/Slots: +25K / Hands Played Today: 79 / Total Hands Played: 19658 /
(Day's End Blackjack 21)
Total Bank: 46,875$ / Net Gain Today: 1200$ / Drops(5)&Roulette(1): 1200$ /
Tables: 0$ / Hands Played Today: 0 / Total Hands Played / 448 /
(21:53 UTC-4)
Cleared a Crescent just before I turned the lights off and hit the hay.....nite all....

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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)

(comments reviewed before posting )

( 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