Tollie's Game Room

Friday, August 17, 2018

(First Report: 08:12 UTC-4)
Poker, what a difference a day makes, won a blind pot, 1 very nice pot, and lost a decent pot....as usual 200/100 blind table.....had A/K twice.....once for 2 pair..lost that pot to a river straight....only 3 to the straight two to the straight on the board after turn.....other guy was chasing and got his card...but I'd make that call any day......other hand A/K...flopped a house......14 hands played...both cash and hands missions filled....have a chip for roulette......15,990$ in the bank.....Crescent only two hands played....53/104 and 87/104 with 3 complete foundation piles......Fall Spades... i winner......Aces Up (relaxed) 2 hands 45/48 & 48/48 ....according to my stats I clear 1 hand out of 12.....and with that game I'm ok with that......Blackjack 21.....14 hands....dealer had 21.....3/14......I had 21...... 0/14.....and 2 pushers.....dealer was catching and I wasn't....down 30$ (all bets 10$)
(Mid-Day Report: 12:10 UTC-4)
Didn't claim the chip for the first Poker roulette....won't have made a difference...140K...Blackjack 21...roulette..500$.....didn't play either......Two good hands on Crescent, 1st 90/104, 6 foundation piles complete, 2nd 102/104, 7 foundation piles complete, A/2 of Clubs in same tableau, A on top......nuts
.....Aces Up.....5 out of 6 hands 41/48 or better, no wins, and 1-21/48...with the sunshine a little rain must fall, but why me?......not much play, blame the USA network for programming 12 straight hours of NCIS re-runs.....
(Day's End: 22:00 UTC-4)
A day of mixed results.......decided to head back to the Poker tables...200/100 blind.....finally caught a hand, pocket Aces......end up getting "rivered".....lost my earlier wins.....and an additional 230$......glad it's just faux money......basically a day of very mixed results
(Day's End Poker)
Total Bank: 73.33M / Net Gain Today: 579.77K / Drops(7)&Roulette(2): 580K /
Tables/Slots: -230$ / Hands Played: 38 / Total Hands Played: / 19644 /
(Day's End Blackjack 21 )
Total Bank: 43,975$ / Net Gain Today: 3360$ / Drops(7)&Roulette(2): 3400$ /
Tables: -60$ / Hands Played Today: 14 / Total Hands Played: 448 /

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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