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Thursday, August 9, 2018

To paraphrase an old quote " A table, a table, My kingdom for a table"......morning run to the tables......first table.....just crazy betting pre-flop.......so jumped to table #2.......not as bad however a bunch of pot pushes.....and on top of that never really caught a hand.....four to a flush after the flop.....called a raise to see the turn....no joy....big raise.....fold.....down 3.8K.....
(08:31 UTC -4)
I've had another "Old-Timers Moment"....went to Poker to get a spin at roulette and realized I had forgot to claim the hands played mission which speeds up the clock......not the first time...I'm a dummkoph.......but on a positive note......cleared a "Crescent Solitaire"......finally
(12:27 UTC-4)
Played a few hands of "Blackjack 21"......found some glitches in the game......In the time I've been playing.....I re-call splitting a hand twice, and doubling down twice.....once each today.....not counted in my stats.....(if you want to see your stats click on your avatar)......my experience recorder ( the green line next to your avatar had gone black a few days ago) working now, had a drop down that told me I was level 2....and received a 500$ bonus..but I keep a very close accounting on my bank and if it had been added I would have lost 490$ in my last trip to the tables.....I actually won 10$.....and in the 7 hands I played I wagered 90$....but there again it is a new game.....
(16:31 UTC-4)
Because of my goof up my drops were out of sync.....had 40 minutes between drops so decided to play some poker.....I got only one of the two things I wanted, I got a good table for my style.....and proceeded to catch just one hand in 40 minutes....including the first run, losses for the day stand at just south of 9.2K but drops & roulette have gained me 220K...mixed bag......again.....
(22:28 UTC-4)
(Day's End Poker)
Total Bank: 67.8M / Net Gain Today: 310.8K / Drops(6)&Roulette(2): 320K /
Tables&Slots: -9.2K / Hands Played Today: 57 / Total Hands Played: 19503 /
(Day's End Blackjack 21)
Total Bank: 22010$ / Net Gain: 3110$ / Drops(7)&Roulette(2): 3100$ /
Tables: 10$ / Hands Played: 7 / Total Hands Played: 133 /

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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