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    Exclamation Pineapple Open Face Chinese Poker Tournament!

    We've got a new variant of Chinese Poker to play through FTR's OFC lobby. It's called Pineapple OFC and it plays faster and scores more royalties than regular OFC.

    Here's how it works:
    Each player is dealt and plays their first 5 cards, just like regular OFC.
    In Pineapple, on the draw, each player draws 3 cards, then plays only 2 of those cards and discards 1.
    If you're unfamiliar, I recommend you try out the game by practicing against FTR's computer player, WAZZUP, just to get a feel for the game.

    Pineapple OFC Tournament at FTR!

    There is no buy-in, the following prizes will be awarded:

    1st Place:Choice of FTR hat or shirt
    2nd Place:Choice of FTR keychain or card protector


    Here is how it will work:

    The games will be played here: http://www.flopturnriver.com/chinese-poker/
    (You must be logged into the forum to participate.)

    Each round is timed, with each player's timer ticking ONLY during their turn, the same as a chess clock.

    • Reply to this thread by Friday, December 20 if you're interested in joining the tournament. You will be added to the list of players.
    • On Saturday, December 21, I will reply with the bracket (matches will be created using random.org) and add the tournaments in the lobby. These will be labeled "[R1] Player A v Player B".
    • All matches will be heads up.
    • You will have a 3:30 chess-clock timer for each round.
    • You will be PM'd your opponent and password for your table.
    • You must contact your opponent to setup when you would like to play your match.
    • All players will have a 48 hour deadline to finish their matches (probably longer during Christmas).
    • Failure to complete your match by the deadline will result in a DQ.
    • All matches will last for 30 rounds. Whoever has the highest overall total points at the end of 20 rounds advances to the next round of the tournament.
    • If the final round results in a player getting Fantasy Land, another round will be played. This will repeat until neither player has FL.
    • If the final round results in a tie, another round will be played. This will repeat until the tie is broken.
    • Single elimination.
    • Upon completion of your match, reply to the thread with the results.
    • Once the first round is done, the next round will be announced and the same 48 hour deadline will be in place. This will continue until there is a winner.


    In the event of scheduling conflicts, please PM me or post here and let me know the situation and we can try to work something out.

    Note: This tournament will happen during the week of Christmas, so I fully expect to run into some scheduling problems. As long as you give me notice of an expected absence from the event, I will extend the time to complete. I am really hoping to have this even wrapped up by the new year.

    If you have any questions, comments, suggestions, or notice any bugs while playing, use this thread!

    Current Players: 12
    1. MadMojoMonkey (30 rounds)
    2. OneByPhi (50 rounds)
    3. Eric (30 rounds)
    4. givememyleg (30 rounds)
    5. eastsidejohnny (30 rounds)
    6. eberetta1 (20 rounds)
    7. sam1FTR (no vote)
    8. Alep (30 rounds)
    9. dawgboy (no vote)
    10. STILL_mkd (late entry)
    11. bigspenda73 (late entry)
    12. MeGrimlock (late entry)


    Sign up Poll Results
    What would you like in this event:
    How many rounds should we play during each stage?
    no vote -> 2
    20? -> 1 vote
    30? -> 5 votes
    50? -> 1 vote

    Last edited by MadMojoMonkey; 12-31-2013 at 04:19 PM.
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    Ya, I'm in. Sounds like a gas.
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    I'm in. 30 hands/rounds for each stage is my vote.
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    in in in. 30 is fine by me.
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    I'm in, 30 rounds sounds fine.
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    I'm in. If I cannot take a person out by 20 rounds, 30 rounds is not going to help me at all
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    I'm in, thanks FTR! No rounds preference for me
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    It may be kinda late to say this, but I think more rounds would be better--50 or even 100. 20 to 30 rounds is a pretty small sample size (ok, 50 is too, but it's better). Yesterday, for example, I played a session with Eric in which I made FL and then stayed there for 7 hands! Admittedly, that's pretty extreme, but if we're only playing 20-30 rounds I think it becomes much more a test of who manages to get lucky in a short span of time than who plays best. To some extent, that's part of tournament poker, running hot at the end of a hold 'em tournament can let a less skilled player win, and even the best player in the world would have a hard time winning a tourney if he ran card dead.

    If the goal is just to have some fun playing Pineapple, all right; then 20-30 rounds is fine. But if the goal is to allow skillful play to determine results, the larger the sample size the better.
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    Our goal with this event is to attract more people to the FTR OFC Lobby, and provide our members with a fun way to socialize and win some FTR gear. I really want this event to be finished before the new year, and we'll have some long-ish tournament stages due to the holidays.

    This event is more about having some fun during the holidays than about bragging rights.

    We have a larger, more robust, months-long event planned for OFC in the new year, which will be more of a skill-based event.
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    Quote Originally Posted by OneByPhi View Post
    It may be kinda late to say this, but I think more rounds would be better--50 or even 100. 20 to 30 rounds is a pretty small sample size (ok, 50 is too, but it's better). Yesterday, for example, I played a session with Eric in which I made FL and then stayed there for 7 hands! Admittedly, that's pretty extreme, but if we're only playing 20-30 rounds I think it becomes much more a test of who manages to get lucky in a short span of time than who plays best. To some extent, that's part of tournament poker, running hot at the end of a hold 'em tournament can let a less skilled player win, and even the best player in the world would have a hard time winning a tourney if he ran card dead.

    If the goal is just to have some fun playing Pineapple, all right; then 20-30 rounds is fine. But if the goal is to allow skillful play to determine results, the larger the sample size the better.
    With keeping in mind that each game is gonna get finished in 48 hours, I think 100 hands would be way too much. Who knows how much time the two players are both going to have open to get together and accommodate a game.
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    I agree with OneByPhi that 30 hands is a small and sometimes insignificant sample size. However, it is also true that this tournament is more about having fun than finding out who is the best pineapple player at ftr.

    I do like the idea of using 100 hands for more serious challenges like ladder matches.
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    Okay. I'm all good with whatever number of rounds. I also know I play faster than some people, so maybe that's why I see 50 rounds as fairly manageable. If somebody ran their clock all the way out on most hands, it would take a long time, and at best it would probably take a couple hours. But it could be done in shorter segments (25-25 or 15-15-20) if people din't want to commit to playing all 50 at once.

    I'm sorry if I came across as arrogant or if I implied that the tourney was about bragging rights or determining the best player. I'm not big on those kinds of things. It would take a very large sample size to figure out anyway, and since most of us (including me) are still learning about the game, our skill levels would improve during the course of a long run.

    But at a small enough sample size it becomes bingo or keno. One guy gets luckier than the other (maybe the "better" player, maybe not--not that I'm saying it matters) over a very small number of hands and moves on. Although that can have its charms too, I guess.
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    Quote Originally Posted by OneByPhi View Post
    I'm sorry if I came across as arrogant or if I implied that the tourney was about bragging rights or determining the best player.

    It didn't come across as arrogant. I took it as your opinion, which I asked for. I appreciate your answer.

    I think with a more skill-based event comes a bit of good-natured bragging. It's not that the event is designed to give people something to brag about.

    I'd really like to play some larger events... where there are hundreds of games and a chance to play lots of opponents. I'm not really interested in bragging about the event, but I know that if I win, I'll talk about it.
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    OneByPhi,

    I didn't think your post was arrogant at all. It just pointed out common sense - a bigger sample size is much more meaningful.

    When we play each other it goes fast (except for my wifi issues) but I've played against slower opponents and it isn't fun. Going more than 30 hands against someone who always takes the timer down to 3:30 would be a nightmare for me.
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    Yeah OnePhi, I didn't think it was arrogant or anything like that. I was just looking at the plausibility of 4 separate pairs of people allotting time to play 100 rounds in a 48 hour span
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    I am in, I'll take 30 rounds.
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    Default Pineapple tourney

    I am in and down for whatever.
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    Good luck everyone!
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    The tournament bracket is posted. Looks like Eric and I got (un)lucky to play an extra match in round 1.

    I'm facing a delay in creating the tournament tables. I'll have them up as soon as I can.
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    Tables are created.

    Passwords incoming.


    @ dawgboy, eastsidejohnny, and OneByPhi

    Your passwords will be coming soon


    We will not officially start Round 1 until all passwords are sent and Eric and I have finished our match. Round 1 will last for ~48 hours or until all the matches are played.
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    Passwords have been sent to the ones that MMM couldn't reach because of post counts.

    They were all requested to respond in here that they received them
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    PLEASE READ THIS:
    These games are timed, and you need to be ready to get going when you start your game.

    In the last tournament, we had an accidental time-out foul on the first game because the guys were chatting a bit before they got serious. There is more time on the clock in this event, but do pay attention to it.

    You may take breaks in between rounds by waiting to click the next round button until you're ready to start the timer.
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    I have received my password.
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    I reached out to Alep, hopefully he gets in contact with me so we can play today (I'm not sure how much time I'll have to play tomorrow)
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    Password received.
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    Sam1Chips over Alep by 37.

    For some reason our game got a little messed up (we both timed out in first round, and couldn't get back into game to keep playing), so we ended up having to create our own game and I've attached the results below.

    Part 1 (1st 10 rounds) - http://www.flopturnriver.com/chinese...table.php?1520
    Part 2 (Next 20 rounds) - http://www.flopturnriver.com/chinese...table.php?1523
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    I know that I'm late, but can I receive the password?
    Thank you.
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    Word, got password
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    Mojo,

    Is it possible to review the completed tournament games that I was not involved in? I'd love to have the chance to see what lines people are taking. If not, no biggie, but if so, please clue me in on how to do it. Thanks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by STILL_mkd View Post
    I know that I'm late, but can I receive the password?
    Thank you.
    Sorry, the event had started by the time you posted. If you'd gotten your request in before I'd created the bracket & tables, I'd have accepted your entry.
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    Quote Originally Posted by OneByPhi View Post
    Mojo,

    Is it possible to review the completed tournament games that I was not involved in? I'd love to have the chance to see what lines people are taking. If not, no biggie, but if so, please clue me in on how to do it. Thanks.
    Sam1FTR posted a link to the web page with the match review. I usually try to follow the games as they're happening and I will post the link if neither of the players do.

    I think it helps not only in that it allows the players to review their opponents' play, but also in that it keeps the event a bit more transparent.

    Unfortunately, you and your opponent might have too few posts to have the permission to use links.

    Still, please go to the OFC lobby and click the "R" on the right of the match, to review. Then, you can copy/paste the URL into a post ITT, and we'll have a link to your match. If you are not allowed to post a web link, then let me know and I'll find a work-around.
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    need a late entry?
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    Results of my match with eastsidejohnny are here

    http://www.flopturnriver.com/chinese...table.php?1506

    After 30 hands, I was ahead by 1 point. Dave (EJ's real name) and I are friends and have played live together a lot in Seattle, but he has been souring on OFC, and on poker, for a while, and I think this might have been his last game of pineapple ever unless he changes his mind. He taught me a lot about regular OFC and Pineapple, but he's in med school, and I think he has come to the decision that spending so much of his time playing cards isn't such a great idea for him. I know he'll make a great doctor, and I wish him well in that.
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    Congrats, OneByPhi.

    I feel bad for Dave but it's just 1 round of 1 tournament. It won't surprise me if you win the whole thing, OneByPhi. It was just bad luck for Dave that he was matched up against you in round 1.
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    @STILL_mkd & bigspenda73:
    In the spirit of the holidays, I am willing to make some changes to the bracket and add you to the event.

    STILL_mkd will play eberetta1. I am setting this table up now.

    bigspenda will play givememyleg (if I can set it up before he plays his match with dawgboy, who is sitting at their table) The winner can play dawgboy. (I don't want to add a game to dawgboy, a new member, when I have the chance to stick-it to gmml.)

    I'm waiting to hear back from gmml before I create your table, spenda.
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    I am still waiting for my opponent to join in and play.

    Jim




    Quote Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey View Post
    @STILL_mkd & bigspenda73:
    In the spirit of the holidays, I am willing to make some changes to the bracket and add you to the event.

    STILL_mkd will play eberetta1. I am setting this table up now.

    bigspenda will play givememyleg (if I can set it up before he plays his match with dawgboy, who is sitting at their table) The winner can play dawgboy. (I don't want to add a game to dawgboy, a new member, when I have the chance to stick-it to gmml.)

    I'm waiting to hear back from gmml before I create your table, spenda.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dawgboy View Post
    I am still waiting for my opponent to join in and play.

    Jim
    Yes. Sorry about that.

    I am re-structuring the bracket to allow for late entries. You will play the winner of a match between givememyleg and bigspenda73.

    I just finished my match w/ Eric.

    Review the match here.

    The revised tournament bracket should be posted soon.

    gmml & spenda: your table and password is coming as well.
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    gg, Sean. Good luck in the next round.
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    Are we still taking late entries?

    Jim
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    Quote Originally Posted by dawgboy View Post
    Are we still taking late entries?

    Jim
    The only way I can add someone at this point is if they play you in a "round 0" match. If you're OK with that, then, yes, I can take 1 more late entry.

    Just for clarity, I don't usually take ANY late entries, but, hey, it's Chistmas!
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    Default I want to play.

    Quote Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey View Post
    The only way I can add someone at this point is if they play you in a "round 0" match. If you're OK with that, then, yes, I can take 1 more late entry.

    Just for clarity, I don't usually take ANY late entries, but, hey, it's Chistmas!
    I want to play.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dawgboy View Post
    Are we still taking late entries?
    Quote Originally Posted by MeGrimlock View Post
    I want to play.
    It's up to dawgboy. If Dawgboy says OK, then you can play against him at the table that's already created.

    Dawgboy, let me know in the thread what you want to do.

    If you know each other, Dawgboy can send MeGrimlock the password outside of FTR. Otherwise, I'll have to ask the forum manager to send MeGrimlock the pw.
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    Yes it lets play. I will give him the password.


    Quote Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey View Post
    It's up to dawgboy. If Dawgboy says OK, then you can play against him at the table that's already created.

    Dawgboy, let me know in the thread what you want to do.

    If you know each other, Dawgboy can send MeGrimlock the password outside of FTR. Otherwise, I'll have to ask the forum manager to send MeGrimlock the pw.
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    Megrimlock wins 127 after 30 rounds.


    Ironic.


    Quote Originally Posted by dawgboy View Post
    Yes it lets play. I will give him the password.
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    Megrimlock - let me know when you want to play. I'll be around today, but gone most of tomorrow and Wednesday for Christmas. If today doesn't work, Thursday is pretty wide open.
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    Well played in your game with bigspenda73, man. You got very lucky in FL a few times, but you got there from outside 6 times, which is fucking awesome. Just getting to the land is the way to make good things happen.

    BTW, I love the Alex Grey print.
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    Has anybody heard from eberetta1 lately?
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    Quote Originally Posted by OneByPhi View Post
    Well played in your game with bigspenda73, man. You got very lucky in FL a few times, but you got there from outside 6 times, which is fucking awesome. Just getting to the land is the way to make good things happen.

    BTW, I love the Alex Grey print.
    ty. yeah i def ran pretty well.

    yeah, alex grey is amazing. love all his stuff.
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    eberetta1 will try to get it in on Wednesday, 12-24 drove to fl from mn and kicking back by the pool. thought I would still be in mn, so have not been able to be as practiced up as I prefer. See you Wednesday...
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    No worries, eberetta1. Thanks for getting us up to date on your tournament plans.

    Also... hope the road food on that long drive hasn't turned you into a grinch.
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    Will be ready to play my game anytime my opponents want between 6pm and midnite today, eastern time.
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    GMML, Just scanned your game with grimlock, and I really like the way you set and play hands. Once again you got to FL 6 times in 30 hands--awesome. And even though you weren't as lucky in FL this time, you still won comfortably.

    The only hand I would have set differently was hand 25. If you don't mind talking strategy, after opp set
    Qh Js 7h 5d 4c as
    Js
    5d 4c
    Qh 7h
    (which I think might have been better set as Qh / 7h 5d 4c / Js UTG, but that's neither here nor there)
    what was the thought process behind setting Ac Kc Qd 7s 2c as
    Qd
    Ac 7s
    Kc 2c
    You ended up making the flush on the bottom anyway, although the hand got fouled when the Q came up top but the mid didn't improve. I think I would have set this as Qd / 7s / Ac Kc 2c with opp showing just one club. I assume your plan was QQ up top, AA (or 7s up) in mid, and K's-up or flush below. What factors led you to this set?

    If you feel like sharing your thoughts, please do. Good luck going forward.
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    Congrats, GMML!

    Yeah, that's an interesting hand.


    Like OneByPhi, I'd set utg as Q / 7 5 4 / J


    Seeing these 5 cards from position, I'd probably set like this:
    Q / A K 7 / 2


    My thinking is that there are only 2 more sevens left and we kind of want dead and semi-dead cards in the middle because we're trying to get KK or AA there and not much else unless the back gets super strong. We're giving up 3 to a flush in back by doing this but hopefully it increases our fl chances enough to make this worth it.

    Seeing as there are only 2 queens left, I'd also be tempted to do this so that we can get there with KK in front too:
    Q K / A 7 / 2


    Like I said in the other thread, starting with an ace, a king and a queen is interesting. This is one of the cool things about this game - there are so many things to talk about on each hand.
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    I was thinking that with



    You get value out of the 3-flush on the bottom, you can always convert it to Aces-up or Kings-up if the clubs don't come, and the mid is 2-pair drawing to beat QQ on top (if you get there). Change the deuce to another suit and the whole situation changes, but with 3 clubs in this group, I'd lean toward setting the 3-flush.
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    Quote Originally Posted by OneByPhi View Post
    I was thinking that with



    You get value out of the 3-flush on the bottom, you can always convert it to Aces-up or Kings-up if the clubs don't come, and the mid is 2-pair drawing to beat QQ on top (if you get there). Change the deuce to another suit and the whole situation changes, but with 3 clubs in this group, I'd lean toward setting the 3-flush.
    You might be right. This way our back hand is really strong so it gives us more flexibility with the mid hand (for example it can be trips if we complete our 3 card flush in back).
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    sitting for my game...
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    Assume I am playing STILL_mkd , waiting patiently for next 7 hours if needs be.
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    Women want a cookie sheet at a house 5 miles away. getting three pans at store was not god enough
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    I see that GMML and I are paired for the next round; should we work out a time that is agreeable to us both, or do we need to wait for the previous round to complete?
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    Quote Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey View Post
    No worries, eberetta1. Thanks for getting us up to date on your tournament plans.

    Also... hope the road food on that long drive hasn't turned you into a grinch.


    Frisch's Big Boy country fried steak sure tasted good on the road trip compared to the gas station food we were consuming. Stopped at Safety Harbor today on the Gulf of Tampa Bay. Christmas presents with the grandkids were already opened like 2 days before trip so no Grinch to be found.

    No pineapples found on these palm trees.
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    Quote Originally Posted by OneByPhi View Post
    I see that GMML and I are paired for the next round; should we work out a time that is agreeable to us both, or do we need to wait for the previous round to complete?
    Please wait for now and let the other tournament bracket catch up.
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    Quote Originally Posted by eberetta1 View Post
    No pineapples found on these palm trees.
    Pineapples don't grow on trees. They're bromeliads and they grow at ground level on bush-like plants.

    Have you sent STILL_mkd a PM to schedule your match?
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    Yes, sent still a msg after you mentioned it. Hurting from yet another holiday. Breakfast at 11:30, drive, Christmas dinner at 1:00.
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    STILL_mkd , where are ya... let's try to get this done today.
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    Quote Originally Posted by OneByPhi View Post
    GMML, Just scanned your game with grimlock, and I really like the way you set and play hands. Once again you got to FL 6 times in 30 hands--awesome. And even though you weren't as lucky in FL this time, you still won comfortably.

    The only hand I would have set differently was hand 25. If you don't mind talking strategy, after opp set
    Qh Js 7h 5d 4c as
    Js
    5d 4c
    Qh 7h
    (which I think might have been better set as Qh / 7h 5d 4c / Js UTG, but that's neither here nor there)
    what was the thought process behind setting Ac Kc Qd 7s 2c as
    Qd
    Ac 7s
    Kc 2c
    You ended up making the flush on the bottom anyway, although the hand got fouled when the Q came up top but the mid didn't improve. I think I would have set this as Qd / 7s / Ac Kc 2c with opp showing just one club. I assume your plan was QQ up top, AA (or 7s up) in mid, and K's-up or flush below. What factors led you to this set?

    If you feel like sharing your thoughts, please do. Good luck going forward.
    Thanks man, yeah def enjoy talking strategy.

    Yeah I don't really know why I set this hand this way, looking at it your suggestion of Qd / 7s / Ac Kc 2c is better, but I think I was hoping for QQ / AA / Flush. I often tend to put Aces in the mid, rather than up top, and I'm not sure how accurate it is but I treat a 2 flush in pineapple like I would a 3 flush in regular OFC, and a 3 flush like a 4 flush, etc.

    Looking forward to playing you! I'll shoot you a PM so we can schedule something.
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    I'm gonna have to put a DQ warning on STILL_mkd. Please respond ITT or send eberetta1 or me a PM to let us know your intentions.

    If we haven't heard from you by tomorrow @ noon-ish, I'm going to disqualify you as a no-show, which is odd, since you requested late entry.

    Hope you're doing well this holiday season.
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    Will try to stay online so he can get it played tonight, Thursday if convenient . Will also try to be available for a Friday game with STILL_mkd. He is more than likely in the joke thread which is where most of his posts appear


    Going to get in a football bet on tonight's Poinsettia Bowl.
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    GMML,

    I got your PM, but the system wouldn't let me reply to it (perhaps because I am a relative newcomer here). I am a community college teacher, and I'm in between quarters, so my schedule is pretty much wide open for the next week or so. I'm in Seattle, but keep reasonably east-coast-friendly hours. Pretty much anytime after 9 a.m. PST (noon EST) any day is cool. Since either I can't send messages via the PM network, or at least I am too dumb to figure out how, you can just text or call at {edited out by Eric and texted to GMML (this way OneByPhi won't get spam texts)} to work things out. Aloha.
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    Two things:

    1.) I wanted to put in this thread that I will be unavailable to play my match on Saturday and Sunday during the day, as I will be with my family on vacation. (I should be good to go by Sunday night). Just figured I would put this in the thread so whoever I end up drawing in the second round can see this.

    2.) I appear to have lost private messaging privileges in the last couple of days. I have tried to request to be an FTR Qualified Member a couple of times recently, as I have been active on the forum for a couple months, and I assume that it will give me access to all of the forum's features...maybe one of the MODs can give me a hand with that?
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    Quote Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey View Post
    I'm gonna have to put a DQ warning on STILL_mkd. Please respond ITT or send eberetta1 or me a PM to let us know your intentions.

    If we haven't heard from you by tomorrow @ noon-ish, I'm going to disqualify you as a no-show, which is odd, since you requested late entry.

    Hope you're doing well this holiday season.
    Sorry, STILL_mdk, but I'm going to have to disqualify you from the tournament, due to absence.

    eberetta1 and I will play against each other in a Round 1 match up. Once we're finished, I'll post new tables for the semi-final round.

    @eberetta1: I will join you at the R0T0 table once we schedule our match time.
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    ready for a match when someone else is. let me know who I play and when. I am around all day several folks here grilling.

    still_mkd sent me an email saying he is available, our roto table gone though.
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    ready to play...
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