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    Jaded's £2 skill game challenge

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    Re: Jaded's £2 skill game challenge Poker Dice: Round 1: Bye Round 2: Rolled a natural straight to start off :) Nearly fecked it up from there on in, but scraped a 32-28 victory. Round 3: 36-28 (Closer than it looked, I got the bonus late on.) Round 4: Ouch... lost 38-31, played really badly. 5p down.

    Jaded's £2 skill game challenge

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    Re: Jaded's £2 skill game challenge

    Is this on the Poker Client ... because I cant see it ?? I can see HBJ (Holdem Black Jack) but not penny tables ??
    D'oh... sorry! http://skill.williamhill.com As far as I can tell (having not played dominoes for years before this week) it's standard dominoes with a double 6 set. Have just won 3 out of 4 games against a bot, there IS skill involved - honest guv!!!

    Jaded's £2 skill game challenge

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    Re: Jaded's £2 skill game challenge

    gin rummy maybe has limited skill :unsure But not much I'd guess....
    Few people younger than 40 realise that before poker, gin rummy was pretty much the card game of choice for hard-core gamblers and casual players alike, from the 1920s through to the early ’70s. However, its glamour faded and poker slowly but surely swept gin rummy into a corner. Part of the reason for its demise was that it’s considered too skilful.
    Haven't got my copy of The Man Behind The Shades to hand, but I'm fairly sure Ungar was a more consistent winner at gin than he was at poker - he adapted to poker because of the bigger prize funds, and the fact that he'd beaten most of his competition at gin so badly that nobody would play against him! (Having come up with a reasonably successful defense of it as being skilful I'm now wondering why the hell I'm playing it... at least it's only a penny a time! :rollin)

    Jaded's £2 skill game challenge

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    Re: Jaded's £2 skill game challenge

    I think there is definitely an element of skill to dominoes :unsure keeping track of what is on the table definitely helps if there's a marginal decision to make, eg. 2 and 5 are open on the board and you have the 2:5.

    Jaded's £2 skill game challenge

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    Re: Jaded's £2 skill game challenge Player vs player blackjack is fairly skilful, GaF?, and gin rummy is definitely skilful (apart from anything else, I'd win more than 1 in 5 games if it was JUST down to luck, surely?!) I personally think poker dice is more lucky than most of the other ones, and the main skill part is knowing whether to gamble on getting the bonus or not... Dominoes appears to be nearly all luck to me, but that probably means I'm doing it wrong!

    Jaded's £2 skill game challenge

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    Re: Jaded's £2 skill game challenge Round 1: Won Round 2: Got lucky... down 43-27, (playing first to 50), when my opponent got snowed under with dominoes and resigned. Round 3: 73-2 win :) Round 4: Narrow loss 53-32. Finished 2 wins away from getting £1... Next up, blackjack at 2.

    Jaded's £2 skill game challenge

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    (Mods, feel free to move this as it's not ACTUALLY poker, but GaF used to get away with posting backgammon stuff in here so I thought I'd give it a try...) Will Hill run several 'pennyroll' games a day, for prize pools normally of £10 or £20, in dominoes, blackjack, backgammon, poker dice and gin rummy. Am setting aside £2 to play 200 of these over the upcoming few months and will track my results here. I suck at all of the games, but am hoping the added value, plus the number of people who also suck but are playing them as they're only a penny, will counter this. Edit: Forgot to say, starting now - Domino Duel. (BTW, screen name is jadedjay if anyone wants to watch - not really advised! :rollin)

    Ultra-Cheap Will Hill Gin Rummy Tourney, 7 pm Tonight

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    Re: Ultra-Cheap Will Hill Gin Rummy Tourney, 7 pm Tonight BTW, just noticed there's a maximum of 256 so significant (compared to the stakes, at least!) added value guaranteed :) Samba, if you go into Will Hill skill games you can play against (clearly-marked) bots to get a rough idea how to play - beginnerbot is free to play against. You can also set up free games against others - I'm around for a bit if anyone wants some practice. (Warning - I bluff! :rollin)

    Ultra-Cheap Will Hill Gin Rummy Tourney, 7 pm Tonight

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    (Not poker, admittedly, but I think cards are involved somewhere...) Will Hill have a weekly Crazy Tuesday tourney for Gin Rummy, not sure if I've mentioned it before... £10 prize pool, winner takes all. Entry fee? 1p! 26 in so far, would imagine it will end up with a couple of hundred which would mean 300% or so added to the prize pool... possibly worth a shot if anyone has a penny spare.

    £1K Freeroll with £1K added = £2K - Feb 9th

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    Re: £1K Freeroll with £1K added = £2K - Feb 9th "Wager over $200 in January on our Casino-side games (all games qualify) and we will send you an invitation to play in our exclusive freeroll which will have $1,000 ADDED to the prize pool." Reads to me as if it's just $1000 up for grabs. Might be worth doing if not many are in...

    Bounty Sit Out

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    If you're at table 1 of a tourney with a bounty worth £50 (80% chance) or £500 (20% chance) and he's sat out, should you: a) apply pressure to others, assuming they'll want to hold onto enough chips to keep him covered. b) concentrate on making sure YOU hold on to enough chips to keep him covered. c) write a nasty e-mail to the muppets running the site pointing out that if they ever invited you to a party in a brewery, you'd take your own bloody bottle? This is NOT a hypothetical question, btw.

    QQ Early in Turbo

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    Four hands in so no reads, blinds increasing every 3 minutes. Game #6732905903: The Hour Tournament (ID8808717) £5+£0.50 - Hold'em NL (10/20) - 2008/12/22 - 12:01:34 (UK) Table "8808717 - 13" Seat 5 is the button. Seat 1: Shawa1610 (3010 in chips) Seat 2: Jadedj (1570 in chips) Seat 3: Daffy2 (1470 in chips) Seat 4: Alflushed (1470 in chips) Seat 6: Baggins85 (1480 in chips) Baggins85: posts small blind 10 Shawa1610: posts big blind 20 ----- HOLE CARDS ----- dealt to Jadedj [:Qd: :Qc:] Jadedj: raises to 60 Daffy2: raises to 140 Alflushed: folds Baggins85: calls 130 Shawa1610: folds Jadedj: raises to 420 Daffy2: calls 280 Baggins85: raises to 1480 and is all-in Should I call it?

    Your Best Ever Comeback?

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    Just cashed in a $20 cooler from the following position, anyone got a better one? PokerStars Game #23101718809: Tournament #128385852, $20.00+$0.80 Hold'em No Limit - Level II (15/30) - 2008/12/20 23:23:54 GMT [2008/12/20 18:23:54 ET] Table '128385852 1' 10-max Seat #7 is the button Seat 1: JadedJ (30 in chips) Seat 2: Arduan (1420 in chips) Seat 3: R U Joking (1450 in chips) Seat 4: FFF69 (1500 in chips) Seat 5: Banshee902 (2970 in chips) Seat 6: raimacs (1670 in chips) Seat 7: 219marymary (1470 in chips) Seat 8: jj2133 (1460 in chips) Seat 9: Brodie (1500 in chips) Seat 10: 19EL_Tito81 (1530 in chips)

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