Weekly Poker night starting Thurd 17th - $5 entry

Twit · Post by **Twit** » 11 Aug 2006 09:23 am

I has paid up. I plan to go all in on the first hand, lose it, then give you all negative feedback for being noob cheaters.

pilonv1 · Post by **pilonv1** » 11 Aug 2006 10:40 am

I propose 2nd place gets their $5 back

jizzlobber · Post by **jizzlobber** » 11 Aug 2006 12:25 pm

2nd place doesn't get shit, winner takes all baby!

the winner ends up with all the chips, that's the money!

Blotto · Post by **Blotto** » 11 Aug 2006 12:57 pm

if someone drops out i'll jump in......

jizzlobber · Post by **jizzlobber** » 11 Aug 2006 01:01 pm

no worries.

if someone hasn't paid by wednesday night, reserves then have a chance to jump in.

you're first of the reserves blotto!

also, if we get enough reserves i'll just set up another table and we'll have 2 games running.

Blotto · Post by **Blotto** » 11 Aug 2006 03:17 pm

no probs mate.... i'll keep an eye on the thread if someone drops i'll DD the $$$ over....

jizzlobber · Post by **jizzlobber** » 11 Aug 2006 03:20 pm

also, every wednesday you can reserve your seat for the following week, so keep an eye on this thread around then

Blotto · Post by **Blotto** » 11 Aug 2006 03:25 pm

will do Jiz.... cheers mate..

DjBigK · Post by **DjBigK** » 11 Aug 2006 03:27 pm

I really need to get an XBOX360

How much is the subscription to Live?

$700 (X360) + $80 (Live) = Paid off in 12 weeks

jizzlobber · Post by **jizzlobber** » 11 Aug 2006 05:19 pm

ok blotto you're in, ministry won't be here so you can take his seat.

Froggy · Post by **Froggy** » 11 Aug 2006 07:06 pm

I'll pay when I get some money in my bank account on Tuesday! (Yes I don't have 5 bucks in it at the moment I keep my money in ING so I can't be fucked transferring 5 bucks til then).

Adrioba10 · Post by **Adrioba10** » 11 Aug 2006 10:24 pm

Hey Jizzy its me from the xboxworld forums...Im desperate to get in on this...I got the $5 ready to send...just tell me if I can get in or am I on the reserve list???....cheers

jizzlobber · Post by **jizzlobber** » 11 Aug 2006 10:29 pm

g'day mate

you're 1st reserve for now but there's a chance one of the others won't pay/play, keep an eye on this thread.

also if a few more players shows some interest i'll make another table, but the winner takes all so if the 2nd table isn't full there won't be as much prize money.

cheers buddy

MiNiStRy · Post by **MiNiStRy** » 12 Aug 2006 10:39 am

DjBigK wrote:I really need to get an XBOX360

How much is the subscription to Live?

$700 (X360) + $80 (Live) = Paid off in 12 weeks

If you really want a 360 now go down to toys'r us and do a playbuy. I did it with my 360, and didn't even notice the money coming off my credit card

Can't wait till i get back from holidays, i'm looking forward to that free carton on tooheys extra dry platinum every week

Blotto · Post by **Blotto** » 12 Aug 2006 10:47 am

just payed the $$$ into your account Jiz....

description = Blotto

Blotto · Post by **Blotto** » 12 Aug 2006 10:59 am

is it 100% certain that Poker is actually coming out this wednesday?

if you go to Majornelson.com on the 9th of August it says this...

"Edit: Allow me to clarify. Moving forward, when we release an Arcade title...it will happen on a Wednesday. The five-title 'Arcade Wednesday' kick off promotion ends today. That said, we have not made any announcements or specific dates for previously announced Xbox Live Arcade titles. More titles are coming we just have not said exactly when"

interesting that.... who came out with the official date of the 16th?

jizzlobber · Post by **jizzlobber** » 12 Aug 2006 12:59 pm

apparently it was in OXM and on xbox.com, i'll take a look around.

if it doesn't come out I can easily transfer the money back or hang onto it 'till the game DOES come out, i'll ask you guys if that happens.

jizzlobber · Post by **jizzlobber** » 14 Aug 2006 12:04 pm

I just checked mym netbank account and can confirm twit and ozpulse have both paid for week1.

if you have paid it may take a day or 2 to show in my account (depending on bank), so don't yell at me.

if you haven't paid please do so asap, i'd like to have all payments by wednesday if possible.

cheers

pilonv1 · Post by **pilonv1** » 14 Aug 2006 12:44 pm

http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/xbox360/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

23/8

http://www.xbox.com/en-AU/games/t/texas" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ... efault.htm

Winter.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. ... ight=poker

Wednesday (8/16)
[Unconfirmed] Xbox Live Arcade: Texas Hold 'Em (Source: Official Xbox Magazine)

I'll put mine in today but I don't like our chances of getting it this week.

jizzlobber · Post by **jizzlobber** » 14 Aug 2006 01:39 pm

i'm confident it'll be with us on wednesday night.
gamefaqs don't know anything (this stuff isn't on release scedules), xbox.com says winter (august is last month of winter), and OXM is a decent source.

we'll see, if it doesn't come out i'll simply transfer the money back to everyone and put this all on hold.

Adrioba10 · Post by **Adrioba10** » 14 Aug 2006 05:06 pm

since Im on the reserve list just like to remind u that I have the $5 ready to send just incase anyone dosent make the payment deadline

jizzlobber · Post by **jizzlobber** » 14 Aug 2006 05:44 pm

i'll let you know on wednesday mate

Twiztid Elf · Post by **Twiztid Elf** » 14 Aug 2006 07:33 pm

Inn-seys. Can't wait to take you guys ca$h!

Twiztid Elf · Post by **Twiztid Elf** » 14 Aug 2006 07:52 pm

We're not going to be betting money. We took a step back on poker and we did something very cool that hasn't been done before. Poker -- and this is one of my pet peeves around casino games on consoles and systems out right now -- was designed for those games based around money. And poker isn't just about money, it's about risk-reward. If there is nothing to risk, then people don't play right. So, that's why blackjack just sucks. After a while those games are just dumb. Because what is the point? It isn't a very fun game in and of itself from a play mechanic standpoint, and if there isn't any money, people stop playing it right. Poker, if there is no money, is then played wrong. People just go all in, all in, all in on every hand, and it's frickin' stupid. If there is no money or nothing to lose, they just ruin the game. If you try to play party or poker stars, I won't play anymore on points. I tried.

So we took a step back and said, OK, this could be a tent pole franchise for us, a huge, huge franchise for us. We have Live. We have all the raw materials, we're going to build a poker game. What are we going to do? So we came up with this concept of virtual consistent bankrole. Virtual consistent bankrole is the concept of, it's not money, but it's a theoretical point system -- but specific to poker. It's not Microsoft points or GameScore, or anything like that. You have three different versions of the virtual consistent bankrole: one for single-player play; one for player-match play, and one for competitive play. And it's tied to your Gamertag. We track how many times you go to the ATM and we actually put you in the negative. You're going to start off with $5,000 or whatever, and it's tied to your profile. You can't lose GamerScore points, but it's tied to your profile and that's permanent. You can go into the negative. So if you choose to be an idiot and go all in, all in, all in, and you lose all your money, typically in these games you go to the ATM and you withdraw another $5,000 and you start over. You can go negative $5,000, negative $10,000, negative $15,000. That will do two things: it will be permanently tied to your GamerTag. It's non-erasable. Ever. The second thing is we have rooms. And the higher stakes rooms have entrée fees. So if you don't have a certain balance in your point account on your Gamertag, you don't get into the higher rooms. And that's where you make all the money. You're going to have to dig yourself out of your negative GamerScore by playing the low-stake rooms and playing well, or you're never going to get out of your negative situation.

It will show when you're in the poker game. You'll have a point balance and when you're in the game you'll see everyone else's virtual bankrole and they can see yours.

Right, so in play-testing we've seen that people actually, suddenly, play right. They play the way they're supposed to play, and they don't go all in unless they have the cards or they really want to go all in.

Player-match play sounds like the go for this.

jizzlobber · Post by **jizzlobber** » 14 Aug 2006 08:03 pm

i'm glad they thought up a good system, because one prob with the poker games I played was random idiots would enter and go all in before the flop 'till someone would call.

this was one of the reasons why I wanted to play for real money, people play properly and the winner gets a little bit of dosh