# Come join the Memeing Tillions poker club! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** board-card-word-game\ **Created:** [July 12, 2020, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-join-the-memeing-tillions-poker-club/915091 "2020-07-12T04:48:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-join-the-memeing-tillions-poker-club/915091/21 "2020-07-16T02:40:00Z")
šŸ˜† ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2020, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-join-the-memeing-tillions-poker-club/915091/22 "2020-07-18T05:56:47Z")
Interesting hand from my TNS poker club this week. I still wonder if this was a bad fold. > **[Turned nut straight, but it was the third heart, facing river PSB from TAG...](https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/69/online-no-limit-holdem-cash/turned-nut-straight-but-third-heart-facing-river-psb-tag-villain-1774307/)** > > This is technically a tournament format, but it's actually a simulated deepstacks ring game with a group of my friends. We are Americans so can't play ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2020, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-join-the-memeing-tillions-poker-club/915091/23 "2020-07-18T06:03:12Z")
If you thought she had a flush on the turn, then why call? And if you didnā€™t think she had a flush on the turn, then why fold the river? ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2020, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-join-the-memeing-tillions-poker-club/915091/24 "2020-07-18T07:07:50Z")
I didnā€™t think she necessarily had a flush on the turn. If you look at her aggression rate, she could have had a lot of things I had beat: the ace of hearts, TPTK, two pair, maybe even a set. But on the turn, thereā€™s 1371 in the pot, and itā€™s only 274 to call: 5-1 pot odds. On the river, she bets full pot instead of half pot, and the other two players drop out, leaving me to call a bet six times as big as the one I had to call on the turn, and only giving me 2-1 pot odds. The fact that she barreled again OOP, with such a big bet, after getting called by all three of us on the turn, seems like a bad sign as well. Those are all the reasons behind why I played it this wayā€“but I do wonder about it, which is why I posted it. I donā€™t think I could ever fold the nut straight on an unpaired three-suited board with 5-1 odds though. ---
**Author:** ![MentalGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@MentalGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MentalGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2020, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-join-the-memeing-tillions-poker-club/915091/25 "2020-07-20T16:46:36Z")
I have signed up. While I donā€™t post a lot here, I am a regular here. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-join-the-memeing-tillions-poker-club/915091/26 "2020-07-22T06:32:52Z")
Welcome! I just approved you. Weā€™re up to seven players total now, a nice little group building. šŸ™‚ Next tourney is of course coming up in a little over seventeen hours as I type this. Iā€™ll remind you again an hour or two before it starts. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-join-the-memeing-tillions-poker-club/915091/27 "2020-07-22T21:55:38Z")
Hereā€™s that two hour reminder, although I see six of the seven of us are already registered. Great! That means our first tourney thatā€™s not WTA (we will ā€œpayā€ three places, in play money/leaderboard points). See you at the table. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-join-the-memeing-tillions-poker-club/915091/28 "2020-07-22T23:42:04Z")
Bring your A-game! Iā€™ve only had 5 beers so far! ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-join-the-memeing-tillions-poker-club/915091/29 "2020-07-22T23:51:27Z")
Only five! BTW, looks like PokerStarsā€™ results tracker is broken. Our previous game does not show up, and I checked my other poker club and itā€™s the same deal there. So I guess Iā€™ll just start tracking peopleā€™s totals here. Iā€™ll start fresh with this week, letting last weekā€™s result fade into oblivion (which doesnā€™t step on anyoneā€™s toes but mine, since it was WTA and I won it). Iā€™m open to suggestions as to whether we should use just a lifetime total, some kind of rolling 90-day total, or a per-game average (maybe with a minimum of three games). ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-join-the-memeing-tillions-poker-club/915091/30 "2020-07-23T01:09:39Z")
Pretty sure I was robbed somehow ā˜¹ Start another tournament after you finish that one. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-join-the-memeing-tillions-poker-club/915091/31 "2020-07-23T01:13:37Z")
Iā€™m up for it. For those who werenā€™t there, Manson was for some reason unable to rebuy even though it was well within the first hour. With that and the results/standings tabs not working, Iā€™m a little worried PokerStars is not properly maintaining their Home Games code or somethingā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-join-the-memeing-tillions-poker-club/915091/32 "2020-07-23T01:19:05Z")
Where are the standings anyway? They have standings for home game groups? ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-join-the-memeing-tillions-poker-club/915091/33 "2020-07-23T01:57:08Z")
They are supposed to, but they donā€™t seem to work anymore. Okay, Iā€™m still the man to beat. šŸ•¶ Fought my way back from the short stack to take it down. I will set up a ā€œjust for funā€ 8-game tourney again, to start in a few minutes, for me and Manson and anyone else who feels like joining. Wonā€™t count for club standings though. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-join-the-memeing-tillions-poker-club/915091/34 "2020-07-23T02:03:34Z")
Here is our first leaderboard, such as it is: 1. SlackerInc 68K T2. MotherMucker2 (-17K) T2. Frostedglass (-17K) T2. Mentalguy31 (-17K) T2. manson1972 (-17K) ETA: Not sure where that weird formatting came from. I suppose in the future without the ā€œTā€, it will look better. ETA2: Iā€™m not counting the 3K vig against anyone. I initially forgot to deduct my own buyin, but I fixed that. ---
**Author:** ![TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thegunismightierthanthepen/32/2981_2.png) [@TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheGunIsMightierThanThePen)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-join-the-memeing-tillions-poker-club/915091/35 "2020-07-23T02:15:09Z")
Thanks for the game today. Is the leaderboard based on finishing position in the tournaments, or just the total money won? ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-join-the-memeing-tillions-poker-club/915091/36 "2020-07-23T02:17:16Z")
Yeah, it was fun! I am so far just posting how much total play money has been won or lost (not counting vig/rake). But Iā€™m open to suggestions for alternate ways to compute/display it. Certainly if we get new members months from now, it wonā€™t be fair to them if they can never realistically catch up. ---
**Author:** ![TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thegunismightierthanthepen/32/2981_2.png) [@TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheGunIsMightierThanThePen)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-join-the-memeing-tillions-poker-club/915091/37 "2020-07-23T02:27:39Z")
How about each player gets (number of players) / (finishing position) points, and only the best 10 tournament results from the past year counts? So today you would get (5 / 1) = 5 points, and new players only have to play for a maximum of two and a half months to reach the top of the leaderboard. This is based off of the player ranking algorithm of an international sports federation which I follow. EDIT: hmm, after some thinking I see this could be biased towards players who enter tournaments with a lot of other players. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-join-the-memeing-tillions-poker-club/915091/38 "2020-07-23T02:29:51Z")
Iā€™m cool with that if everyone else is. Can you make and manage a Google Sheets spreadsheet, that we can all access with the link? Thatā€™s what someone does in my other poker club (they use a form of exponential decay that I consider needlessly complex, so we donā€™t need to emulate that aspect). ETA: Now I saw your edit. The other thing that occurred to me is that people today didnā€™t have an incentive to finish third instead of fourth, so if we change that we should probably wipe out what we have so far (Iā€™m kneecapping myself for the second week in a row, LOL). Iā€™m not as worried about it biasing toward large fields, though, because itā€™s always more lucrative to win a bigger tourney. ---
**Author:** ![TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thegunismightierthanthepen/32/2981_2.png) [@TheGunIsMightierThanThePen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheGunIsMightierThanThePen)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-join-the-memeing-tillions-poker-club/915091/39 "2020-07-23T02:39:12Z")
Sure, I can make the spreadsheet. Might take a day or so to get everything working correctly. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-join-the-memeing-tillions-poker-club/915091/40 "2020-07-23T02:49:48Z")
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