Ah. A natural ebb and flow, I suppose.
Are you going to join the new club?
ETA: Meant to reply directly to you so you’d get a notification. @asterion
Only two and a half hours until our Friday night poker game! (9:30 Eastern.) This week, again, we’re playing “Showtime Hold’em”, which really has the shallowest of learning curves. It plays exactly like our Wednesday game, same stacks and blinds, etc. The only difference being that after someone folds, you can see the cards they folded. That’s it. If we get a good-size turnout, and most people have folded before you get to the flop or turn, it can help you play draws, but otherwise it’s pretty much the same game we’re all familiar with.
C ya there!
that spreadsheet is flawed. How do you have more points than me for the last week when I finished ahead of you?
also, nevermind because apparently, I don’t know how to read
LOL
We missed you tonight! There’s a good HU battle going on right now, very evenly matched.
Thanks all who joined for this game tonight. I must say I rather like this new Showtime variant. Also, I am in the first position now by virtue of me completing 10 games and SlackerInc’s 11th game not being much better than the lowest of his previous 10.
From now on the point totals will increase much slower for longtime players but newer players can still make fast progress.
Congrats, TGIMTTP! I will have to really be on my game Wednesday to see if I can regain the pole position.
@TheGunIsMightierThanThePen Can you say more about what you liked about this variant? Playing draws? Or just seeing more about how your opponents play?
Four things I can think of:
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For me, the biggest factor is that I can see how opponents who didn’t win a hand play the various types of boards with their cards, and as the game goes on I gather more and more information
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Seeing the folded cards helps with narrowing down the ranges of opponents who are still in the hand
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Seeing the folded cards is useful when I’m in late position because with cards I might otherwise have limped in with in normal Hold’em, now I can confidently fold them pre-flop if I see one or more players matching my cards
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Similar to #3, if I am on a flush or straight draw and I see my outs taken away by folded cards, I am more inclined to fold if someone’s raise makes the pot odds too bad
Nice summary! Thanks.
Reminder that the weekly flagship no-limit Hold’em game starts in two and a half hours! (8 p.m. Eastern.)
While you’re there, sign up for this week’s Friday variety game, the NLHE “Heads Up Challenge”! Just as it sounds, it will be all HU, two players per table, until we have one winner. Fun!
Yay! I came in 2nd again!
And I came back from near dead to win! Pretty cool for both of us.
Again, don’t forget about the big HU Challenge Friday. 
The win brings me back into the lead on the standings, and in fact the entire leaderboard is back to the same order as it was from Sept. 2-10.
Wow. I didn’t know that someone started up the SDMB poker games again. It was the only reason I ever read the Game Room forum, otherwise I would have noticed this earlier. I played them for a long time, but the games were still going at least until 2016, I have the results from some of the games we played that year. But yeah, we were down to maybe 3 to 4 players at the end. We were using AIM to keep a game chat going to avoid the limited chat in the pokerstars game. That’s how the OG rolled.
Updating the software now, I’ll try to see if I can figure out how to join.
Cool! Nice to get the OG players aboard. Yeah, just let me know your screen name and I’ll make sure to admit you in plenty of time to play this Friday.
In my other poker club, we use Discord to voice chat during the game. Definitely easier than messing with the little chat box. Would people here be up for that?
BTW, your post confirms a nagging sense that I had: that a lot of people on this board who might like poker aren’t necessarily reading the Games forum. It’s too bad if there are a bunch of people oblivious to its existence as a result!
I recall that after the poker game a handful of us would sometimes head over to Yahoo Games and play cribbage and perhaps another game or two. Yahoo Games shut down about the same time we stopped playing. The internet was more fun back then.
Discord should work, I’ll need to dig around and find my old headset.
Dag, I just added you. We’re now up to a full dozen in the club! One of these Wednesdays, we’re actually going to start out on two tables and Manson’s “final table” joke will become moot. 
I just created a Discord server, also called Memeing Tillions (although I guess the “also” is questionable given PokerStars’s failure to act in approving that name 
). This invite link expires in one day, but if anyone sees this too late, LMK and I’ll generate another one: Discord
Sweet. Joined the Discord server.
Right on, two and a half hours until we shuffle up and deal!
Right now, we have three people registered. We need at least one more to have proper semifinals!