# Hey Buddy, Can You Spare a Buy-In?......SDMB Poker, 1st Qtr. 2009 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 2, 2009, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-buddy-can-you-spare-a-buy-in-sdmb-poker-1st-qtr-2009/479626 "2009-01-02T20:03:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-buddy-can-you-spare-a-buy-in-sdmb-poker-1st-qtr-2009/479626/1 "2009-01-02T20:03:18Z")
These are rough times, my friend. Economic Crisis. Lay-offs and shut-downs. An impending changing of the guard. Oh, and the occasional panhandler looking for some change on the corner of “Poker Ave” and “Buy-In Street”. There you will find the seediest of hookers, the most rigged of rigged blackjack games, beer with expired shelf life, and those who love the game but struggle to keep their existence above the $.02 line. There, you will find our beloved **Oslo** amid the grit and grime of Poker City with his back against the wall, clinging on to a dime and 2 pennies. 2008 has been a cruel year for our friend, desperately navigating his way through the shadowy world of state-imposed laundering laws, rigged charity tournaments, unprosperous freerolls, and beatdowns he repeatedly endures from the nefarious SDMB poker gang. This is a man screaming loudly on the inside while his nervous eyes on his bloodied face search desperately for a way out. Come join us in the on-going saga of a man’s bare-knuckle fight and survival in the proverbial story of the “Chip and a Chair”. I hear it’s a good read, but even better to be a part of the story… The history: [The Beginning](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=300208) [The SDMB World Poker Tour on Pokertropolis…Rude and Grim when you go All-In](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=319088) [March of The Penguins - SDMB Pokertropolis Fourth Quarter, 2005](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=338048) [\*BOOM Goes the Dynamite - SDMB Pokertropolis First Quarter, 2006](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=352712) [Pray for Mojo - SDMB Pokertroplis 2nd Quarter, 2006](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=366245) [Who Doesn’t Like Pie n Chips? - SDMB Pokertroplis 3rd Quarter, 2006](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=378405) [Damn the Man, the Game goes on. SDMB 4th quarter HOT poker action](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=391102) [Sharks at the tables, etc. - 1st Quarter 2007](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=401960) [“Insert Witty Thread Title Here” SDMB Poker 2nd Quarter 2007](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=415313) [Yippee Kyy Yay, Mf’r - SDMB Poker, 3rd Quarter 2007](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=427635) [I can haz ur poker chipz? - SDMB Poker, 4th Quarter '07](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=438261) [It’s Poker, Not Bingo: SDMB League 1st Quarter 2008](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=450013) [Bow Down: It’s Poker Time! SDMB Poker 2nd Q '08](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=462390) [Speculation Drives UP the Price of Poker by 10%!!! SDMB Poker - 3rd Qtr. 2008](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=473797) [Suspending the game (Oslo’s 4th quarter poker bailout plan)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=485958) New gang members (players) are always welcome for our 1+1 cent game. Our games are every Thursday, 10 pm Eastern, 7pm Pacific. Post here if your interested and we will fill you in on the details. Gang initiation will involve giving **Oslo** a beat-down by river cards. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-buddy-can-you-spare-a-buy-in-sdmb-poker-1st-qtr-2009/479626)._