# It's Poker, Not Bingo: SDMB League 1st Quarter 2008 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 3, 2008, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-poker-not-bingo-sdmb-league-1st-quarter-2008/432135 "2008-01-03T16:23:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Kyyrewyyoae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Kyyrewyyoae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyyrewyyoae)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-poker-not-bingo-sdmb-league-1st-quarter-2008/432135/41 "2008-02-21T16:06:10Z")
I wonder if we should try to get this moved to the new Game Room forum. ---
**Author:** ![Kyyrewyyoae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Kyyrewyyoae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyyrewyyoae)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-poker-not-bingo-sdmb-league-1st-quarter-2008/432135/42 "2008-02-21T16:15:25Z")
Or it’s already been done. Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Duality](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.duality/32/4098_2.png) [@Mr.Duality](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Duality)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-poker-not-bingo-sdmb-league-1st-quarter-2008/432135/43 "2008-02-22T02:40:50Z")
I was going to give it a try. Went to Crazy Poker, downloaded their software and installed it after scanning with AVG antivirus and Spy Sweeper. When I went to register at their website they wanted to install more software without giving me a chance to scan it first. That turned me off, I’m afraid. Is it the same at all those microgaming sites? ---
**Author:** ![fruitbat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fruitbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fruitbat)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-poker-not-bingo-sdmb-league-1st-quarter-2008/432135/44 "2008-02-22T02:50:19Z")
I am a fairly obsessive player and have been around for a long time. I would love to join you all next week, but Micro is about the only network I have never been on. Does Micro allow player to player transfers? I am a prolific poster on 2+2 so the way we usually get money on a site is to swap from another site. So I give someone some Pokerstars money and they transfer on Micro. Is there any reason that wouldn’t work? ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-poker-not-bingo-sdmb-league-1st-quarter-2008/432135/45 "2008-02-22T04:12:31Z")
Small game tonight, I amused myself by playing Solitaire the entire time. However, the results are as they should be in a fair and just world: Bestest of all: Me Next bestest: Oslo In da money: Duckie Next in line: Dag (_sniff_ it was beautiful, man) Drinking the fifth: Ast Not the bestest of all: Kyy ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-poker-not-bingo-sdmb-league-1st-quarter-2008/432135/46 "2008-02-22T04:19:59Z")
[QUOTE=fruitbat] Does Micro allow player to player transfers? [/QUOTE] It’s been a while, I think Gaming Room does, but Crazy does not. Support at Crazy hinted that it might be possible, but the requirements made it sound easier to ask the French for permission to borrow the Mona Lisa for a few days. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-poker-not-bingo-sdmb-league-1st-quarter-2008/432135/47 "2008-02-22T06:35:05Z")
[QUOTE=MissTake] Small game tonight, I amused myself by playing Solitaire the entire time. [/QUOTE] You so suck. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2008, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-poker-not-bingo-sdmb-league-1st-quarter-2008/432135/48 "2008-02-22T20:57:59Z")
The standings: 1 Miss Take 66.3 2 Robot Arm 65.8 3 Kyyrewyyoae 62.5 4 Yeticus Rex 60.1 5 Oslo Ostragoth 59.0 6 Dag Otto 54.8 7 Asterion 50.9 8 Duke of Rat 45.3 Getting tighter. ---
**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:** [February 22, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-poker-not-bingo-sdmb-league-1st-quarter-2008/432135/49 "2008-02-22T22:50:15Z")
Sorry for missing out guys…my Medi-Yeti has baseball practice now at 7pm on Thursdays until further notice. I coach the team too. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-poker-not-bingo-sdmb-league-1st-quarter-2008/432135/50 "2008-02-23T06:33:33Z")
[QUOTE=Mr. Duality] I was going to give it a try. Went to Crazy Poker, downloaded their software and installed it after scanning with AVG antivirus and Spy Sweeper. When I went to register at their website they wanted to install more software without giving me a chance to scan it first. That turned me off, I’m afraid. Is it the same at all those microgaming sites? [/QUOTE] I think that you can assume that the MG sites are safe. If it wants you to upload a revision, let it. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-poker-not-bingo-sdmb-league-1st-quarter-2008/432135/51 "2008-02-23T06:35:10Z")
[QUOTE=fruitbat] I am a fairly obsessive player and have been around for a long time. I would love to join you all next week, but Micro is about the only network I have never been on. Does Micro allow player to player transfers? I am a prolific poster on 2+2 so the way we usually get money on a site is to swap from another site. So I give someone some Pokerstars money and they transfer on Micro. Is there any reason that wouldn’t work? [/QUOTE] What **Dag** said. We don’t currently know any way for USA players to get money into the network.\* Obviously, we need someone from outside of the states to play so we can ship them money to fund games. \*One guy suggested that we sign up through Doyle’s Room (which, as a MG site, would show our games. I have no idea if Doyle’s Room can accept deposits from USA players.) ---
**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:** [February 25, 2008, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-poker-not-bingo-sdmb-league-1st-quarter-2008/432135/52 "2008-02-25T20:28:15Z")
My employees organized a bus trip to Laughlin last Saturday, and begged me to come since they know and love me as the M’Fr that you know me as well. Four hours to go 210 miles really sucks, but coming back up $450 didn’t…but most notably I saved myself from losing all of it on just two laydowns on $1-$2 NL. For both hands, I was playing against the same guy; I made the right decision to laydown my KQo with the board showing Q-T-7-6-2 rainbow. There was about $200 in the pot and he went all-in for $190. I did lose about $90 on that hand, but having top pair kept me in the hand although he was leading the betting and I was calling. Probably could have saved $50 and folded after the turn because I did was thinking he was holding at best AQ or pretending like he was…turned out it was better than that…2 pair…QTs. The second hand could have been much deadlier. I was dealt pocket Jacks and I bet $25. He then goes all-in for $292 which I would have covered. About 10 hands earlier, he did the same exacting thing, (except he had only $90 at that time) but he was holding pocket deuces. Knowing that made me teeter back and forth on whether to call him or fold…for about 2 whole minutes. Everyone else was cool with me taking that much time, because they only had the same info on this guy as I did…going all in on 22. I figured he had to have a pocket pair or AK suited, and with that suspicion that pocket Jacks usually gets hammered around here among us Dopers, I folded. Turned out he did have pocket Aces. Saved another $267 for a total of $457. I will confess right now by saying I won $300 of it on 3 Card Poker. I like that game and it seems that game likes me. Another $70 on Wheel of Fortune dollar slots (I did if for an employee who didn’t go and wanted to pool with me). So the other $80 was slowly won from poker. It also included a $60 loss from a hold’em tournament where I went all-in with pocket Queens and got called on by a guy holding A8o and got rivered. M’Fr. I really wish I had spent more time in the tournament (I lasted only and hour, and was hobbled early when my trip 9s got rivered by a straight…double M’Fr!), but I really can’t complain. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-poker-not-bingo-sdmb-league-1st-quarter-2008/432135/53 "2008-02-26T01:50:52Z")
Congrats, Yeti. I had an interesting hand in a sit-and-go this past weekend. I limped in with 10-9. Three callers. The flop was 10-9-9. In an effort to expand my strategic repertoire, I checked. One bet, two folds, and I call. The turn was a 7; check, bet, call. The river was another 10. Check, bet, raise. Can’t remember if he called or not. I did a few slow plays that worked out very well for me (gotta have the cards, first). Won the tournament. But has anyone seen that before; trip-nines, and I could only use two of them because of higher trips? Strange way to make a full house. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-poker-not-bingo-sdmb-league-1st-quarter-2008/432135/54 "2008-02-29T04:19:39Z")
Results for tonight: 1 **Oslo** 2 root 3 kyy 4 ast 5 duke 6 dag 7 missy Another epic battle, enjoyed by all. Except, perhaps, Missy, who got some well-deserved comeuppance. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-poker-not-bingo-sdmb-league-1st-quarter-2008/432135/55 "2008-03-01T01:42:58Z")
The standings: 1 Robot Arm 67.1 2 Oslo Ostragoth 64.6 3 Miss Take 62.5 4 Kyyrewyyoae 62.5 5 Yeticus Rex 60.1 6 Dag Otto 51.9 7 Asterion 50.8 8 Duke of Rat 44.4 Getting tight at the top. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-poker-not-bingo-sdmb-league-1st-quarter-2008/432135/56 "2008-03-07T01:10:25Z")
I’m in third? Well _THAT_ sucks monkey nuts. Oslo cheats. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-poker-not-bingo-sdmb-league-1st-quarter-2008/432135/57 "2008-03-07T06:45:38Z")
and Missy sucks Australian LSD toads. Quad 7’s against a straight? You gotta be kidding me. The standings: 1 Robot Arm 67.1 2 Miss Take 62.9 3 Kyyrewyyoae 62.5 4 Oslo Ostragoth 61.1 5 Yeticus Rex 60.1 6 Asterion 50.7 7 Duke of Rat 50.7 8 Dag Otto 50.1 The battle for last appears pretty tight. Root appears to be resting on his laurels on first. Wins for the quarter: 2: Duke, Missy, Nook, Root and Yeti 1: Dag and Oslo Money finishes for the quarter: 6: Missy 5: Root and Oslo 4: Kyy 3: Ast and Duke 2: Dag and Yeti I created the game for next week, but since CP is not really good at following Daylight Savings Time on and off, we need to watch this and amend as neccessary. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-poker-not-bingo-sdmb-league-1st-quarter-2008/432135/58 "2008-03-07T14:10:59Z")
[QUOTE=Oslo Ostragoth] and Missy sucks Australian LSD toads. Quad 7’s against a straight? You gotta be kidding me. [/QUOTE] Considering how I kept getting slammed by stupid straights… But the quads were beautiful. _sniff_ ---
**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:** [March 10, 2008, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-poker-not-bingo-sdmb-league-1st-quarter-2008/432135/59 "2008-03-10T19:25:53Z")
Still have Thursdays at 7pm at the baseball practice…maybe when the kids have games on other nights after next week, I might be able to have that night freed up again… ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-poker-not-bingo-sdmb-league-1st-quarter-2008/432135/60 "2008-03-12T01:05:37Z")
[QUOTE=Oslo Ostragoth] I created the game for next week, but since CP is not really good at following Daylight Savings Time on and off, we need to watch this and amend as neccessary. [/QUOTE] Yep, the clock is broke. Could someone create a new game for an hour later? I’d prefer not to adjust the game I created, in case they change something between now and then. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-poker-not-bingo-sdmb-league-1st-quarter-2008/432135.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-poker-not-bingo-sdmb-league-1st-quarter-2008/432135.md?page=4)