# March of The Penguins - SDMB Pokertropolis Fourth Quarter, 2005 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 3, 2005, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-penguins-sdmb-pokertropolis-fourth-quarter-2005/324609 "2005-10-03T17:24:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**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:** [October 27, 2005, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-penguins-sdmb-pokertropolis-fourth-quarter-2005/324609/61 "2005-10-27T17:32:49Z")
I have become a hack…thanks for noticing, Mike. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-penguins-sdmb-pokertropolis-fourth-quarter-2005/324609/62 "2005-10-27T17:43:30Z")
> [@Yeticus Rex](#): > > I have become a hack…thanks for noticing, Mike. 😉 Man, I kinda hate kicking a man while he’s that far down… Oh, OK, I don’t really hate it all that much. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![CapnPitt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/edb3f5/32.png) [@CapnPitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CapnPitt)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-penguins-sdmb-pokertropolis-fourth-quarter-2005/324609/63 "2005-10-27T18:11:30Z")
Considering that I just got Civ IV yesterday and was glued to the computer for 7 straight hours last night, I strongly doubt that I’ll be able to pry myself away to play poker tonight. I’ll miss you guys, but I really have to consider the needs of the subjects of Imperial Pittsburgh first. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-penguins-sdmb-pokertropolis-fourth-quarter-2005/324609/64 "2005-10-27T18:48:52Z")
> [@CapnPitt](#): > > Considering that I just got Civ IV yesterday and was glued to the computer for 7 straight hours last night, I strongly doubt that I’ll be able to pry myself away to play poker tonight. I’ll miss you guys, but I really have to consider the needs of the subjects of Imperial Pittsburgh first. 😃 Capn, Yeti is just foundering at sea like so much flotsam. His arse is ready to be boarded! (Don’t know, that doesn’t sound quite right). He’s dead in the water, a ship without a rudder, up the creek without a paddle (do pirates inhabit creeks??) Anyway, it’d be a shame to not shiver his timbers, put him into Davy Jones’ locker, something like that. ---
**Author:** ![CapnPitt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/edb3f5/32.png) [@CapnPitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CapnPitt)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-penguins-sdmb-pokertropolis-fourth-quarter-2005/324609/65 "2005-10-27T20:02:37Z")
> [@Duke of Rat](#): > > Capn, Yeti is just foundering at sea like so much flotsam. His arse is ready to be boarded! (Don’t know, that doesn’t sound quite right). He’s dead in the water, a ship without a rudder, up the creek without a paddle (do pirates inhabit creeks??) > > Anyway, it’d be a shame to not shiver his timbers, put him into Davy Jones’ locker, something like that. Y’know in any other random set of say, 96 hours, I’d make the time to unleash broadside after broadside into **Yeti** ’s matted carcass. However, you just don’t know the obessive/compulsive power that any Sid Meier game holds for me in the first few days (weeks) of a new release. I might pry myself away for a few seconds to check in on you guys in AIM, but I know there’s no way I’ll play poker tonight. And nobody tell **Exploding Kitchen** that I’m playing Civ instead of poker. Her copy of Civ4 doesn’t work :mad: ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-penguins-sdmb-pokertropolis-fourth-quarter-2005/324609/66 "2005-10-27T21:09:25Z")
> [@Gangster Octopus](#): > > Oh you better bring it! Oh, it’s already been brought-it. > [@Duck of Suck](#): > > up the creek without a paddle (do pirates inhabit creeks??) [Francis Marion was the “Swamp Fox”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swamp_Fox), and as far as the the British were concerned, a bit of a pirate. Swamps are close enough to creeks, right? And isn’t a cove basically just a tropical creek? ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-penguins-sdmb-pokertropolis-fourth-quarter-2005/324609/67 "2005-10-27T21:15:26Z")
> [@CapnPitt](#): > > Considering that I just got Civ IV yesterday and was glued to the computer for 7 straight hours last night, I strongly doubt that I’ll be able to pry myself away to play poker tonight. I’ll miss you guys, but I really have to consider the needs of the subjects of Imperial Pittsburgh first. 😃 Is Imperial Pittsburgh prepared for a zombie attack and safe from Tommy Maddox? ---
**Author:** ![Aholibah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Aholibah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aholibah)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-penguins-sdmb-pokertropolis-fourth-quarter-2005/324609/68 "2005-10-27T21:49:07Z")
Lest anyone be concerned, I’ve just contacted customer support at PT and nudged them about getting the game up. It should be there shortly. **Cap** , I’m bitterly disappointed at this evidence of skewed priorities. I expected better from you. How about a little multitasking, eh? In case anyone was waiting with bated breath to hear about my big tourney last Friday, but couldn’t be arsed to log into PP and find out for him or herself, let me say, I bit the big one. Lasted a whole three hands. It was like I heard the starting gun and forgot everything I ever knew about tournament play. Completely, utterly, and totally awful. I’ve only just stopped banging my head against the wall long enough to post the news. Actually, I stopped this morning, and revived myself by winning at PP’s new blackjack tables. Won enough to splurge on a $50+5 NL tournament this afternoon, in which I came in 19th of 300 and made a $72 profit. So that should take care of my poker winning allotment for the day – I’ll be easy pickins for you guys tonight. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-penguins-sdmb-pokertropolis-fourth-quarter-2005/324609/69 "2005-10-27T22:06:36Z")
I’m late to this party… So it’s every Thursday night? At 10 p.m. eastern? Well, I’d like to play, although I’ll probably still be at work at 7:00, more’s the pity. Maybe when it’s not crunch time. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-penguins-sdmb-pokertropolis-fourth-quarter-2005/324609/70 "2005-10-28T04:13:10Z")
Tonight’s Results (10/27/05): 1. Gangster Octopus ($.75) – First Win! 2. Nesta ($.45) 3. MissTake ($.30) 4. Yeti 5. Oslo 6. Elucidator 7. Robot Arm 8. Dag Otto 9. Omnicient – Welcome Back 10. Nanook 11. Kyy 12. asterion 13. Duke 14. Mostly Dead Guy 15. Aholibah and her whip ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-penguins-sdmb-pokertropolis-fourth-quarter-2005/324609/71 "2005-10-28T04:14:52Z")
Current Standings 1 Gangster Octopus 78.2 2 Kyyrewyyoae 74.6 3 Oslo Ostragoth 73.2 4 nesta 68.6 5 Nanook of the North 64.1 6 Duke of Rat 63.6 7 elucidator 60.6 8 Robot Arm 59.8 9 Miss Take 58.1 10 Aholibah 55.1 11 Asterion 55.1 12 Yeticus Rex 51.2 13 Only Mostly Dead 45.4 14 Capn Pitt 36.9 15 Dag Otto 32.1 ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-penguins-sdmb-pokertropolis-fourth-quarter-2005/324609/72 "2005-11-03T04:31:40Z")
Any chance someone could loan me $20 for tomorrow night? I’ve got money coming into NETeller by EFT but I don’t think it’s going to hit in time. I can easily transfer the $20 back to you inside PT or through NETeller, or I could write a check or get a money order made out. With my luck, the transfer will get though Friday. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2005, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-penguins-sdmb-pokertropolis-fourth-quarter-2005/324609/73 "2005-11-03T04:42:17Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > Any chance someone could loan me $20 for tomorrow night? I’ve got money coming into NETeller by EFT but I don’t think it’s going to hit in time. I can easily transfer the $20 back to you inside PT or through NETeller, or I could write a check or get a money order made out. With my luck, the transfer will get though Friday. I can cover you. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2005, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-penguins-sdmb-pokertropolis-fourth-quarter-2005/324609/74 "2005-11-03T04:45:14Z")
> [@Dag Otto](#): > > I can cover you. Make that I have covered you. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-penguins-sdmb-pokertropolis-fourth-quarter-2005/324609/75 "2005-11-03T04:51:38Z")
Wow, that was fast. Thanks a lot. How would you like your money? ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-penguins-sdmb-pokertropolis-fourth-quarter-2005/324609/76 "2005-11-03T16:14:08Z")
Would any of you kind gentlemen or lovely ladies care to perhaps play some poker this evening? I would be delighted to share your company. I’ll try this. I called out the hacks and slackers last week and got my ass handed to me right off the bat. ---
**Author:** ![CapnPitt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/edb3f5/32.png) [@CapnPitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CapnPitt)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-penguins-sdmb-pokertropolis-fourth-quarter-2005/324609/77 "2005-11-03T16:24:43Z")
Pitt plays Louisville in football tonight, so I’ll be watching the game early on. My plan is to \*bot it and come in late. In fact, I think I could only rise in the rankings if I kept that my permanent strategy. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2005, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-penguins-sdmb-pokertropolis-fourth-quarter-2005/324609/78 "2005-11-03T17:37:56Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > Wow, that was fast. Thanks a lot. How would you like your money? You can just transfer it back when your deposit hits. ---
**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:** [November 3, 2005, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-penguins-sdmb-pokertropolis-fourth-quarter-2005/324609/79 "2005-11-03T22:45:22Z")
I was thinking I might skip tonight, since I feel like I’ve just been sitting in and folding hand after hand for the last three weeks; but my luck seems to be turning. I played the 99-cent tournament last Saturday and at one point I went all-in before the flop and got four-of-a-kind. Finished 4 places out of the money. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-penguins-sdmb-pokertropolis-fourth-quarter-2005/324609/80 "2005-11-03T22:54:32Z")
> [@Robot Arm](#): > > I was thinking I might skip tonight, since I feel like I’ve just been sitting in and folding hand after hand for the last three weeks; but my luck seems to be turning. I played the 99-cent tournament last Saturday and at one point I went all-in before the flop and got four-of-a-kind. Finished 4 places out of the money. Man, you’re doing pretty good! You are firmly in the middle of the pack, a couple of good finishes will move you right on up. I’m going backwards as fast as possible, but they haven’t sucked my spirit dry yet 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-penguins-sdmb-pokertropolis-fourth-quarter-2005/324609.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/march-of-the-penguins-sdmb-pokertropolis-fourth-quarter-2005/324609.md?page=5)