# Poker on the Appalachian Trail - Q3 2009 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 3, 2009, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poker-on-the-appalachian-trail-q3-2009/501756 "2009-07-03T00:00:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [July 3, 2009, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poker-on-the-appalachian-trail-q3-2009/501756/1 "2009-07-03T00:00:15Z")
I’m back, let the fleecing begin. [Prevous thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=512773). ---
**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:** [July 3, 2009, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poker-on-the-appalachian-trail-q3-2009/501756/2 "2009-07-03T01:39:24Z")
Will do! ---
**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:** [July 3, 2009, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poker-on-the-appalachian-trail-q3-2009/501756/3 "2009-07-03T03:02:30Z")
Tonight’s results: 1. Me 2. Yeti 3. Oslo 4. Dag I’m as surprised as anyone. ---
**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:** [July 3, 2009, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poker-on-the-appalachian-trail-q3-2009/501756/4 "2009-07-03T03:09:13Z")
Well, color me surprised. ---
**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:** [July 3, 2009, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poker-on-the-appalachian-trail-q3-2009/501756/5 "2009-07-03T04:59:00Z")
The pictures from the WSOP Dopefest a few years ago are [here](http://knowholdem.blogspot.com/). ---
**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:** [July 3, 2009, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poker-on-the-appalachian-trail-q3-2009/501756/6 "2009-07-03T21:10:06Z")
See [this post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11304999&postcount=50) to read about my late-night inconvenience. A few hours earlier and I would have had the best excuse ever for missing the game. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2009, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poker-on-the-appalachian-trail-q3-2009/501756/7 "2009-07-06T01:06:46Z")
Sorry, guys. I was at the cabin. Sitting on the deck. Drinking wine. 🙂 ---
**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:** [July 6, 2009, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poker-on-the-appalachian-trail-q3-2009/501756/8 "2009-07-06T04:25:31Z")
BTW, Crazy strikes again. The Saturday evening freeroll is now pot limit Razz, with 8-minute levels, paying only the top 48. Still over 3000 entrants, though. I busted out with a 7-high, thinking my opponent had at least an 8-high, when he apparently had a better 7-high. Anybody play these games? I had of couple of great starting hands, like A24, but a second 2 is useless, right? ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2009, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poker-on-the-appalachian-trail-q3-2009/501756/9 "2009-07-06T11:17:37Z")
I saw the thread title and thought of Mark Sanford. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2009, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poker-on-the-appalachian-trail-q3-2009/501756/10 "2009-07-06T13:31:23Z")
We start a new thread every three months and give it a title based on the catch phrase of the moment. In the future, politicians will plan their press releases around our news cycle. Anything embarassing that they want to bury will come out early in the quarter, in the hopes that they’ll be forgotten or upstaged by the time we start the next thread. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2009, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poker-on-the-appalachian-trail-q3-2009/501756/11 "2009-07-10T01:04:57Z")
I’ll probably be botting the start of the game tonight. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2009, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poker-on-the-appalachian-trail-q3-2009/501756/12 "2009-07-10T03:11:30Z")
Gather around, children. Let me tell you a story of a _sad_ poker game. See, it started one balmy summer evening. **Missy** , after missing a week, was excited to play poker with the guys as she had missed them. When she logged on she saw that **Yeti** and **Dag** were registered, but that was it. Kind of sad that it would be a small game, she still dug in her cyber pockets for a shiny dime and a slightly banged up penny. A few minutes before the game she saw that **Oslo** registered too - goodie! I mean it would have been nice if others had appeared, but she was content. Then the game started. Hmm, **Dag** and **Yeti** were bots. Now, she read the thread and _knew_ **Dag** would be botting, but didn’t know **Yeti** was all shiny metal clad. **Oslo** and **Missy** blinded the bots quietly. Seriously, the chat room was open but no one was talking. **Missy** managed a few swipes at **Oslo** and the bots were down to about 800 chiparoonies. [cue music: the song when the bad guy enters the room] **Yeti** , after sating himself with dinner, decided to show up. **Oslo** , being the nice guy he is, proffered **Yeti** **Dag** ’s blinds. **Missy** agreed. **Yeti** decided, with full stomach, to run the f\*$% out of the table, leaving poor **Missy** and poor **Oslo** grasping their remaining chips like an orphan clutches her tattered woolen blanket in a blizzard. Eventually, **Dag** was blinded out with nary a whimper. Okay, he did manage an all in win against **Missy** for like 20 chips, but whatevs. **Yeti** put him out of his misery. **Missy** was down, but she was not out. She has lost a few damn good hands against **Oslo** - he flopped a flush while she was giggedy-ing over trips. But she clawed her way out. **BAM!** She slayed the mighty **Yeti** **Oslo** , with less than 600 chips against **Missy** ’s 5400 chips did not stand a chance. He did manage a hand or two, but he was not match for the **Mighty Missy**. Now, children, do you know the moral of the story? IF MORE OF YOU DAMNED PLAYERS WOULD SHOW UP IT WOULDN’T BE A BLIND DOWN / MISSY RUN!!! Now go to bed, my precious ones. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2009, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poker-on-the-appalachian-trail-q3-2009/501756/13 "2009-07-10T04:34:02Z")
Yeah, sorry I couldn’t make it tonight. The fleet’s in. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2009, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poker-on-the-appalachian-trail-q3-2009/501756/14 "2009-07-10T05:26:28Z")
Oh hush. You got my dime. ---
**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:** [July 10, 2009, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poker-on-the-appalachian-trail-q3-2009/501756/15 "2009-07-10T17:31:49Z")
I was feeling pretty smug when I took my 800 remaining chips and became the leader with 3000, but when I put **Missy** all-in with Aces and Tens vs. my Aces and Nines, I felt impaled by a 25’ lance. Mortally wounded, I threw the rest of my chips into the next hand with A2s, only to feel the lance pushed in the rest of the way and hung up like some boyar. **Oslo** bore witness to this execution, before he too received the same treatment from **Missy the Impaler**. ---
**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:** [July 11, 2009, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poker-on-the-appalachian-trail-q3-2009/501756/16 "2009-07-11T02:27:08Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Yeah, sorry I couldn’t make it tonight. The fleet’s in. :eek: ---
**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:** [July 13, 2009, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poker-on-the-appalachian-trail-q3-2009/501756/17 "2009-07-13T05:16:55Z")
> [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](#): > > :eek: Yeah, some of my shipmates were in town for a tall ships festival, so I went to visit and help out. I forgot to take sunscreen on Thursday; spent all day giving deck tours and got absolutely scorched. Friday was more tours and then drinking with some of the crew 'til the bar closed. (The band dedicated [this song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPJD3qcIL7s) to our ship.) It took all day Saturday, and then some, to recover. I don’t know why I try to keep up with 25-year-olds; I didn’t even do that stuff when I was 25. I’ll be back. ---
**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:** [July 14, 2009, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poker-on-the-appalachian-trail-q3-2009/501756/18 "2009-07-14T05:55:36Z")
Great song and video. The flute player is amazing. Recover well, my friend. ---
**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:** [July 17, 2009, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poker-on-the-appalachian-trail-q3-2009/501756/19 "2009-07-17T01:09:13Z")
Umm, no game set up for tonight? ---
**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:** [July 17, 2009, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poker-on-the-appalachian-trail-q3-2009/501756/20 "2009-07-17T01:43:11Z")
Doesn’t look like it. ☹ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poker-on-the-appalachian-trail-q3-2009/501756.md?page=2)