At least you got titties! 
I’ll take that as a challenge.
Results for 05 Aug
1.Mensa
2. Yeti
3.Crane
4.Oslo
5.Root
6.Duck
7. Missy
8. Dag
9. MentalGuy
10. Ghost
11. Meeko
Great game tonight
Looks like Peeker is chicken…baaaaachk bachk bachk baaaaaaaaaaachk
Standings:
1 peekercpa 85.3
2 notfrommensa 71.6
3 frosted glass 68.3
4 Dag Otto 66.4
5 Gray Ghost 65.6
6 Red Skeezix 65.6
7 Robot Arm 62.6
8 Oslo Ostragoth 59.8
9 Yeticus Rex 58.2
10 Craneop2 57.5
11 MissTake 49.9
12 fubbleskag 48.1
13 Duke of Rat 45.7
14 MentalGuy 42.6
15 Meeko 38.2
not a bit. we had a band parent’s meeting last night. the missus assured me it would last about an hour so we went in the same car. damn thing ran almost three hours long. to top it off they conned me into being a “roadie”.
now i kind of wanted to be a roadie for some rock and roll bands. see the sights, meet interesting folks, listen to music every night and party the night away. but a roadie for a high school marching band is probably more in line with the way my life has turned out.
so yeh, i’ll be schlepping equipment for a bunch of ungrateful smartass 14 - 18 years olds through south texas during the hottest time of year. maybe if i am lucky i might even get a burger and soda (most likely water) on the way to the games. plus i get to wear an authentic roadie outfit. nylon that doesn’t breathe and doesn’t fit and literally traps the heat. black pants and a dark red and black shirt. are these people insane that you would wear that while standing out in the sun when it is 100 degrees? to make it even better you get to pay for the school to run a criminal history check and then pay dues to be a member.
peekkid#3 is a freshman so i will probably spend more time with her. so i guess in the end, net/net i won.
woot the fucking woot.
The Raccoon in last place wonders if this wouldn’t simply be a matter of “Monkey See, Monkey Do.”
I mean, that would work, right?
Then, to do better than the bot, move all in pocket queens or better.
and get your hind handed to you on the guy who got trip fours on the flop. Or, move all in on Big slick, and get beat by an underpair. Or totally dominate a hand, to get rivered. Or… screw it, just look at my hand histories.
You’ll get no sympathy here!
I just need to start drinking earlier. I waited until just before dusk to mow the yard, with cold beers afterward - maybe 1/2 hour before the game started. Moved me up 3 places over my previous sober attempt. So I figure next week I’ll start drinking as soon as I get off work. Yep, that’s the ticket.
How did I get a third place and fall in the standings? Looks like I went from ninth place to tenth. I just don’t get it. Jeez if I had won would I now be eleventh?
July 22:
July 29:
August 5:
Crane, that was my 4th game and I got 2nd last night, therefore my rating jumped up considerably (15 pts) over yours (5 pts) since you’ve played more games than I have so far. Because of that, your 3rd place finish is less weighted than my 2nd place finish.
ok, i’ve got a serious no b.s. question.
i understand how the ratings work, mathematically. but at this point i should just sit out, right?
would there be a way to take the ratings and assign chips based on them and then have an end of quarter tourney to determine the winner?
i mean reward the folks that have done well during the time period but make them earn it at the end.
the bar i play at just gives additional chips to prior weeks finishers and then you go for gold. but just because you honked it all quarter doesn’t mean you don’t have a chance if you get a good run.
I am not privy to oslo’s double secret calculations, but i suspect if I won the remaining weeks of the qtr, that i would not be able to catch you if you were to sit on your lead.
Maybe there should be some sort of incentive to play more weeks so a player cannot sit on his/her lead. A volume discount, so to speak.
I’ve threatened to, when sitting on an early lead, but went ahead and played my lead into the dirt…just like in the game itself.
I wouldn’t care (or wouldn’t have, back when I played regularly) if you sit out, but my objective was to play poker for the quarter and strive to be on top after the end of the quarter.
You could win the first 3 games, wrap up a win for the quarter…and have to sit out for 10 of 13 weeks. That’s no fun.
I got a lot more kick out of winning the weekly tourney than winning the quarter. But then I don’t think I ever won a quarter, either.
Just my $.02
and jeebus i was not suggesting that i sit out just to win the quarter. and based on performance thus far my continued participation merely lengthens my lead, increases the girth of my penis and makes me imminently more attractive to everyone else (except for mensa who is kind of a bitter twisted old soul anyways).
i mean currently the winner gets to do a whole lot of flapdoodle dancing on either mine or meeko’s grave.
i was merely asking if there would be a way to have a quarter end tourney that rewards consistent play while affording everyone a shot.
the bar that i play at gives nightly winners and top ten finishers additional chips when they play for the wsop ticket. so i might be starting of at 8k to 2k but if i get hot i still have a chance.
Maybe if you take the ratings at the end of the quarter and multiply it by the number of games played during that quarter (including bot games), then maybe a truer representation of who has the biggest P-Peen at the end of the quarter.
Oslo, just for shits and giggles, could you modify your spreadsheet to calculate the points for each player at this point (6 games this quarter)?
Example: I played 4 games thus far, so my current points are 4*58.2 = 232.8
This would give the top players incentive to keep playing (Peek = 3*85.2 = 255.6) so they can’t sit on their laurels while some players have ground out 6 games and could match him with a 42.6 rating.
Or, maybe a slightly different system could work. It would definitely kill the sailboat race mentality.
I do not by any means would want to switch to this system midway through the quarter, but it might give insight to who hits it hard weekly and manages to grind out a good standing…kinda like a perseverance title or something.
I’ll give this some thought. However, if someone wanted to come in, place high in three games, and sit out the rest of the quarter, I don’t think they would enjoy our games much. It’s not like there is a cash prize for winning a quarter.
I finished in fifth place last night. I’m still in 7th place in the standings, but my score went down.
I think what you’re describing is kind of reverse engineering the way the spreadsheet already works. Each week, you earn a certain number of points (based on how many players and where you finish), the points are added up, then divided by the number of weeks you’ve played.
So if you’ve played 4 weeks, it’s (points / 4). Multiply that by 4 (as you’re suggesting) and you just get the total number of points.
I’ve occasionally wondered what our scores would be if we just kept a running chip count for each player. It costs a certain amount to buy in, and then chips are paid out to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd (or whatever structure we wanted to set up). For one thing, if you finish out of the money, it doesn’t matter where; last place and 4th are exactly the same.
and i wasn’t trying to stir any crud i was just wondering, is all.
and, of course, i will be back because i play this for fun and the wonderful encouragement that i get from the rest of you folks.
and i kind of like yeti’s thoughts, however …
some time stuff just happens and to get penalized for real life doesn’t seem equitable.
of course, if you are sitting at the final table and the guy next to you has a heart attack or something and is gone for a couple of hours i am sure that there are many that would be sufficiently content to just blind him out.
Poker night everyone. Peeker better show up.
I think I’m going to have to bow out of tonight’s game. We going to be getting “weather” here in the next few hours, and my power seems to go out whenever it it’s worse than a light drizzle.
We’ll see what it’s like at 855.