# Turn off your \*&$#@\*&! video game and get a reality check. SDMB Poker 1st Qtr 2012 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 6, 2012, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-your-video-game-and-get-a-reality-check-sdmb-poker-1st-qtr-2012/608594 "2012-01-06T04:00:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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 3, 2012, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-your-video-game-and-get-a-reality-check-sdmb-poker-1st-qtr-2012/608594/22 "2012-02-03T02:26:44Z")
Count me out for tonight, guys. I feel like death. Damn cold. ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-your-video-game-and-get-a-reality-check-sdmb-poker-1st-qtr-2012/608594/23 "2012-02-03T04:32:08Z")
Results from tonight’s tourney, after plenty of see-saw action: 12: BobArrgh 11: TexCat 10: Dag 9: Yeti 8: Crane 7: Ast 6: Mensa 5: Mr. Bootis 4: Mental 3: Fubbs 2: Frosty 1: Ghost (aided by a horrendous suck-out on Mental Guy) ---
**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 3, 2012, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-your-video-game-and-get-a-reality-check-sdmb-poker-1st-qtr-2012/608594/24 "2012-02-03T05:36:24Z")
Dag takes a big hit, but remains #1 for the quarter: 1 Dag Otto 78.5 2 MentalGuy 74.2 3 Frosted Glass 72.3 4 Yeticus Rex 66.7 5 Gray Ghost 64.2 6 MrBootis 59.0 7 notfrommensa 52.6 8 asterion 51.9 9 fubbleskag 49.2 10 MissTake 48.9 11 Craneop2 30.7 12 TexCat 16.3 Ast, fubbs, MrBootis, TexCat and Yeti become ranking-eligible with their third games. ---
**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 3, 2012, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-your-video-game-and-get-a-reality-check-sdmb-poker-1st-qtr-2012/608594/25 "2012-02-03T05:48:38Z")
That’s some cold, Missy, if you are missing poker. Hope you feel better soon. You didn’t miss much though - Ast kept yammering on and on about some sort of geology. I didn’t understand most of it. ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-your-video-game-and-get-a-reality-check-sdmb-poker-1st-qtr-2012/608594/26 "2012-02-10T04:29:24Z")
Tonight’s results: 11: Dag 10: Roooooooooot 9: Yeti 8: Boots 7: Missy 6: Mental 5: Meeko 4: Ast 3: Frosty 2: Mensa 1: Ghost, aided by yet more ridiculous draws… ---
**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 10, 2012, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-your-video-game-and-get-a-reality-check-sdmb-poker-1st-qtr-2012/608594/27 "2012-02-10T04:49:16Z")
He’ll always be Rot to me. ---
**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 10, 2012, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-your-video-game-and-get-a-reality-check-sdmb-poker-1st-qtr-2012/608594/28 "2012-02-10T05:16:06Z")
Interesting distributions in the standings: 1 Frosted Glass 72.75 2 Dag Otto 72.66 3 Gray Ghost 72.0 4 MentalGuy 71.2 5 notfrommensa 60.1 6 Yeticus Rex 59.2 7 Meeko 58.9 8 asterion 56.1 9 MrBootis 53.7 10 fubbleskag 49.2 11 Roooooot 47.6 12 MissTake 47.5 13 Craneop2 30.7 14 TexCat 16.3 Quite the battle for first, and another for fifth through twelfth. Next week will start the second half of the quarter, so put on your war faces. You shoulda gone underground a couple of weeks ago, Dag. 😛 Disconnect the phone, cancel cable, forward mail to a box in the middle of the desert, etc. ---
**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 10, 2012, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-your-video-game-and-get-a-reality-check-sdmb-poker-1st-qtr-2012/608594/29 "2012-02-10T05:56:36Z")
Pshaw. I’ve won these before, I’ll win them again. ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-your-video-game-and-get-a-reality-check-sdmb-poker-1st-qtr-2012/608594/30 "2012-02-17T04:24:31Z")
Results from tonight’s tournament: 12: Maserschmidt 11: Ast 10: Mental 9: Frosty 8: Meeko 7: Mensa 6: Fubbs 5: Missy 4: Yeti 3: BobArrgh 2: Boots 1: Ghost, who’s running good, at least on Thursday nights. ---
**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 17, 2012, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-your-video-game-and-get-a-reality-check-sdmb-poker-1st-qtr-2012/608594/31 "2012-02-17T05:18:10Z")
Gray is killing February, with three wins in three games: 1 Gray Ghost 76.7 2 Dag Otto 72.7 3 Frosted Glass 68.9 4 MentalGuy 66.9 5 MrBootis 62.8 6 Yeticus Rex 61.5 7 BobArrgh 59.7 8 notfrommensa 58.4 9 Meeko 54.5 10 fubbleskag 50.4 11 MissTake 50.2 12 asterion 49.9 13 Roooooot 47.6 14 Craneop2 30.7 15 TexCat 16.3 ---
**Author:** ![MentalGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@MentalGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MentalGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-your-video-game-and-get-a-reality-check-sdmb-poker-1st-qtr-2012/608594/32 "2012-02-24T04:33:22Z")
And the results for February 23, 2012: 1. MentalGuy 2. Bootis 3. GrayGhost 4. FrostedGlass 5. CraneOp 6. Dag Otto 7. MissTake 8. Meeko 9. fubbleskag 10. Mensa And the updated standings, provided by Oslo Ostragoth: 1 Gray Ghost 76.2 2 MentalGuy 71.8 3 Dag Otto 69.8 4 Frosted Glass 68.3 5 MrBootis 67.0 6 Yeticus Rex 61.5 7 BobArrgh 59.7 8 notfrommensa 54.1 9 Meeko 50.1 10 asterion 49.9 11 MissTake 48.4 12 Roooooot 47.6 13 fubbleskag 45.2 14 Craneop2 35.4 15 TexCat 16.3 ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-your-video-game-and-get-a-reality-check-sdmb-poker-1st-qtr-2012/608594/33 "2012-02-24T05:02:17Z")
Congrats on the win and overall very good play, Mental. I found the shove, shove, shove tactic very hard to adjust to in-game. Thought I had a better handle on it than I did. And I never did get a handle on how wide you were shoving; nor, obviously, what a good BB defend range should be when I was only getting 1.2 - 1.4 to 1. See y’all next Thursday. ---
**Author:** ![MentalGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@MentalGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MentalGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-your-video-game-and-get-a-reality-check-sdmb-poker-1st-qtr-2012/608594/34 "2012-02-24T22:24:46Z")
> [@Gray\_Ghost](#): > > Congrats on the win and overall very good play, Mental. I found the shove, shove, shove tactic very hard to adjust to in-game. Thought I had a better handle on it than I did. And I never did get a handle on how wide you were shoving; nor, obviously, what a good BB defend range should be when I was only getting 1.2 - 1.4 to 1. > > See y’all next Thursday. Thanks, but I did get lucky too. I don’t necessarily think I made the wrong play when I shoved against your pocket kings, since there had not been enough info in the hand for me to narrow your range much. But I did get lucky and if I had lost that hand I would have been out in 4th (3rd?) place. ---
**Author:** ![GreenHell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ea666f/32.png) [@GreenHell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenHell)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-your-video-game-and-get-a-reality-check-sdmb-poker-1st-qtr-2012/608594/35 "2012-02-29T05:13:07Z")
Could someone tell me what time the tourney starts? Also, are they every Thursday? ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-your-video-game-and-get-a-reality-check-sdmb-poker-1st-qtr-2012/608594/36 "2012-02-29T15:48:43Z")
> [@GreenHell](#): > > Could someone tell me what time the tourney starts? Also, are they every Thursday? 10:05 pm Eastern Time 9:05 pm your time (if you are still in Louisiana) come back and join us, every Thursday. ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-your-video-game-and-get-a-reality-check-sdmb-poker-1st-qtr-2012/608594/37 "2012-03-01T21:47:21Z")
Courtesy bump to alert whomever that our tournament starts in a few hours. Open to all; instructions on how to join are at the top of the thread. Good luck! ---
**Author:** ![MentalGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@MentalGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MentalGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-your-video-game-and-get-a-reality-check-sdmb-poker-1st-qtr-2012/608594/38 "2012-03-02T00:08:34Z")
It looks like I won’t be playing tonight, so I will be unable to approve any last minute additions to the poker club tonight. We welcome you to join us, but if you are not already a member of the club, you will have to wait until next week. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-your-video-game-and-get-a-reality-check-sdmb-poker-1st-qtr-2012/608594/39 "2012-03-02T01:02:29Z")
Hellboy is part of the club! ---
**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 2, 2012, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-your-video-game-and-get-a-reality-check-sdmb-poker-1st-qtr-2012/608594/40 "2012-03-02T01:44:18Z")
Count me out, too. I’ve had a hell of a day and am crashing early. ---
**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 2, 2012, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-your-video-game-and-get-a-reality-check-sdmb-poker-1st-qtr-2012/608594/41 "2012-03-02T04:25:23Z")
Tonight’s Results: 1. Yeti 2. Crane 3. Bootis 4. Meeko 5. Astbot 6. Hellbot 7. NFM 8. Ghost 9. TexCat 10. Root 11. Dag 12. Fubbs [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-your-video-game-and-get-a-reality-check-sdmb-poker-1st-qtr-2012/608594.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-off-your-video-game-and-get-a-reality-check-sdmb-poker-1st-qtr-2012/608594.md?page=3)