I think you assumed everyone would know what you meant. I’d never heard of it, but luckily had time to google it. Listened to an operatic piece, found another version, listened to that, and it’s safe to say I’ve never heard it before. Not even at a hoity-toity college.
Well, deciding how many cards to DRAW is a huge decision, and takes a lot of skill. As well as reading the other players.
Now, I could see an argument being made for 5 card STUD, where you just live with the cards you were dealt. But even then, trying to figure out what the other players have, and deciding when to fold vs bet? Those are decisions way out of my skill set.
eta: Those aren’t out of Carl’s skill set. He wins most of the stud games in our poker posse. That’s why it’s Dealer’s Choice and we choose other games like Hold 'Em. So we have a chance against Carl.
Villain has a strong poker hand. He takes the deeds to the ranch out of his inner pocket, and lays it on the table. He demands that Hero make a bet of equal value.
See, that’s that part about poker I never understood: what keeps someone from just raising the ante until no one can match them. Now games where the players start by buying an equal amount of chips and when you’re out you’re out, that I can understand. Or if someone doesn’t have enough chips left to see the bet, table rules allow them to put something up as collateral. But not just outbidding everyone at the table.
Knowing how many to draw is a very basic part of the game and not that difficult.
Betting strategy is definitely a big part of the game. Big banks can muscle out little banks. Any local game can set their own rules but usually you can only bet what’s on the table in front of you so everyone knows what you can bet. If someone runs out of money and more than one person is in then the pot is split. You don’t automatically lose because you ran out of chips but you can’t win more than you bet.
I don’t think I’ve ever played poker at a table that didn’t have bet limits. For instance, for our Hold 'Em games: “Okay, you can’t raise more than $10 at a time, except on the last bet, then it’s $50.”
We made that rule after one guy built up a big pile of chips, and could win almost any hand by betting over $100 and nobody could or would call him.
On any of the poker sites I’ve played (Texas Hold 'Em), the term ‘All In’ is used where you have bet all your chips on a hand. As someone else has said, you can’t win anything more than your ‘all in’ value from any one other player (but there could be multiple other players you can win this amount from each time), but if they keep betting, you are still in the hand until the cards are shown.
Table maximums that limit the amount of buy-in. People who can only afford $300 to play with get to play against other people of similar wealth. Millionaires get to play against other millionaires at a different table. A millionaire can play on the $300 table if he wants, but he is limited to $300, just like everyone else.
Table stakes. At the start of a hand, each player puts all his chips on the table in front of him. That is the maximum he can bet. He can’t increase his stack in the middle of a hand by buying more chips, or by betting the deeds to the ranch.
The all-in rule. If villain bets $1000 in chips, and hero only has $75, then hero can bet all his remaining chips. If hero wins, he gets $75 from all other players in the hand. The rest of the pot goes to the second-best hand. You can’t win just by betting more than the other player has. A player doesn’t have to fold if he can’t match the bet.
Then you aren’t playing poker. Bullying your opponents with large bets is simply one of many tactics that poker players use. It works, for a while. Villain can build up a large stack this way. But then someone with a better hand calls him, and he loses half his stack.
When you change the rules to prevent this, it becomes an entirely different game , and a lot less interesting.
Jeez. Poker seems really complicated. I think I’ll stick to horse racing, where all I have to do is understand a whole lot of past performances, speed figures, classes, and conditions. So much easier.
Go to the casinos and tell them it’s not poker. There have always been limit and no limit tables that are clearly marked. You can still use an aggressive betting strategy on limit tables. In fact it often works better there.
it should be noted that Phoenix Jones, the leader of this “super team” was later found out to be an actual “supervillain” and criminal.
ComicTropes on youtube was a member and did a video detailing the experience. He said he got into one altercation when the group was acting as “security” during a protest. (IIRC it was after everyone was done for the night and going their separate ways, some drunks hassled him and he punched one in the chest and asked them “are we done here” and they backed off.)
Stun guns and tasers are not knockout machines. They will make you feel really bad for a little while but Hollywood makes it seem like they are the same as being injected with heavy duty anesthesia.
My son works in a prison. Part of his training involved getting sprayed with “mace” and then trying to continue working. He also got tazed. He said if he had to go for seconds, he’d choose tazing over mace.
No, by a couple of cop “friends” who thought I ought to know what I was talking about before I shot off my mouth on things. It was consensual. And educational. A number of us got maced. I was the only volunteer to be tazed.
