# Who Doesn't Like Pie n Chips? - SDMB Poketroplis 3rd Quarter, 2006

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-like-pie-n-chips-sdmb-poketroplis-3rd-quarter-2006/363275>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 5, 2006, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-like-pie-n-chips-sdmb-poketroplis-3rd-quarter-2006/363275 "2006-07-05T22:44:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**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:** [August 3, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-like-pie-n-chips-sdmb-poketroplis-3rd-quarter-2006/363275/61 "2006-08-03T19:14:47Z")

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Another Thursday, another chance to curse your fellow dopers for sucking out on the river!

Time to start bugging Allen or his replacement.

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**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:** [August 3, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-like-pie-n-chips-sdmb-poketroplis-3rd-quarter-2006/363275/62 "2006-08-03T19:15:56Z")

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I paged Paula previously.

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**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:** [August 3, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-like-pie-n-chips-sdmb-poketroplis-3rd-quarter-2006/363275/63 "2006-08-03T19:21:46Z")

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“Paula” is the chatty customer service bot:

_Customer Support: Welcome to Online Poker Support. My name is Paula. How may I help you?  
MostlyDead: I play a private tournament on Thursday nights, 10pm EST (“SDMB Private”), and just wanted to make sure it gets listed  
Customer Support: Our technical department was notified this morning that the tournament should be showing on the schedule… You should be able to see it on the Tournaments section, if you don’t see it please log out and log back in, if you still dont see it please let me know… i’ll hold  
MostlyDead: Logged out and back in, and it does not appear.  
Customer Support: ok, please hold one moment  
Customer Support: Thank you for holding… Our tech department is taking care of it right now… you should be able to see it in a few moments… Please let us know if you still dont see it after 10 minutes  
Customer Support: Is there something more that I can help you with at this time?  
MostlyDead: no, thank you_

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**Author:** ![Kyyrewyyoae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Kyyrewyyoae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyyrewyyoae)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-like-pie-n-chips-sdmb-poketroplis-3rd-quarter-2006/363275/64 "2006-08-03T20:15:15Z")

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Paula does good work. It’s up.

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**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:** [August 3, 2006, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-like-pie-n-chips-sdmb-poketroplis-3rd-quarter-2006/363275/65 "2006-08-03T20:38:15Z")

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[QUOTE=Kyyrewyyoae]  
Paula does good work. It’s up.  
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Not really. I had to bug Allen at about ten after, ratting out Paula for lying to me.

But yes, game is up!

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**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:** [August 3, 2006, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-like-pie-n-chips-sdmb-poketroplis-3rd-quarter-2006/363275/66 "2006-08-03T20:43:29Z")

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Log out and log back in.  
This is what you get when you buy pokerroom software out of the back of a white van.

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**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-like-pie-n-chips-sdmb-poketroplis-3rd-quarter-2006/363275/67 "2006-08-03T20:43:52Z")

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I’m going to join you guys. I sent an email to Aholibah. If anyone else can give me the tournament info, I’d appreciate it. I think my email is in my profile. If not, I’ll update it.

Fresh meat!

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**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:** [August 3, 2006, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-like-pie-n-chips-sdmb-poketroplis-3rd-quarter-2006/363275/68 "2006-08-03T21:41:24Z")

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She’s still in Vegas. Hope she can get you signed up, are you funded?

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**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-like-pie-n-chips-sdmb-poketroplis-3rd-quarter-2006/363275/69 "2006-08-03T21:49:55Z")

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Yep. What is the buy-in? It is a tournament, yes?

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**Author:** ![Kyyrewyyoae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Kyyrewyyoae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyyrewyyoae)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-like-pie-n-chips-sdmb-poketroplis-3rd-quarter-2006/363275/70 "2006-08-03T21:57:58Z")

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Buy-In is $.60. We’re high rollers.

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**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-like-pie-n-chips-sdmb-poketroplis-3rd-quarter-2006/363275/71 "2006-08-03T21:59:49Z")

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'scuse me while I knock off the kids piggy bank…

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**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:** [August 3, 2006, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-like-pie-n-chips-sdmb-poketroplis-3rd-quarter-2006/363275/72 "2006-08-03T22:57:42Z")

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[QUOTE=Kyyrewyyoae]  
Buy-In is $.60. We’re high rollers.  
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Of which 50 cents goes straight into the PT coffers. They are sipping Mai Tai’s on a beach somewhere with that 500% rake.

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**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-like-pie-n-chips-sdmb-poketroplis-3rd-quarter-2006/363275/73 "2006-08-04T01:46:19Z")

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I don’t think I am going to get in. Does anyone know the secret password?

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**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:** [August 4, 2006, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-like-pie-n-chips-sdmb-poketroplis-3rd-quarter-2006/363275/74 "2006-08-04T01:53:32Z")

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[QUOTE=Lamar Mundane]  
I don’t think I am going to get in. Does anyone know the secret password?  
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Probably too late, but for next week, post us your Pokertropolis ID #, and any of us can go into the customer service chat as active members in the private tourney, and request that you be added to the access list.

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**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:** [August 4, 2006, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-like-pie-n-chips-sdmb-poketroplis-3rd-quarter-2006/363275/75 "2006-08-04T04:02:14Z")

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Tonight’s Results:

1. Nanook the Ice Cold Killer
2. Only Mostly Dead…_BRAINS!!!_ (Nanook)
3. Duck treading water (Nanook)
4. Oslo the Black (OMD)
5. Robot Arm, the player who takes a licking and keeps on ticking (OMD)
6. Nesta the Not-so-nice (Nanook)
7. Lighting Tool, ready to glow brighter next week (Nanook)
8. Yetibot (Nesta)
9. GOBot (OMD)
10. MissTake, not missing the top ten (Nesta)
11. Asterion, the good old fashioned lover boy (OMD)
12. Misnomer, we hardly knew ye (Nanook)
13. Dag Otto, dagnabit! (OMD)
14. Kyyrewyyoae, the Satellite of Love awaits (Nanook)

So if the chat log and combined memories of OMD and Nanook serve, that’s a frosty cool six pack of Kills, brought to you by Michelob Amber Bock, for Nanook. A fighting five for OMD, and a sneaky two kills going to Nesta.

Good game all, and I can’t wait for next week!

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**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:** [August 4, 2006, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-like-pie-n-chips-sdmb-poketroplis-3rd-quarter-2006/363275/76 "2006-08-04T04:23:56Z")

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[QUOTE=Only Mostly Dead]  
5. Robot Arm, the player who takes a licking and keeps on ticking (OMD)  
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Thanks, but I feel like I’m one step above being a bot these days. The smartest play I made all night was folding KJ-suited before the flop. It’s worth pointing out that I have no kills for the entire quarter so far, and I don’t know how much longer I can keep blaming it on the cards.

Not to be too much of an attention whore here, but what the hell am I doing wrong?

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**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:** [August 4, 2006, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-like-pie-n-chips-sdmb-poketroplis-3rd-quarter-2006/363275/77 "2006-08-04T04:39:13Z")

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[QUOTE=Robot Arm]

Not to be too much of an attention whore here, but what the hell am I doing wrong?  
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Don’t worry about it. Some MF’r went all in on a draw (and a weak draw at that) to kill me tonight.

What can you do?

Seriously, other than getting great pocket cards, the key to this game is understanding pot odds. Unlike a limit game, you can control the pot odds in a NL game. Of course, it helps to get decent cards once in a while. Sometimes, they never come.

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**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:** [August 4, 2006, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-like-pie-n-chips-sdmb-poketroplis-3rd-quarter-2006/363275/78 "2006-08-04T13:02:36Z")

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[QUOTE=Dag Otto]  
Don’t worry about it. Some MF’r went all in on a draw (and a weak draw at that) to kill me tonight.

What can you do?  
[/QUOTE]

It’s so rare that I’ve done things worthy of people calling me a MF’r! I’m so proud. 😉

(You just got on the bad side of a guy hitting his cards and taking stupid chances to see it happen. I wasn’t playing _good_ poker on that hand.)

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**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:** [August 4, 2006, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-like-pie-n-chips-sdmb-poketroplis-3rd-quarter-2006/363275/79 "2006-08-04T13:22:28Z")

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[QUOTE=Only Mostly Dead]  
Another Thursday, another chance to curse your fellow dopers for sucking out on the river!

[/QUOTE]

Words to live by, MF’r!

When I went out, I had KJ. Got the QT on the flop (IIRC). Stuck enough chips out there begging for a 9 or an A, sucked out an A on the river, thought I had it made. But nooooo. Nook out-sucked me for a friggen boat.

And **RA** , don’t sweat it too much. I had the most wins and the most kills last Q and still finished at the bottom of the pack.

Some days you’re the Duke, some days the Duck.

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**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:** [August 4, 2006, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-doesnt-like-pie-n-chips-sdmb-poketroplis-3rd-quarter-2006/363275/80 "2006-08-04T13:33:46Z")

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[QUOTE=Dag Otto]  
Don’t worry about it. Some MF’r went all in on a draw (and a weak draw at that) to kill me tonight.  
[/QUOTE]  
I’m already worried about it, and it ain’t just one night.

I’m very competitive. It’s not that I expect to make it to the World Series next year or anything, I just hate sucking at something and not knowing why.

Either I’m bad at this game or I’m cursed, and I don’t believe in curses.

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