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[Kjartan]

Re: [WILD SPEC] Random ideas

[Twelve Large]

Here's an idea. Everyone should become obssessed with poker.

Drawing dead simply means you have no "outs" in the poker world. "Outs" are cards you think will win you the hand, assuming you're on the draw. If the flop comes 5 6 A and you hold 7 8, and you put your opponent on an Ace, then you would have eight "outs" left in the deck - 4 fours and 4 nines, which would make you a straight. Assuming there were, let's say, 43 cards left in the deck.. 3 on the board 6 in players hands.. You'd be about %20 to catch one of your outs and make your straight. So if you have to put in $20 to make $100, it's probably worth the gamble.

You always wanna leave yourself outs in poker. A situation where you'd have no outs would be if: You have 7c 8c and your opponent has Kc Qc. The flop comes 9c 10d Js. You both have a straight, but his is the best possible straight. And there are no cards that will fall that can win you the hand.

[Twelve Large]

Actually, you wouldn't be drawing dead in that situation I listed , but I'm sure you get the idea. Sorry I was late to chime in, jartan basically covered it.

[Lainlella]

Nah, it's fine. I'm a poker newbie so I figured it was something like that.

Nuremberg also sticks out because those other tables all have poker-related names or something that comes from poker lore, that much I know after some googling and wikipedia overdose. That seems intentional. Maybe we should keep an eye on the Nuremberg table? If Kjartan's theory on Maurice is right, maybe Maurice'll make an appearance.

[CombatEagle]

The week one trail seems to be a Tombstone Hol 'Em hand...

Spade, Heart, Club for "Opening Shots" (Flop?)

Club for "Kids These Days" (Turn?)

Club and Face of Club for "Looking for the Gun" (Pocket?)

Waiting for the river card, indicated by the coffee mug stain over the river.

[Flaag]

Nice work, i didnt even think of that! Where does the Face of club come from though? and does a monolith count as a pointy gravestone (spade) or a statue (clubs)

Using death dates of people mention when scrolling over gravestones gives... (assuming the dealer isnt one of the people)

Provides a problem, cant use the end of the year, due to them all being 2005, so possibly using end of day of month as the value:

Opening shots:
Spade: Robert: Sept 21= Ace of Spades?
Heart:none
Club:Paco: Sept 20th= 10 of clubs?

Kids these days:
Club:Hikerd00d: Sept 21= Ace of clubs (or possible jack as two people are said to have died due to cell phone network)?

Looking for the gun:
Club: Unknown (possibly the person mentioned in the text on maurice's profile)
Club/spade: Victor (Corazon's boyfriend): date of death unknown.

[CombatEagle]

The Face of Club is the little crypt with the crucifix on top.

[Flaag]

[DeformedUncleLouie]

Looks like we need another card. Ruben jumps out at me, but what about thedealer? He's dead and stuff.

[Shad0]

Re: [WILD SPEC] Random ideas

[Lyria]

Does this count? "rojas" (as in Benito Rojas) means "red"

[Dorkmaster]

Isn't "rojo" red, not rojas? (I know this cuz I thought the same thing too, before hitting my own head with my own hand, then cursing my own self out. )

[Omnie]

Rojo is red, and rojas would be the plural feminine version. As in the example, "oh my, look at those two queens which are rojas!"

[cpip]

Disconnected from above thread, but suited for Random Spec: Maurice Pikar's history.

A non-practicing Jew, he served in the Army with Lucky. When they liberated Buchenwald, he was shocked and appalled, and appointed himself as the executioner. Hence why his prisoners kept dying.

After the war, Pikar was one of the Nazi-chasers (like the recently-deceased Simon Weisenthal, albeit a more violent one).

Why he wants the gun, however, I can't speculate, unless the gun possesses some sort of supernatural power.

[Phaedra]