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"The game we are playing we know as 'black jack', it bears no resemblance to the American game 'blackjack'.

The aim of the game is to get rid of your cards.
You remove one black jack from the deck, it plays no part in the game.
You start with 7 cards
Take 4 cards from the deck and lay them face up, these are your start cards, you then lay either the same suit or the same number on one of the start cards. If you have two or three of the same card, you can lay them all down in a single turn, if you cannot lay a card, you pick up from the face down deck.

If a player lays a king, the other player has to pick up 3 cards, a queen 2, a jack 1, an ace 4 and the 'black jack' 5. If the 2nd player lays a king on top of the 1st players card, then the 1st player has to pick up double the amount, in the case of a king, 6 cards, if the 1st player then lays yet another king, then the 2nd player would have to pick up 9 cards and so on."

@Phooz

Shoes are not used in poker, only blackjack. Obviously, there are hundreds of variations of poker, and one could pretty much make one up on the fly, so I'm sure it has happened, but in general, poker is always played with one, untampered, fresh deck of cards. I believe for high-stake games like this, they probably unwrap a new deck before each game. This is likely a production error, somehow 2 queens have snuck in in the factory somehow. Seeing as they were literally together in the deck, they probably were stuck and had not been shuffled apart yet.

Yeah, I know that, but trance was suggesting you can have multiple decks in a hand (like in blackjack), which is pretty much unheard of in most poker games.

Um, does no one understand that poker and blackjack are played with multiple decks in the shoe?

It also needs to be factored in the nature of the game.

A coin flip isn't a) very entertaining nor b) skill based.

That's why games at casinos like poker and blackjack are quite popular, because they have either skill or the illusion of skill involved while also being entertaining.

That's how you get someone to agree to a bet like this - added value of the event itself.

Thank you, fellow meatbag. I shall spend them wisely on something that is not hookers and blackjack. Maybe a hooker, but definatly not blackjack...

"Holy blackjack, Batman!! It's staged!"

An interesting thing about driving in Vietnam is that drivers on the other side of the street will warn you if there's a cop ahead.

If the cop is far up ahead, the other driver will use a finger to point back over his shoulder.

If you are quickly approaching the cop, they will point all four fingers down (sort of like a "hit" in blackjack).

This is more true of long straightaways in less dense areas with less traffic than the crowded city streets you see depicted here.

It is just really neat to see every stranger who's passing you give you that friendly warning. Then once you've passed the cop, you take your turn to start warning everyone. In America most people not only won't warn you, but probably hope for you to get pulled over.

>> ^MrFisk:

Never buy an American hooker.


Ha! That reminds me of a story from the Navy days... although I did change the names. Out of habit, I guess?

We were down in Curacao (beautiful place!) for a couple of days. We had a great time. One of the days, around 6 of us spent most of the day at the blackjack table with the casino politely paying us to continue to play. Of course they were not so happy with us. After having them pay us for 6 to 8 hours, we called it quits. I was ready to go to bed after smoking and drinking all day long, but a couple guys decided to head out. In the morning, we heard they stopped off at the whorehouse. (Prostitution is legal in Curacao.) After finding this out, my good buddy Sam, who didn't go out after the casino either, looked at Danny, "Tell me that you didn't buy a woman last night!" Danny looked up with pained expression of a hangover doing its work, "No. No, I didn't buy a woman last night... but I rented two!"

Thanks, mate. No hookers or blackjack though.

In reply to this comment by Fusionaut:
huzzah!

It's true, taking the toy away won't stop kids from wanting Mc'Ds but it may cause McDs to think about a few more healthier choices to the kid's menu so they can get the toys back into play!

These sorts of items are already on their menu. But come on - this is a fast food restaurant. By definition, fast food is crap for the system. In order to make food that passes health inspections you have to process the bejeezus out of it. The dream of restaurants that serve "fresh from the garden" healthy food is unrealistic given our regulatory requirements, legal environment, and population logistics. If you want healthy food, then don't freaking eat at a fast food joint. Duh.

But that's all beside the point. It isn't the government's job to tell people what to eat, or force restaurants to adhere to some Orwellian/Huxleyan vision of centrally controlled food intake. It is not your right, or the government's right to rig the game so as to coerce people into behaving in ways that you approve. I eat like a bird, and only eat out once a month or so. That's a personal choice. I'll make it on my own, thank you kindly. If I want my kid to eat right, then I'll feed them healthy food myself and I don't need some city or agency blackjacking restaurants to do it for me.

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My daddy told me, lookin back,
The best friend you'll have is a railroad track
So when I was 13 said, I'm rollin' my own
And I'm leavin' Missouri and I'm never comin' home

And I'm lost
And I'm lost
I'm lost at the bottom of the world
I'm handcuffed to the bishop and the barbershop liar
I'm lost at the bottom of the world.

Satchel Puddin' and Lord God Mose
Sitting by the fire with a busted nose
That fresh egg yeller is too damn rare
But the white part is perfect for slickin' down your hair

And I'm lost
And I'm lost
I'm lost at the bottom of the world
I'm handcuffed to the bishop and the barbershop liar
I'm lost at the bottom of the world.

Blackjack Ruby and Nimrod Cain
The moon's the color of a coffee stain
jesse Frank and Birdy Joe Hoaks
But who is the king of all these folks?

And I'm lost
And I'm lost
I'm lost at the bottom of the world
I'm handcuffed to the bishop and the barbershop liar
I'm lost at the bottom of the world.

Well I dined last night with Scarface Ron
On Telapia fish cakes and fried black swan
Razorweed onion and peacock squirrel
And I dreamed all night about a beautiful girl

And I'm lost
And I'm lost
I'm lost at the bottom of the world
I'm handcuffed to the bishop and the barbershop liar
I'm lost at the bottom of the world.

Well God's green hair is where I slept last
He balanced a diamond on a blade of grass
Now I woke me up with a cardinal bird
And when I wanna talk
He hangs on every word

And I'm lost
And I'm lost
I'm lost at the bottom of the world
I'm handcuffed to the bishop and the barbershop liar
I'm lost at the bottom of the world

>> ^xxovercastxx:

Most successful MMOs aren't designed to be fun or have interesting gameplay; they're just meant to be addictive. If you specifically study their reward and economic mechanics you'll find them incredibly similar to slot machines, poker and blackjack: large investments yielding rare rewards which really only serve to encourage more investment.


And it works!!

>> ^xxovercastxx:

Most successful MMOs aren't designed to be fun or have interesting gameplay; they're just meant to be addictive. If you specifically study their reward and economic mechanics you'll find them incredibly similar to slot machines, poker and blackjack: large investments yielding rare rewards which really only serve to encourage more investment.


Thing is Blizz'es games have been like that from Diablo 1. Compare Diablo vs Baldur's Gate and you'll see Diablo takes the most rewarding elements of an RPG like Baldur's Gate and focuses heavily on them. You kill a monster and just about any type of loot drops, Baldur's Gate only what the creature was actually carrying and using against you drops (to me this makes the game's environment seem more immersive and real, but Blizz'es method sells more copies). Diablo you level like mad, Baldur's Gate you only go up to about level 8 by the end of the game, etc etc. They built their success by appealing to the most rewarding elements of a game and upping that element greatly.

Now there's hosts of games that do the same thing, but Blizz started that trend, and it was perfect to carry over into an MMO.