now i have to teach myself how to play poker
AnabelVIII
now i have to teach myself how to play poker
now i have to teach myself how to play poker
AnabelVIII
korel you did this
Throck
whoops what did i do
Platinum
I mean, settling down for an in character game of poker is a thing that can happen
AnabelVIII
i, anabel, the player, doesnt actually know anything about poker
Platinum
Learn How to Play Poker!
❝marti❞
Have you ever played Yahtzee?
❝marti❞
Yahtzee is just poker with dice
Shard
Yes. More poker players.
AnabelVIII
anabel is autistic so betting games are basically just people calling out numbers
AnabelVIII
i gain no particular joy from the social interplay etc, but its canon for beckett and in rpg you can bs/narrate that stuff
Ⓓᴀɴ ⓈᴀʀᴛᴏʀɪꙄ
lol you can totally BS the hell out of this
AnabelVIII
i just am frantically trying to get the internet to explain to me how calling works in english - all these websites are doing the hobbyist thing of "our hobby is so easy to learn, first you sit down at your rumpus table and fidget the hobnails, unless you're playing sovcit style in which case, of course, you whamp them.
Ⓓᴀɴ ⓈᴀʀᴛᴏʀɪꙄ
or we can be like "actually the rules of poker in Beckett's world and Dan's world are super different"
Ⓓᴀɴ ⓈᴀʀᴛᴏʀɪꙄ
"call" is when you match the other person's bet but don't raise it, so you both have to show your hands
Shard
Yes, that.
Ⓓᴀɴ ⓈᴀʀᴛᴏʀɪꙄ
it ends the round
Shard
(It is absolutely no surprise that the two players who grew up in Nevada know how poker works.)
AnabelVIII
"play proceeds from the kahuna rightwards windward clockwise, with each player slinging their approved baggage iinto the stew, sometimes called a melange..."
AnabelVIII
im getting it put together well enough to write beckett playing, don't worry
Shard
I mostly learned by watching a lot of poker on the TV.
AnabelVIII
im just very amused at all these "learn to play poker!" sites full of incomprehensible jargon
Shard
World Cup of Poker is actually a weirdly soothing thing to watch late at night.
AnabelVIII
the appeal of poker seems to be the social byplay of bet/raise/bluff/call and that's not something coherent to me because I cannot read facial expressions, only gross body language
AnabelVIII
which poker players specificially repress
Ⓓᴀɴ ⓈᴀʀᴛᴏʀɪꙄ
i feel this way trying to learn how to play gim rummy
AnabelVIII
so for me its just robot people pushing little plastic coins around, plus jargon
Ⓓᴀɴ ⓈᴀʀᴛᴏʀɪꙄ
maybe you'd enjoy blackjack more? it's much less social cues and a lot more math and strategy
AnabelVIII
but i know you can use it in narrative to excellent effect so I'm force-feeding myself enough of the basics to lie creatively
AnabelVIII
i have, in fact, enjoyed blackjack
Ⓓᴀɴ ⓈᴀʀᴛᴏʀɪꙄ
i love me card games but it's the nevadan in me
Shard
Blackjack is mostly math, though.
AnabelVIII
i want to like card games
AnabelVIII
but i like the ones where you are quietly adding the numbers up
AnabelVIII
and casinos/cardroom are sensory overload hell
Ⓓᴀɴ ⓈᴀʀᴛᴏʀɪꙄ
i've actually never played cards at a casino, I always just play it with family on the holidays
Shard
Online poker is more of a thing these days.]
❝marti❞
lol this reminds me of my midwestern ass thinking everyone plays euchre and trying to do a thread premise based on that
❝marti❞
Nope, only people in the midwest play euchre, no one else even knows what you're talking about
❝marti❞
And if you try to explain it over the internet it's just too much
❝marti❞
that's one you have to learn in person
𝔰𝔠𝔥𝔢𝔪𝔬𝔫𝔰
when's there gonna be a game of go fish
Ⓓᴀɴ ⓈᴀʀᴛᴏʀɪꙄ
someone from a different world needs to bring in an absolutely insane Calvinball-style card game
AnabelVIII
Ⓓᴀɴ ⓈᴀʀᴛᴏʀɪꙄ
anyway if we can smooth over anything i get wrong with "different customs" that will be useful! but i think im grasping it enough to bs some narrative
Ⓓᴀɴ ⓈᴀʀᴛᴏʀɪꙄ
absolutely!
Platinum
Hoyle's Rules of Dragon Poker (Plurk Paste)
Ⓓᴀɴ ⓈᴀʀᴛᴏʀɪꙄ
^CharDee MacDennis takes umbrage with that being the most complicated game in the world
AnabelVIII
there we go, tagged
Ⓓᴀɴ ⓈᴀʀᴛᴏʀɪꙄ
ooh I'll hit you back once I'm done with platelets!
AnabelVIII
im around all day so we can bounce if u like
Ⓓᴀɴ ⓈᴀʀᴛᴏʀɪꙄ
for sure! I'll probably be a few hours (hopefully) if I meet the blood pressure cut off but then I'm around
AnabelVIII
roger rrger