Poker Before Dusk

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Postby Graham » 26 Jan 2009, 21:47

tak197 wrote:Out of curiosity, Mrs. bun the Baker's wife is from... Old Maid?

Happy Families. Weird game.

Also, I'll through the script up on the wiki and let you guys format it and correct it for the dialogue we actually used.
(Once someone makes the video page for this one, that is)
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Postby Yukikaze » 26 Jan 2009, 21:57

Good video. I just have one question.

Is Bill seriously that tall!? You didn't have him standing on a phonebook or something?

You guys could do a Lord of the Rings re-enactment, with Bill playing all of the non-Hobbit characters.
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Postby Kdz » 26 Jan 2009, 21:57

I'm inclined to agree that a shirt with all the public cards and "UNOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!" underneath it would be sweet.

As a poker fan(one who actually plays, a lot. Any kind), this was great. Sometimes the announcers do get a bit impenetrable, but I promise, the words have meaning. Mostly referring to the nicknames for the public cards and possible hands.
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Postby Lord Chrusher » 26 Jan 2009, 22:29

Is Action 9 the same channel as Action 9 News? Or is Action 9 the channel?
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Postby billyjr82 » 26 Jan 2009, 22:33

As someone who understands about 98% of what those poker commentaries are talking about, that was hilarious!


Also:
empath wrote:I'm sorry, but for me, poker is "Five Card Draw" or maybe "Seven Card Stud". You mention Texas Hold'Em, and I'll tell you to go get your M:TG deck, you gee-whizzers!

It's about the players not the cards themselves or byzantine rules! Study your opponents to divine what they have, not try to recall obscure conditions with esoteric jargon.


While I agree that all the TV attention has watered down all the tactics used in the game, I would argue that hold'em in general is more psychological than 5-card draw (not so much 7-stud as long as it's delt properly). Reason being, in 5-card draw, you only have two things to go off of: their bets and how many cards they draw (yeah, and other meta-game stuff but that's not my point here...that'll always be there). In Hold'em, you also have the community which allows betting position and bluffing to have a different meaning to them.

tl;dr: Hold'em has the same kind of mind games as other poker variants if not more, it's just been watered down by the media.
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Postby Dominic Appleguard » 26 Jan 2009, 22:51

tak197 wrote:Out of curiosity, Mrs. bun the Baker's wife is from... Old Maid?

It's one of those really old school kid's card games, that's all I can figure.

Old Maid can be played on a regular deck.
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Postby wilson_x1999 » 26 Jan 2009, 23:29

AlexanderDitto wrote:I laughed at Ms. Bun, the baker's wife.

I lost it at Colonel Mustard with the candlestick.


Same here, for a second I thought the whole game was a setup for something else, but when I saw Ms Bun I LOL'ed XD

Graham and Morgan, both do an awesome job as commentators :D
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Postby Canonfoder » 26 Jan 2009, 23:31

Dominic Appleguard wrote:Old Maid can be played on a regular deck.


There are however also special old maid decks (at least here) that use barnyard animals and an ogre so that you aren't an "Old Maid" when you lose because that is a bit dated.
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Postby tamaness » 26 Jan 2009, 23:39

...and those special "old maid," "war," and "go fish" decks can be used to play poker, bceause the game didn't change /at all/ when moving to a non-standard deck.
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Postby -Geoff- » 27 Jan 2009, 00:43

ahahah my favourite in a bit, good going guys. Reminded me of godzilla bukkake in the Crooked Little Vein for some reason...crap I just lost the game.
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Postby DontPanic » 27 Jan 2009, 00:55

I scream uno whenever I win at anything.

Awesome video again this week: short, sweet, and it made me giggle.
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Postby Splunge » 27 Jan 2009, 03:16

Curses! It would appear Blip.TV doesn't work properly on the Wii Internet Channel. Now I can't watch LRR until my computer is fixed/replaced :(
Any chance of posting this one up on YouTube? I can watch videos there...
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Postby Nintendownz » 27 Jan 2009, 03:30

I used to watch poker late at night with my dad when we were both bored, you have to give the commentators some credit. They're doing there best to make something that's boring as hell, interesting to watch. That and they probably like the sound of their own voice.

Regardless, funny vid ^.^
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Postby Tetsubo » 27 Jan 2009, 05:01

Well, it wasn't any sillier than actual poker.
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Postby StoneageRocker » 27 Jan 2009, 06:29

If anyone does Improv here, this video may seem familar as there's an Improv game called "Game", where you bascially do a scene where you play a game and make up rules, and have to stick by internal logic of rules mentioned so far
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Postby Unclever title » 27 Jan 2009, 06:52

Great video. And thanks. Just thought you'd like to hear that again.

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Postby kilgr20 » 27 Jan 2009, 07:16

haha, I think the best part was the magic: the gathering part, mostly since I'm a huge Magic fan lol
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Postby Zhyard » 27 Jan 2009, 10:40

Super Mecha-Godzilla Viking eh? So this is when Paul became a dinosaur. Thus we can conclude that he can grow The Beard in just "a few days".
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Postby ClownX » 27 Jan 2009, 12:31

Quick question: Have any of you guys seen the show The Real Inspector Hound? I was in it (as Hound [himself?]), and there was a scene that was more or less a condensed version of that sketch.
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Postby Timelady » 27 Jan 2009, 13:59

That was awesome! I'm still laughing!

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Postby King Kool » 27 Jan 2009, 15:41

Yukikaze wrote:Good video. I just have one question.

Is Bill seriously that tall!? You didn't have him standing on a phonebook or something?

You guys could do a Lord of the Rings re-enactment, with Bill playing all of the non-Hobbit characters.


He is six-foot-ten. Most of the other crew are over six feet, with Graham at six-three. Paul is five-eleven.

Isn't Gandalf supposed to be seven feet tall?
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Postby TehXmasGhost » 27 Jan 2009, 15:51

ClownX wrote:Quick question: Have any of you guys seen the show The Real Inspector Hound? I was in it (as Hound [himself?]), and there was a scene that was more or less a condensed version of that sketch.


Yeah, and Lamont came this close to pulling a FULL under-crutch moonsault and lost to Elway because he pulled a twist-flip-gargle play and got an Uno even though Lamont got him into a back-ended flip.

Oh crap he did...
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Postby the amativeness » 27 Jan 2009, 16:07

Every time I listen to this, I am utterly amused at the way Morgan shouts "Uno!". I don't think it will ever get old...
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Postby Zloj » 27 Jan 2009, 16:10

After watching it i am left with only one question. When will Paul get his beard back?
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Postby WNivek » 27 Jan 2009, 17:07

Zloj wrote:After watching it i am left with only one question. When will Paul get his beard back?

Just in time to shave it off again for Desert Bus With A Vengeance.

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