Last Call Poker

[Monty Cantsin]

Has this been talked about yet?

Last Call Poker (http://www.lastcallpoker.com/)

It appears to be a poker-themed ARG.

ARG = Alternate Reality Game. A primarily web-based, usually mystery-themed adventure game that uses a network of fictional websites, emails, other media and sometimes real-world events. Examples are "The Beast" which was the game they made to promote the Spielberg movie AI and "I Love Bees" which was made to promote the Halo 2 launch on the X-Box.

Fair warning 1: most ARG's pretty much suck, they're usully confusing, and time-consuming, with too much text, cheesy, overwrought narratives, and dopey find-the-hotspot or unscramble-the-code puzzles.

Fair warning 2: most ARG's turn out to be ads for something. This one looks pretty slick and expensive and is clearly going to be an ad for something, whether it's poker-related or not I have no idea. Who knows? Maybe it's a campaign to announce rakeback on party!

I didn't make it and I'm not recommending it - it quite possibly sucks. But these things are cool in theory and given the poker theme I thought I'd pass it on.

More info on ARGs here: ARGN (http://www.argn.com/)

/mc

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Has this been talked about yet?

Last Call Poker (http://www.lastcallpoker.com/)

It appears to be a poker-themed ARG.

ARG = Alternate Reality Game. A primarily web-based, usually mystery-themed adventure game that uses a network of fictional websites, emails, other media and sometimes real-world events. Examples are "The Beast" which was the game they made to promote the Spielberg movie AI and "I Love Bees" which was made to promote the Halo 2 launch on the X-Box.

Fair warning 1: most ARG's pretty much suck, they're usully confusing, and time-consuming, with too much text, cheesy, overwrought narratives, and dopey find-the-hotspot or unscramble-the-code puzzles.

Fair warning 2: most ARG's turn out to be ads for something. This one looks pretty slick and expensive and is clearly going to be an ad for something, whether it's poker-related or not I have no idea. Who knows? Maybe it's a campaign to announce rakeback on party!

I didn't make it and I'm not recommending it - it quite possibly sucks. But these things are cool in theory and given the poker theme I thought I'd pass it on.

More info on ARGs here: ARGN (http://www.argn.com/)

/mc

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Its really goign to suck to have to rebuild your post count.

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Has this been talked about yet?

Last Call Poker (http://www.lastcallpoker.com/)

It appears to be a poker-themed ARG.

ARG = Alternate Reality Game. A primarily web-based, usually mystery-themed adventure game that uses a network of fictional websites, emails, other media and sometimes real-world events. Examples are "The Beast" which was the game they made to promote the Spielberg movie AI and "I Love Bees" which was made to promote the Halo 2 launch on the X-Box.

Fair warning 1: most ARG's pretty much suck, they're usully confusing, and time-consuming, with too much text, cheesy, overwrought narratives, and dopey find-the-hotspot or unscramble-the-code puzzles.

Fair warning 2: most ARG's turn out to be ads for something. This one looks pretty slick and expensive and is clearly going to be an ad for something, whether it's poker-related or not I have no idea. Who knows? Maybe it's a campaign to announce rakeback on party!

I didn't make it and I'm not recommending it - it quite possibly sucks. But these things are cool in theory and given the poker theme I thought I'd pass it on.

More info on ARGs here: ARGN (http://www.argn.com/)

/mc

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Its really goign to suck to have to rebuild your post count.

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hehehe

[siccjay]

You know you done [censored] up don't you?

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You know you done [censored] up don't you?

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If MC got banned for this I would seriously consider quitting 2+2. All of you settle down. Users and user-mods should quit being so itchy to police content and try to generate something with quality instead. Or at least avoid slagging off good posters who put in the effort.

NT

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You know you done [censored] up don't you?

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If MC got banned for this...

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Why would he be banned? I think the thread should simply be moved. When I come to OOT, I don't want to see the P-word mentioned anywhere.

[siccjay]

I don't think anyone should be banned. He still [censored] up talkin about that card game thingy.

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I don't think anyone should be banned. He still [censored] up talkin about that card game thingy.

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No, the other poster referred to banning, you just pointed out 'wrong forum.' I just replied to the last post in the thread.

Point stands though. People are too trigger happy around here. It's a big game of gotcha for 90% of you.

NT

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Monty wrote the single greatest post in OOT history, so he's got to be allowed pretty free reign just on the off chance that he'll ever duplicate his brilliance.

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I don't think anyone should be banned. He still [censored] up talkin about that card game thingy.

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No, the other poster referred to banning, you just pointed out 'wrong forum.' I just replied to the last post in the thread.

Point stands though. People are too trigger happy around here. It's a big game of gotcha for 90% of you.

NT

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trigger happy? /images/graemlins/smile.gif you're weeeiiiiiirrrrddd

[Monty Cantsin]

Sorry, i'm a complete OOT n00b. First I've heard about the taboo. I just didn't know where else to post this.

Moderators feel free to move this thread to a more appropriate forum or delete it or ignore it or whatever.

/mc

[Monty Cantsin]

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Monty wrote the single greatest post in OOT history, so he's got to be allowed pretty free reign just on the off chance that he'll ever duplicate his brilliance.

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wtf?

/mc

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Poster: Monty Cantsin
Subject: Re: How did your mad poker skillz0rs develop over time?

I'm sure my story is similar to many other 2+2ers. One morning I was pulled out of my 7th grade English class and told to go to the principal's office. There was a tall man with a briefcase standing next to my mother and father, who were smiling strangely - like they were sad and scared but trying to be brave.

The man's name was Mr. Morgenstern and he told me about his job studying school records looking for children who had a certain rare combination of mathematical ability and pathological aggression. He said these children had a special gift and that no-one is truly happy if they don't reach their full potential.

Then he handed me a deck of cards and told me to say goodbye to my parents.

The Camp I was sent to was a converted boy's school somewhere in the desert. In the mornings we drilled Markov chains and Nash equilibria, in the afternoons we drilled transverse psychology and all the differential calculations of greed and fear necessary to map the currents of the coldest and hottest tables. In the evenings we were given fruit plates and watery cocktails and we played cards.

We slept in staggered 4 hour shifts in blackout curtained cabins. When we couldn't sleep we would sometimes play poker from our bunks, calling out bets and raises while one boy, who kept the entire deck in his head, would shuffle from bunk to bunk whispering hole cards.

And it was no secret many of the boys practiced another kind of hold'em to stave off the lonely chill of those cloudless desert nights.

The Camp had its own baroque hierarchy of influence and respect only loosely associated with the different stakes that we played. We never payed much attention to bankrolls because they were given out and taken back pseudo-randomly by the counsellors. But we knew we knew each other's edges down to the fraction of a degree. And we kept our distance from the "plankton". Every two weeks the mulch at the bottom of the pool would be culled, and a handful of boys would be picked up by shamefaced parents and taken away to careers as investment bankers and computer programmers. This was the only risk of ruin that haunted our nightmares.

Because we had nothing to spend it on we came to view money as a cipher, and we craved it not for its tawdry exchange value but for its ultimate and true meaning as leading indicator in the economics of domination and control.

Eventually it became clear that the counsellors set up our games for something more than educational purposes. Top boys were pitted against each other at tables where the stacks, positions, and temperaments were carefully composed analogues to certain real-world economic and geo-political situations. Through one-way glass the optimal solutions to complex multi-agent dilemmas were recorded by balding men with visors and clipboards.

The internet bubble, for example, corresponded to a ridiculously long run of good cards caught by one "Tubby" Peterson, who eventually went mega-tilt and lost everything in a spectacular reverse rush. Later that night he tried to hang himself but the rope broke.

Certain key confrontations of the Serbo-Croation conflict were modelled with tense heads-up matches between notorious LAG Micky "The Tooth" Chambers and a brilliant but insane little TAG named Steven who was widely rumoured to have kept a severed human finger under his mattress.

Most of us, myself included, had no curiousity about the shadow world behind the mirror. To us these messy scenarios of civil unrest, disease control, and oil prices were just warped reflections of the ideal realm of pips and digits whose combinatory circulation was the alpha and omega of our private, perfect empire.

When I was too old to play they sent me home. I was 15.

Nowadays, I'm allowed to make a certain amount per month, and the counsellors monitor my accounts to make sure my win rate stays sub-anomalous. But to be honest, I'm not sure I'm even capable of breaking that rule anymore. I have a family now and hobbies and interests. I shop, I ski, I watch television. These things, and the pills I take, have dulled my edge enough to make me harmless. I can cut but not kill and so I'm safe.

And I'm happy enough, I guess, to have reached the full potential of something once, though I'm not sure what it was.

/mc

[rusellmj]

The whole thing is awsome but I loved the following:


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The internet bubble, for example, corresponded to a ridiculously long run of good cards caught by one "Tubby" Peterson, who eventually went mega-tilt and lost everything in a spectacular reverse rush. Later that night he tried to hang himself but the rope broke.


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Monty wrote the single greatest post in OOT history, so he's got to be allowed pretty free reign just on the off chance that he'll ever duplicate his brilliance.

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Most of his other posts aren't far off brilliant as well...

[razor]

When is a Mod gonna move this thread back to OOT where it belongs?

1) this is /mc so he gets to post this where ever he wants.

2) did the Mod who moved this even read the post and checkout the website before moving this thread?