August 8, 2010

Halloween Party Food Tips and Ideas for Your Guests

Halloween is not only for children. A holiday filled with fun, costumes and treats belongs to everyone, and we’re sharing our top indulgences for adults this time of the year. From ultimate halloween party food to spoil yourself with, to goodies perfect for sharing at the office, to gifts for the Halloween party hostess, our top choices are guaranteed to put a gluttonous grin on anyone’s face!

Halloween Party Food

Prepare to serve at least one signature Halloween beverage. Here is a tasty one. One of the simplest spirits’ to serve is Ghoul-Aid (don’t forget a label!) which is just made with: A punch bowl, Kool Aid Packets in orange or purple or green, sugar, water, and (of course) vodka. For a frightful effect, float a hand’ made from filling and freezing a latex glove (remove the glove when the hand’ is frozen). You can also float gummy worms for an extra creepy treat for guests!

Purchase ‘creepy cloth’ in black and gray and use it to drape over furniture, pictures, mantels, chandeliers, etc. to create a feeling of a haunted house! It’s only cheesecloth specially colored and shredded, and you could likely create it yourself if you have the time and energy! Visit a Halloween store or online retailer to buy some effects like body parts, creatures, “Goretraits” (pictures that move when you walk past) and other fun Halloween items. Remove regular knick-knacks and replace with ghastlier decor, like a huge rubber rat peeking out from a pile of books, or a jar filled with eyeballs and green goo.

July 19, 2010

Time Is Money with Online Bonuses

Time is Money with Online Bonuses We all know that online poker bonuses are not exactly string free, but I find the recent development of time restrictions particularly troubling. While I am not a big fan, I at least understand why poker casinos require you to play through the bonus a couple of times. I do not, however, understand why some casinos require you to complete the play through in a defined period of time. I can see no logical explanation for this because the casino still gets your money no matter how long it takes you to play it through. The odds are still in favor of the house that they will get a sizable chunk of change whether it takes a day or a month. Time restrictions, of course, are a way for the poker casino to prevent paying out your bonuses. The theory is that you will go through your whole bankroll, and not have enough to reload in the specified period of time. If I am being lenient this is unscrupulous, but I rarely feel lenient. I consider the practice of time restrictions with online bonuses a blatant ploy to take advantage of the poker playing community. Don’t join in on the deception, refuse bonuses with time restrictions. We all need to stand up for our principles every once in a while.

June 29, 2009

Chasing a Hand

It’s risky to chase a poker online hand, but there are times when it makes sense. If you have lots of outs or if the cost of chasing is minimal, chasing might be your best, ahem, bet. Say you have an 8-9 of clubs and the flop comes out 3 of clubs, jack of hearts, and 10 of clubs. The table checks to you, and you are left wondering whether or not it’s worth it to chase your casino hand. You don’t have a hand yet, but count your outs-you have four 7’s and four Queens that can make your straight, but wait, there’s more! You’ve also got ten other clubs in the deck that can make your flush as well. That gives you eighteen cards that can make your hand, and you have two draws (the turn and the river) to get any of them.

Once you’ve decided to chase your hand, you’ve got to defend it. If the turn doesn’t make your poker online hand, nothing will weaken your resolve to make your hand more than having an opponent bet on the turn. A raise after the flop will have your opponents putting you on a hand and will make them a lot less likely to bet after the turn, giving you a free look at the river.

April 24, 2009

Poker Fiction: Drunk Baller

The guy next to me at the poker online high stakes no limit table would not stop drinking Bud Select and eating loaded nachos at the casino. His breath had begun to make me ill, not to mention his drooling on the green felt and the nudging my ribs to try to get me to have a bite of his cheese and jalapenos, which I politely declined.

The guy had more chips at the poker table than anyone, which he continued giving away hand after hand, more interested in slugging down the free booze and feeding his already enormous cheese gut from the casino’s endless troughs. I had already made $5,800 off of him by his pushing an 8 5 offsuit into my overpair on two different hands. The chips he passed were sticky and covered in spit, but would still spend when I cashed them in.

The rest of the table was hunkering in and waiting for the right spots to take more of his cash, not suffering so much as I having to hear the guy grovel over the chips and salsa, knocking more than three beers into my lap in the course of an hour. He kept calling me by his wife’s name, or some other woman, and asking me to rub his greasy back.

Though he’d paid my mortgage three times over, and likely would three times again, it was a job like any otherbabysitting the sucker hand by hand.

October 5, 2008

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Actions advertised as online contests, so far, can require an entry fee or testimonial of bribe.

July 24, 2008

Poker Theater, Plays and Musicals

What would the perfect poker show entail? Not a poker game, or a “pokern” tournament, as the Germans would say, but a good old fashioned poker play or musical, preferably in Las Vegas, Reno, or Atlantic City (Monte Carlo would be nice too).

You have your usual brand of musical numbers, and some speaking parts, but how would you integrate the game itself into the act?

Here’s my idea: You have two plays in one going on at the same time. The play begins with a few guys and gals playing poker on stage. That’s the anchor. That’s the main event. But sporadically throughout the scene, the something would happen at the table to trigger a flashback event. Since this is a play, on stage in real time, you would have the table lighting go down low, and then a new scene would unfold on another part of the stage.

Say one of the players has something on their mind. The second area of the stage would be where their “thoughts” are played out for the audience. Meanwhile, the poker game continues on the side, in real time, until the secondary scene is completed. Them we return to the table and play that out until the next thought or scene comes to light.

Voila! A poker play!