tycho is the 25th Player. We are now full. I will still take Reserves if anyone is interested. It will take a little bit of time to get all the initial cards set up, but hope to have things going by no later than Saturday.
Round 1 Games are starting to be won. This weekend I will send out PMs to each Player of each game. That PM will tell what place they finished that specific Game and the Cards that have been drawn for them. Once they respond to which cards they will keep and which cards they will discard, I will update the Forum. I will only issue one set of cards at a time. For instance, Group 2 has two completed Games right now. I will send them a set of cards for the first completed Game. After they respond, I will send them the cards for the 2nd Game.
16 of the 25 Games have been completed. Since I have to send out a PM with the New Cards and each Player has to let me know what cards they want to discard, it is taking a little bit of time to get the cards sorted out.
Several have asked about the total cards held at any time. If you finish in 1st Place you end up with 3 extra cards, 2nd Place 2 Extra Cards and 3 Place 1 Extra Card. So if you come in any of those Places, you will have more than 5 Cards. When issue cards for the final game of your Group, you will be asked to send me the list of the 5 FINAL Cards you want to keep. The objective of winning a game is that you get to hold more cards at one time, until the last game, so selecting a higher hand is supposed to be easier. There is still the element of Luck that exists in real Poker, but holding more cards should help even that out.
Well it was a good final. jpk, traffic133, plurple and orangenitrox all ended up with Full Houses. However, freakns ended up with 4 of Kind for the win!!