Monday, February 26, 2007

Wikipedia, The Poker Game   [Jonah Goldberg]

From a reader:

  ...thought you might like this (mentioned in a thread discussing whether
Wikipedia should be an acceptable source in the college classroom):

"Meanwhile, we invented a new poker game last night called - you guessed
- Wikipedia. Each player is dealt three cards, with five common cards on
the table, meaning each player has eight cards with which to make his
best 5-card poker hand. After a round of betting, each player is given
to the opportunity to "overwrite" one common card with one of his hole
cards, and take a replacement hole card from the deck. The "overwrite"
costs 10c (for bandwidth). Another betting round ensues, followed by a
second "overwrite" round with the cost raised to 20c (next round 30c,
etc.). Once a player passes on the chance to overwrite, he cannot elect
to do so in a later round. Betting and overwriting continues until all
players pass their chance to overwrite. After one last round of betting,
players reveal their hands."

02/26 07:14 AMShare