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Pooh Poker

Rules

Cards are dealt one at a time, starting with the player to the dealer's left and continuing clockwise until each player has four cards. Each player can then choose to replace any number of cards (zero to four); the appropriate number of replacement cards are dealt to each player in turn, again starting from the dealer's left and proceeding clockwise. The winner of a given hand becomes the dealer for the next hand. In case of a tie, the dealer does not change.

The game is played with a deck of Disney Pooh Snap cards. Since the deck contains only 36 cards and there are no suits, there are some variations from regular poker.

Cards (in order of descending value)

Pooh
Pooh/Tigger
Pooh/Eeyore
Kanga/Roo
Tigger
Piglet
Wol
Rabbit
Eeyore

Hands (in order of decreasing value)

Four of a kind
Three of a kind
Straight
Two pair
Pair-and-a-half
Pair
Half pair

Notes: Four of a kind, three of a kind, two pair, and one pair are the same as the regular poker hands. Since there are no suits, there are no flushes, and with only four cards in the hand, there is no full house.

Half pairs occur when you get two cards sharing a common character, thus Pooh with Pooh/Tigger or Pooh/Eeyore, Tigger with Pooh/Tigger, or Eeyore with Pooh/Eeyore. You can only get one half pair; any combination containing two possible half pairs is a higher scoring hand - a pair, two pair, or a straight.

A straight is not a question of having cards in rank order (as in regular poker), but having a chain of common characters across all four cards. There are three such chains:

Tigger-Pooh/Tigger-Pooh-Pooh/Eeyore (highest)
Pooh/Tigger-Pooh-Pooh/Eeyore-Eeyore
Tigger-Pooh/Tigger-Pooh/Eeyore-Eeyore (lowest)

(This ranking is based on the ranking of the hands if straights were not a special scoring hand.)

Variants

Wols Wild: Wols are wild - they can represent any card. Ties are broken by the number of Wols; the fewer Wols, the better the hand.

Lowball: The lowest ranking hand wins. The lowest possible hand is a Piglet-high nothing; the highest hand is four Poohs.

Betting

Betting is optional, as the game is designed for frazzled parents and babysitters. Small candies like M&Ms, or other edibles such as peanuts are ideal. In case of a tie, the pot is held over until the next hand, or someone gets hungry.

Best for three or four players; with five players and a single deck it is possible to run out of cards. Ages 30 and up.

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Piglet Of The Day

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Sunny Melbourm&*%ne

This is a - Ringwood - Limited Express - Service via the - City Loop. Help us to create a better service by validating your ticket.

Well, I wasn't planning on invalidating my ticket.

Yes folks, I'm in Tram Town, and my wireless internet access is workmbling just fi83849**(($(.

Speaking of which, what the fetid photon have they done to Spencer St Station?! I thought I would have to walk to Flinders St to actually catch a train.

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Piglet Of The Day Part Two

adopt your own virtual pet!

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Piglet Of The Day

This one courtesy of Meg's Musings.

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Piglet Of The Day

(Image stolen from courtesy of Kosher Piglets)

Least Loved Bedtime Stories < Relapsed Catholic < Lost Budgie

Also: Mark Steyn

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Standards

I came in to work this morning to find that one of our payment processing servers had gone little-rubber-feet up over the weekend. A couple of minutes of poking around told me that either the power supply had failed or the motherboard was fried beyond repair. It took five minutes to pull a power supply out of a spare desktop machine and swap it in, and we had a working server again.

Because we use standard ATX power supplies and motherboards for all our systems, we can do that.

I'm off on a trip on Thursday, and I'll be on the train for about 11 hours. The battery life of my notebook is only three or four hours. Fortunately, I'm in the middle of setting up another notebook for one of our managers and I can borrow the battery from it while I'm away.

That only works because the two notebooks are identical models. There are hundreds of different notebook batteries around, exactly two of which will work in mine.

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I'm on holidays from the 6th to the 16th. Yay for me! It's the first time I've had more than one non-public-holiday off in two and a half years.

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