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Third Geo-Poker Cache / Traditional Cache in Joe Creason Park
Welcome to Louisville’s Third Geo-Poker Game.
The rules to this game are somewhat different than the previous two and care should be taken to be familiar with them.
This is the HOLD EM CACHE for Louisville's THIRD GEO-POKER GAME.
This Poker game is only open to the first 17 people to take their cards. The Cache consists of three manila envelopes labeled Set “A”, “B” and “C”. Each Manila Envelope contains 17 envelopes labeled A1-17, B1-17, and C1-17. Each envelope contains two playing cards. Each player who chooses to play the game will select ONE envelope from Set “A”, Set “B” and Set “C”. This will, result in each player have three envelopes in their possession for a total of 6 cards. Once all 17 envelopes have been claimed from EACH of the manila folders, the game is closed to further players. There is only one cache to find in this game and this is it.
In this game, as mentioned above, players will collect a total of 6 cards and from these cards the player will compile the best 5 card poker hand. In order to enter the game, each player will go to the location of this cache, aptly named the “HOLD EM CACHE” and pick up their cards.
I have, of course, documented the contents of each envelope to prevent any ideas of card swapping.
Players are not required to take the envelopes in any specific order. You may select any of the envelopes, just so long as you only take one envelope from each of the three sets (A, B, and C). Only one envelope per Geocaching moniker. Spouses or team players are encouraged to conduct themselves in the utmost honor and not swap cards top make the best hand before reporting your envelope choices. If you encounter an envelope in the cache that has been damaged or otherwise tampered with, please contact me immediately and I will either replace or begin an intensive criminal investigation.
In logging your “Find” of this cache, you will reveal to me and others the envelope numbers you chose (example – A2, B12, and C8). You may also want to, at the time of logging, select this cache for your Watch list for reasons to be discussed later. Further upon logging this cache I require you share with the rest of the geocaching community a short Ode on one of the following subjects:
“Team Singchihuahua’s Greatness,” “Space Time Rifts and How they Effect Drive-Thru Orders,” “Atomic Numbers and Their Relationship to Lawyers,” “How it is that Mrs. Team Singchihuahua is not Clinically Insane by Now” or “What Makes a Geocacher So Much Smarter Than Other People”
It will be from these final 6 cards that you will compile and submit your best 5 (Five, Cinco, Cinque, V) card Poker hand. After all cards have been “dealt” and we have 17 players, the winner of the game, along with all the available player hands will be announced on the HOLD EM CACHE page (this is the reason why you selected it for your Watch list). The winner will then be allowed to gloat relentlessly about their poker-playing prowess and generally drive the rest of the caching community bonkers. The cache shall remain as regular caches after the game has concluded.
Players may enter the game as long as there are envelopes available at the HOLD EM CACHE. This way, people are not penalized for coming into the game at a later point. Non-players are welcome to log the cache while the game is on-going just please do not bother the envelopes that remain in the caches as part of the game, unless of course you have want to enter the game. Regular trading items are welcome in the cache during the game itself by all cachers. Due to lack of room in the cache initially, I cannot stock it with proper trade items and would appreciate the first 10-15 cachers placing something small in to get the cache trading started. Though the has been begun with 2 Geocaching Patches.
In order to accommodate the number of players, I have used two standard decks. This means there are some potential odd hands (5 of a kind comes to mind). If this becomes an issue I’ll sort it out with the assistance of my Muppet Magic 8 Ball, to which I refer for all important decisions. Okay okay? (Pepe the King Prawn)
The rank of winning poker hands in five card poker is as follows in descending order, for high-hand games:
Royal flush: Ten, jack, queen, king, ace of the same suit. A royal flush is simply an ace-high straight flush the best straight flush you can get. It's royal, of course, in that it contains all the courtly face cards.
Straight flush: a straight with all five cards in the same suit, for example, 7h, 8h, 9h, 10h, Jh. When the ace is used low, you can get a five-high straight flush: Ac, 2c, 3c, 4c, and 5c.
Four-of-a-kind: A five-card hand in which four of the cards have the same rank (plus one unrelated card), for example, 7d, 7h, 7c, 7s, 3c. Four-of-a-kind is also called quads. A higher ranked set of quads beats a lower ranked set; a set of four queens beats a set of four jacks.
Full house: three cards of one rank and two cards of another rank. If more than one player has a full house, the full house with the highest ranking three-card set wins. A full house is sometimes called a full boat, or simply, the boat.
Flush Five cards of the same suit, not in sequence. If there is more than one flush, the hand with the highest card(s) wins. So, for example, As, Js, 9s, 5s, 2s beats Ac, Jc, 8c, 7c, 5c.
Straight: Five cards in sequence, of any suit. The ace can be used in the high straight (10, J, Q, K, A) and the low straight (A, 2, 3, 4, 5). When there is more than one straight, the highest card in the sequence wins. So a jack-high straight beats a ten-high straight.
Three-of-a-kind: Three cards of the same rank, with two unrelated cards, in a five-card hand. Three-of-a-kind is sometimes called trips or a set.
Two pair: Two cards of one rank and two cards of another rank, plus the extra card. If two players have two pair, the hand with the highest pair wins. If they have the same high pair, then the highest second pair wins. If they have the same two pair, then the highest fifth card (called the kicker) wins.
One pair: Two cards of the same rank, with three unrelated cards. If two players have the same pair, the hand with the highest ranked outside card(s) wins.
High card Five otherwise unrelated cards-no pairs, no flush, no nothing'. In this sad case, whoever has the highest ranked card or cards wins the hand. So Kh, 9s, Sd, 3d, 2c beats Ks, 9d, 6c, Sc, 4d.
At the conclusion of the game, the HOLD EM CACHE will revert to a regular cache. Trade items are welcome from all cachers during and after the game with exceptions noted above.
“But Team Singchihuahua, WHAT ARE WE PLAYING FOR?” Good question. You are playing for a $25 Gift Certificate to Oxmoor Mall which I have donated for purposes of us all having a little friendly competition. Oxmoor had Dicks, Sears, Macy's, and assorted stores which would appeal to all ages. Since I’ve donated the prize, this clears with Geocaching.com’s cache policies and none of us will fear facing criminal misdemeanor charges from my old cohorts.
Comments or questions are welcome. All questions or disputes will be fielded by a panel consisting of myself, my wife, our 18 month old son, and our two Chihuahuas, both of which have law degrees from a fairly good Mexican Law School. Our decisions are beyond reproach. We are wise and learned in the ways of Poker games that we have made up. If you’re thinking about pointing out my bad spelling or complaining about your cards, remember, we’ve sued people for less and for fun.
PARKING - DO not park as close to the cache as you could. move along and park nearer the "house" so as to avoid conspicuous eyes and walk back to the cache. Thanks. JBF
(Would the last cacher to take their card envelopes, please remove the manila envelopes and deposit them in a trash can of your choice. Thanks, JBF)
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