During Raya holidays, spent two nights having fun with friends on play a recently invented new Poker game, we called it, "Poker with Joker".
Here is how it was played:
1. Everbody put a minimum bet on the "pot". Shuffle the cards and each players receive five cards.
2. You can changed your card from "0" to "3" to make you cards with the biggest rank as possible according to poker rules*
3. Once the unwanted card(s) are released for changes, each person was given a chance to raise his or her bet to the pot based on the largest cards that you thrown out, off course, you can give away your rights if you don't want to raise the pot.
4. Take the cards from the deck in sequence, based on who throw out the largest cards, Ace is the biggest and number 2 is the smallest. When both have the same cards such as two Aces, he who have the best "flower" wins.. the sequence is Spade, Heart, Club and then Diamond.
5. So at the end, each person should had 5 cards on hand, if you have 6 cards due to you mistook an extra card, you are consider disqualified. Then, each players throw out one of the cards from your hand and then we will see who make the call first, tactically speaking, most people prefer to throw out the smallest card on hand so that he or she can make the final call.
6. Each players will raise the pot the second time, those who hold the weakest set of cards will usually fold in this round due to after they have a swap on the three cards but still didn't get what they want. Off course, the smart and bold players can always raise a bet that will scare off the remaining players and make each of them fold their cards in order to win the pot money.
7. Ok. The fun part of Poker with Joker is, there were four jokers mixed to the 52 cards, that makes 56 cards, Joker is like a card that can "transform" itself to whatever cards you like, but when the "authentic" cards will always prevail the "joker-tranformed" cards, the original one will always beat the fake one, let say both had a Spade Flush, one of the player had Ace in Spade and another player had 3 cards in spade in two jokers, the second player cannot say that he want his joker to be transformed into Ace in spade, due to the player with real Ace in spade prevails him, and also the "five of a kind rule" doesn't exist in Poker with Joker.
8. Finally, after everyone has made their calls, all players will show his set of cards, the person who has the best hand wins all the pot money.
*Poker rules in sequence.
1. Royal Flush (A,K,Q,J,10 all in spade)
2. Straight Flush (5 cards in sequence, 2,3,4,5, etc... and with the same flower such as diamond, hearts, etc)
3. Four of a kind (Eg. Four Kings)
4. Full house (Three of a kind + a pair, eg, KKKJJ)
5. Flush (5 cards hold the same flower)
6. Straight (5 cards in sequece, eg. A,2,3,4,5 or 8,9,10,J,Q)
7. Three of a kind(eg. Three Queens on hand)
8. Two Pairs (eg. JJ, QQ)
9. One Pair (eg. 10,10)
10. No pair (then it will depend on the biggest cards on hand)
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Monday, October 02, 2006
Basket ball members
My height is around 174cm, these center player at the back really makes me looks kinda short. :)
Check point inspection
I don't understand why the Sri Lanka mall close at 3pm on Sunday, well, I think the term, "mall" shouldn't apply to the shopping center in Sri Lanka, because it is really small, the four storey mall is the size of one floor Giant supermarket in Kelana Giant,
Bought some children clothes for my niece and nephew and my mom too, I board the first tuk-tuk who approach, like usual, the damn tuk tuk driver asking a fare of 300rs, which 200rs is about right and reasonable, this kind of driver I could have ignored it because of their dishonesty, however, I board the tuk-tuk because I don't want to waste my time. Off course, he agreed at 200rs to take me back.
The traffic is not that bad on Sunday, you see, the air quality in Sri Lanka is not so good due to a lot of old cars like the tuk-tuk and buses running around, or perhaps, I have been sitting in cars or public transport like LRT most of the time and I forgot how was it like to travel open air.
When we passed by a checkpoint, the soldier waved on my driver and ask him to stop for inspection. For the past few months, the north side of Sri Lanka was harrassed by the Tamil Tigers, which they called it the rebels, the peace talk ambasaddor was assasinated this year, that is the reason why the company is giving the Chinese employees an extra of USD20 every day for their allowance. Well, I hope I can benifit from that, but apparently I don't think so.
The driver pulled over the three wheelers and the soldiers asked him to show his papers... Can't really blame the troops because this driver really looks like a crook to me too. I sat behind the driver, checking out the guards' FN FAL assault rifles, I saw there were two pouches on the soldier, each pouch stores 2 cartridges of magazines for the rifle, I think they really means business, if there is a gun fight, the extra magazines will come in handy.
Another guard lean down his head and ask me where do I come from, I told him Malaysia. He requested me to show him my passport. I told him that I left it in the hotel, (come on, who the hell will bring his passport here and there?) I asked him, can I give you my ID instead? I took out my wallet and hand him my Malaysian ID, The guard took it and look at it. At the same time, the guard who carries the FN FAL rifle inspected the papers of the driver, may be he want to make sure that this fella is legit. I notice the hand of the driver is shaking a bit during the inspection process... I think a lot of people will, especially when you stand so close to the gun point.
Lucky the soldier did not give any hard time to foreigners like me, or else I will be screwed because I don't have a passport with me at that time. Somehow I think Sri Lankans quite respect the foreigners, I also had one experience that the guy in food court gave me some rice for free even though I didn't pay for it, because I ordered a lamb curry and they only give me lamb curry instead of lamb curry with rice, when I told him that I will pay for the rice, he give me a signal that he will give the rice to me, FOC.
After the inspection, we are free to go, paid the tuk tuk driver 500rs, and he gave me back 270Rs because that is what he got, I get off the three wheeler and walked back to my room...
Bought some children clothes for my niece and nephew and my mom too, I board the first tuk-tuk who approach, like usual, the damn tuk tuk driver asking a fare of 300rs, which 200rs is about right and reasonable, this kind of driver I could have ignored it because of their dishonesty, however, I board the tuk-tuk because I don't want to waste my time. Off course, he agreed at 200rs to take me back.
The traffic is not that bad on Sunday, you see, the air quality in Sri Lanka is not so good due to a lot of old cars like the tuk-tuk and buses running around, or perhaps, I have been sitting in cars or public transport like LRT most of the time and I forgot how was it like to travel open air.
When we passed by a checkpoint, the soldier waved on my driver and ask him to stop for inspection. For the past few months, the north side of Sri Lanka was harrassed by the Tamil Tigers, which they called it the rebels, the peace talk ambasaddor was assasinated this year, that is the reason why the company is giving the Chinese employees an extra of USD20 every day for their allowance. Well, I hope I can benifit from that, but apparently I don't think so.
The driver pulled over the three wheelers and the soldiers asked him to show his papers... Can't really blame the troops because this driver really looks like a crook to me too. I sat behind the driver, checking out the guards' FN FAL assault rifles, I saw there were two pouches on the soldier, each pouch stores 2 cartridges of magazines for the rifle, I think they really means business, if there is a gun fight, the extra magazines will come in handy.
Another guard lean down his head and ask me where do I come from, I told him Malaysia. He requested me to show him my passport. I told him that I left it in the hotel, (come on, who the hell will bring his passport here and there?) I asked him, can I give you my ID instead? I took out my wallet and hand him my Malaysian ID, The guard took it and look at it. At the same time, the guard who carries the FN FAL rifle inspected the papers of the driver, may be he want to make sure that this fella is legit. I notice the hand of the driver is shaking a bit during the inspection process... I think a lot of people will, especially when you stand so close to the gun point.
Lucky the soldier did not give any hard time to foreigners like me, or else I will be screwed because I don't have a passport with me at that time. Somehow I think Sri Lankans quite respect the foreigners, I also had one experience that the guy in food court gave me some rice for free even though I didn't pay for it, because I ordered a lamb curry and they only give me lamb curry instead of lamb curry with rice, when I told him that I will pay for the rice, he give me a signal that he will give the rice to me, FOC.
After the inspection, we are free to go, paid the tuk tuk driver 500rs, and he gave me back 270Rs because that is what he got, I get off the three wheeler and walked back to my room...
Sunday, October 01, 2006
Lord of Wars
Just finished watching this movie from Nicholas Cage, the title is "Lord of Wars", Cage plays Yuri, an arm dealer, there are several lines that I think is quite funny:
1. "I sold guns to every army but the Salvation Army."
2. Militia: This is your hotel, 2 stars!
Militia asked, " Can you bring me the gun of Rambo?"
Yuri: Part one, two, or three?
Militia: I have only seen Part I
Yuri: The M-60.
3. "Is like parking your car in a certain neighborhood in Bronx, you just don't do it..." The africans dismantle a cargo plane within 24 hrs, like ants tear the dead cockroach apart.
1. "I sold guns to every army but the Salvation Army."
2. Militia: This is your hotel, 2 stars!
Militia asked, " Can you bring me the gun of Rambo?"
Yuri: Part one, two, or three?
Militia: I have only seen Part I
Yuri: The M-60.
3. "Is like parking your car in a certain neighborhood in Bronx, you just don't do it..." The africans dismantle a cargo plane within 24 hrs, like ants tear the dead cockroach apart.
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