Last Call Poker Holds Final Graveyard Game
When Lucky Lionel Brown passed away, he left specific instructions, as well as a ton of cash, to create a poker website in order to tell his story, and to get poker players to hold poker wakes in his honor in cemeteries across the country. That is the general idea behind the fictitious story of Last Call Poker, the latest in the growing genre of alternate reality games - games where players compete and participate both online and in real world events. This entity was created in order to create marketing buzz for Activisions latest big game, Gun.
The Hollywood Forever cemetery was the venue for the last of the real world events, called Graveyard Games, where about 60 people raced around the resting places of the dead to play a game called Tombstone Holdem. While many of the folk who came to the cemetery, or to a gravesite where one of the six previous events were held, complained about what they saw as a lack of respect for the dearly departed, game organizers and the operators of the cemeteries themselves, who granted permission for the Graveyard Games, felt that inviting the living to spend time in cemeteries is a great way to honor the dead….
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Poker lingo:
- BUTTON CHARGE - A periodic fee paid by whoever is the button, perhaps every 20 minutes or 30 minutes. Constitutes part or all of the HOUSE CUT.
- FOURTH STREET - In stud poker, the fourth card dealt to each player. Sometimes used to refer to the fourth community card dealt in Hold'em, although the more common term for this is TURN (q.v.).
- POSSIBLE [STRAIGHT/FLUSH] - Up cards that quite possibly could lead to a straight and/or a flush.
- POSITION - One's location in the betting sequence, relative to the players still in the hand. First position is first to act.
- RACE - In tournaments it is sometimes convenient to remove all lower-denomination chips from play, as the remaining players' stacks tend to grow. Small chips are converted to larger chips and any odd chips are "raced off" in the following way: each player with odd chips places them in front of his stack and is dealt one card for each chip. Highest card (rank and suit) takes all the small chips and converts them to higher-denomination chips.
- SHOWDOWN - The point at the end of the hand where all active players reveal their cards and the pot is awarded to the winner(s).
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