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Title: Random musings
Post by: GS Warehouse on April 19, 2005, 12:21:20 AM

As I type this, I just finished taping the replay of last Friday's World Series of Blackjack.  I usually catch the first run, but I had to tape CBS's NUMB3RS for Mom instead.  (ObGS: Did Rob Morrow ever do a game show?  Don't think so, so back to GSN.)  It's the second semifinal--the season really zoomed right by--and I stuck around to see Dealer Deanna peek at her hole card after turning over a 10.  She thought she had a blackjack--but the hole was a 4.  Max pointed out the A and the 4 on the cards the G-Nug use do look similar.

On that same hand, I don't know what Leann was thinking hitting her 13 against Deanna's 14, considering everybody else played it like a 4.  But she ended up taking the card that would have busted Deanna; instead the dealer hit to 21 and everybody lost.  Intentional or not, that's a shrwed piece of strategy (intentionally taking the dealer's bust card to wreck everybody else's hands--I call it the suicide bust).  BTW, don't try that at your local casino; it's better for tournament play.

Useless piece of WSoBj trivia: One of this year's players, Anthony Curtis, has been recapping this tournament, and in his blog he points out that Max and Megan are father and daughter.

Finally, I mentioned that I had to miss last Thursday's Password Plus because the power company needed the whole morning to fix a frayed power line connected to my house (not fraid as I said at the time--that spelling would draw a pout from Stacey).  Well, I recently added a Blockbusters 1987 episode guide (http://\"http://members.fortunecity.com/gswarehouse/bbguide87.html\")* to go with my guide from the Cullen era.  Right now, I have a hole where last Thursday's ep (#9) aired.  OK, so the way Friday's show started should give me an idea, but still...you know the drill, but I will not take replies from anyone whose initials are ZH.

* Edit: Yes, I know the HTML is a little off.  FortuneCity isn't at its best performance right now.

Title: Random musings
Post by: clemon79 on April 19, 2005, 12:23:19 AM

[quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Apr 18 2005, 09:21 PM\'](ObGS: Did Rob Morrow ever do a game show?  Don't think so, so back to GSN.)
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ObGS indeed: Rob Morrow played Congressional investigator Dick Goodwin in "Quiz Show".

Title: Random musings
Post by: MikeK on April 19, 2005, 10:16:04 AM

[quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Apr 19 2005, 12:21 AM\']Well, I recently added a Blockbusters 1987 episode guide (http://\"http://members.fortunecity.com/gswarehouse/bbguide87.html\")* to go with my guide from the Cullen era.  Right now, I have a hole where last Thursday's ep (#9) aired.  OK, so the way Friday's show started should give me an idea, but still...you know the drill, but I will not take replies from anyone whose initials are ZH.[/quote]
I can give you more details once I get home tonight, but Debbie lost at the Gold Run at the top of the show, Bob swept the following match and won $5000.

I don't know what's supposedly wrong with the HTML but it looks fine in FireFox.

Title: Random musings
Post by: Dbacksfan12 on April 19, 2005, 03:41:53 PM

[quote name=\'hmtriplecrown\' date=\'Apr 19 2005, 09:16 AM\']I don't know what's supposedly wrong with the HTML but it looks fine in FireFox.
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I'm in IE, and note no problems either.

Title: Random musings
Post by: GS Warehouse on April 19, 2005, 09:25:15 PM

[quote name=\'Modor\' date=\'Apr 19 2005, 02:41 PM\'][quote name=\'hmtriplecrown\' date=\'Apr 19 2005, 09:16 AM\']I don't know what's supposedly wrong with the HTML but it looks fine in FireFox.
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I'm in IE, and note no problems either.

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I got it fixed right not long after I sent the original message.  Sure enough, the server difficulties subsided before long.