You will be shocked to know that Texas hold 'em poker game has many variants. It is mainly classified based on the betting order that takes place in the game. Before you start playing these game variants, you must know how to play them.
Pot Limit – In pot limit, the bet amount can be raised to the total present in the pot. For instance, you can think of a scenario where the pot's total amount is only a hundred. If the first player to act in the betting rounds bets for 60, then the second player can bet only for the remaining 40. Remember, there are no caps to the number of raises allowed in the games' pot-limit variant.
Limit Poker – For limit poker, the maximum number of four bets is allowed for the betting rounds. The important point is that in limit poker, both the bet and raise are agreed upon before starting the game.
No Limit – The name signifies that there is no limit for betting. But only one thing you need to consider is that the minimum bet amount cannot be less than the big blind for that game.
What is the importance of poker hand ranking in Texas Hold 'em?
There are several online platforms available where you can enjoy Texas hold em poker game. But before you start the game, you must understand the poker hand ranking. If you are not aware of the poker hand ranking, it is not advisable to start playing the game.
In the case of Texas hold em poker, you must remember that there are five different card poker hands that a player can have. With these cards' help, you need to ensure that you have the best combination in your hand. Mentioned below are the poker hand ranking based on their rank.

• Royal Flush
• Straight Flush
• Four of a Kind
• Full House
• Flush
• Straight
• Three of a kind also known as Set
• Two pair
• One pair
• High card

The royal flush is the best of the lot, but its occurrence in the game is shallow. Similarly, the High card shares the lowest rank, but the event for this is highest.
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Inference
At this point, you will be aware of fundamental Texas Holdem poker rules that are applicable in different variants of the Texas Holdem poker game.

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Hey guys, Ive been planning to do this for quite some time, because I want this game to succeed and the best way to do that is give feedback of course. I didnt just want to talk out of my ass, so I decided to play the game until I thought I could actually give useful feedback. I got into the beta with the very last wave of players, so I havent been playing that long, yesterday however I reached Immortal rank so I feel like I played the game enough for my opinion to have some weight and it had enough time to develop properly. In general Im very positive on A2 and have quite a few bad things to say about A1, but I will try to give reasons for everything I say and also give positive and negative feedback.
So my way of starting the game was, I played the campaign all of the mssions except the hunger ones and hero draft until I had a full collection and then waited a little more until I reached Ancient rank so I could experiment in constructed without losing ranks. So I basically got the new player experience the way it was intended, even though of course Im not a new player really, because I played A1 and Im an experienced card game player. I will still give my opinion on this system. So here we go.
The campaign:
Playing the campaign didnt really scratch too much of an itch. A lot of the missions were super easy and therefore not fun to play at all. Thats kinda expected from beginner missions, but as a lot of other people already pointed out it also didnt really do a good job of explaining the game. Now I know that a proper tutorial is planned, but if thats the case maybe making the first mission a little bit more difficult might be a good idea so they dont feel like a complete waste of time. The later missions like the meepo one were well designed and fun to play, but we need more of those if campaign is gonna be a thing in A2. Also on another note: I actually had a good idea to complement the new tutorial. I didnt see any other game do it, but I think its a good idea and might be downright needed for a complex game like A2. You could have a menu in the main menu thats called rulebook or something, that you can open where you can read about all the game mechanics and keywords. I think this would help newer players a lot since often times you cant remember everything just because you played it in a tutorial once and playing the tutorial again is not fun at all. So having a place thats easy to navigate where you can read up on stuff you forgot would be super helpful.
Hero Draft:
When I didnt have access to the game yet I was kinda sold on the idea of hero draft. Now after playing it, Im a bit more sceptical. It looks like a fun concept on paper, and as a casual game mode it totally is, but it has several problems that Im gonna point out. First of all as many players pointed out, playing hero draft until you have a full collection in general is not a good experience, because on the way there you really get excited to play other modes. In general the mode does a good job of showcasing the mechanics of A2 and why they are great and what you can do in theory, but once youve realized that, you actually wanna start DOING these things instead of just theorizing about them. So basically you grow out of hero draft at some point, and for experienced card gamers that doesnt take long. Now whether thats a problem or not depends on whether there is a grind for cards in the full game ( which Im expecting there is), because that basically locks constructed away. Even if the matchmaking takes into consideration the card pools of the players, people are just not interested in playing constructed with limited card pools, and I wasnt either. This concept doesnt work, because if players like the concept of playing around and managing limitations, then phantom draft is likely where they wanna go. So I guess it all depends on at what point phantom draft will be available for new players. So the problem with hero draft and why it wont be a permanent game mode for most people is, that it lacks competitive integrity, and I think the crowd this game will attract will mostly be competitive people. I have a few suggestions that can help mitigate this problem, but I feel like hero draft just cant get to a point where people will respect this game mode and therefore it probably shouldnt be a ranked game mode. The first thing you can do is to improve the random decks created. I still remember having some really shitty decks and the game should generally make efforts to create a useful deck. I still remember one game where I played mono blue and my hand was complete garbage, to a point where I overdrew and had to struggle to get rid of cards in my hand to get to my items and newly drawn cards, because all the cards that were sitting in my hand were useless. Of course this is also kind of a balance problem, but if the variance in deck strength in general is too high the mode kinda becomes coinflip simulator instead of a deep strategy game. So this could definitely use some improvement. The other thing is the card pool. Currently the game uses a combined card pool of both players, but that gives the more experienced player an unfair advantage, on top of the fact that he already has an advantage because hes more experienced. This game mode matched me with a lot of players that had way bigger card pools than me and I assume this will stay this way for full release since people will leave this game mode fairly quickly and the ques wont be populated that much. Therefore Im suggesting that you change the card pool to only using cards that are in both players collection. This shouldnt be a problem because the starting card pool is big enough to play this mode, and it actually has benefits for both groups of players. The newbies dont get needlessly disadvantaged when playing against more experienced players, since they are already likely to lose, but this could actually help make these games less stompy and feel more like meaningful games. On top of that the experienced players that will likely only come to this mode for casual games, get a different experience from their play-with-full-card-pool-games, they get in the other game modes, depending on who they are facing and how progressed their collection is at this time. So that might make the game mode more interesting for them as well.
Constructed:
Im not gonna say too much about constructed, because in general I feel constructed is great in this game. Im mainly a constructed player, I played constructed only after reaching Ancient rank with hero draft, and I got Immortal rank in it yesterday. The quality of constructed mainly comes down to the game mechanics and card balance. I think the game mechanics were pretty much made for constructed play and Im also very pleased that you take card balance so seriously. Theres something for everyone, great ways to come up with creative decks that noone plays except you and have success, but also the "Im gonna netdeck an already optimized deck and play with it"-experience, that a lot of people seek. The good thing is that playing the game has a really high skill ceiling, which makes netdecking in this game not op, because you have to learn how to play the deck properly if you want to have success. Last thing I wanna say is that I hope you guys nail phantom draft as much as constructed, so theres a home for every type of player in Artifact.
Mechanics that were changed from A1, and why those were good changes:
In the next paragraph Im gonna go over things that changed from A1, and why these changes made the game better, because a lot of people still demand that specific mechanics go back to the way they were in A1, however I dont think there is a single change they made over A1 that is not an improvement, so Im gonna explain myself.

1. Lets start with the elephant in the room. The mana system in A2 imo is pretty good, even though it could still use some tweaks and Im gonna adress that a little later. But whats more important is, to realize why the A1 mana system was deeply flawed and imo the main reason why A1 failed, from the gameplay side of things. Imagine there was a card in Hearthstone, that read: "Destroy 1 minion your opponent controlled and burn 3 of their mana" and costs 7 mana. Would that be balanced? Maybe, Im not a HS expert. Would that be fun to play against? Hell no! What I just decribed to you Is what the average assassinate in A1 would do. You can say a lot about modern card games, and how most of them are dumb as hell, and I would mostly agree with you. But the thing is the card game industry figured some things out over the past couple decades. And one of those things is: Which mechanics are unfun, and therefore shouldnt be in our game. Mana burn is actually one of them (funny thing is mana burn does exist in A2, but is far from a competitive concept, so I guess we are in the clear for now). The mechanics of A1 are designed in a way, that the whole game revolves around this concept, a concept that is deemed unfun by the vast majority of the card game industry, and for good reason I want to add. It has always been an unwritten rule of card games that, if you can prevent your opponent from playing the game at all, then that will always be a winning strategy. I used to play a lot of old school Yu-gi-oh! back in the day. And back then cards existed in the game like " The Forceful Sentry", "Confiscation" and "Trap Dustshoot", that had the effect that you could look at your opponents hand and then take away one of their cards. All of these cards are still banned to this day in modern Yu-gi-oh! and the reason is simple: Looking at your opponents hand and taking away one of their cards is such a powerful concept, that it will decide games on the spot way too often and create an unfun experience in the process. And from my understanding, card game developers understood this, because this mechanic simply doesnt exist anymore in modern card games ( sure there probably are some exceptions, and funny enough Imperia in A2 is one of them, but you get the idea). And this is where A1 went wrong and why A2 is doomed to fail again if the developers should ever go back to the old mana system: The fact that you can deny a big chunk of your opponents mana pool by clearing all the heroes from a lane. As long as this is a thing, the game will always revolve around this mechanic, because the concept of denying your opponent actions is just too powerful of a concept to not use if its available. Sure you could design your cards in a way that this is not easily achievable, but why would you limit your design space this much, when the answer is simple: Just dont have your game have mana burn as a major mechanic because its not fun! Sure disruption is still a concept that exists in card games and its always gonna be powerful, because its simply impossible to design a game without having at least unintended interaction, that limit plays for the opponent. But it is from my point of view a consensus that the card game industry came to, that games are generally more fun if both players get to do what they want and noone gets shut out of the game. This of course is a utopia, not every single game can be a back and forth, but this is also an utopia that is worth working towards, and in my humble opinion A2 does a great job at that. And A1 just didnt respect this at all. A1 to me always felt more about shutting the opponent out of the game and therefore preventing them from executing their strategy at all, rather than letting the strategies of both players clash head on. And that is why I think A1's gameplay was incredibly unfun for the vast majority of players, and the mana system is to blame imo.
2. The deployment phase I think we all agree on is a straight up improvement from A1. Flops could be super frustrating and downright game deciding in A1 and A2 didnt completely eliminate this problem, but made some improvements to mitigate snowballing from the flop and those are very welcome. Deploying heroes after the flop also just got way better. No more random position for heroes, which I think a lot of people wanted, and rightfully so, because more player agency also means more room for skill expression.
3. Removing the random arrow was very important in my opinion, because this was just a source of needless frustration. Yes you could influence the arrows in A1, but a) this concept was not nearly prominent enough in the game to fight the bullshit rng that came from the random arrows, and b) even if you do have quite a lot of ways to influence arrows, it would still be randomly decided whether you needed to use that limited resource or not, which is still not ok. I dont think you would be cool with havin a random chance to discard your cheapest card and burn one of your mana at the start of your turn in A2, would you? I could go on my rng rant right here, but I will save that for later so lets move on.
4. So the shop is an interesting one. I already said, that I think it is an improvement over the old shop. But this is for me the mechanic, that still needs the most tweaks. But I will have a seperate section on how I would change the shop. This is about whats wrong with the A1 shop and why it needed to change. The obvious one are the consumables. People have complained about TP scroll randomness for ages and for good reason. Having one consumable that shows up at random and is like 10 times more impactful that the other consumables on top of also being cheaper is just straight up bad design. But also the item deck was very flawed. Not only that you could get crazy strong items on turn 2 or 3 if you highroll with an econ deck and decide the game then and there, you could also never really put high cost items into non-econ decks because they could show up at random and block you for the turn, which led to this really stale item meta especially in draft. The A2 shop improves on that by giving the player some agency over which items show up and therefore eliminate the problem of items blocking you like that, on top of the fact that they always allow you to run high cost items and then decide during the game that its not worth upgrading the shop because youre not gonna be able to afford pricey items. Also im not a big fan of the secret shop either, but ill go into that a bit later. The A2 shop still needs improvement for sure, but its already a sizeable improvement over the A1 shop, which was a complete dumpster fire imo.
5. The hero designs in A2 are so much better. Interesting cards are very important for a game to be succesful and A1 had way too few of them, which led to this super solved meta/tier list, mostly because the game didnt give a lot of reasonable alternatives. Now this is also a balance issue, but having simple cards also pushes this kind of development. Because the simpler a card is, the easier it is to evaluate its power level, on top of the fact that simple cards are also more boring to play with. If it was for me, I would probably have given every hero1 passive and 1 active, but Im fine with the way things are currently on the hero front. More complex heroes = more room for experimentation = more stuff for Timmies to do, which cannot be understated for a card game that wants to be succesful. But this also raises the skill ceiling, which is something that a Spike can appreciate as well.
6. The overdraw pile is also quite controversial, I still like it better than having no hand limit at all though. Havin no hand limit promotes this do-nothing-and-accumulate-cards-playstyle, that Im not a big fan of. For the same reasons items and abilities now cost money and I like that as well. I think having too many cards in a card game needs to be punished, because if it isnt, this will create unhealthy playstyles. The funny thing is, as bad as the overdraw pile feels sometimes, I even like this solution more that the standard cards-get-discarded-if-you-have-too-many-approach. Because artifact has items unlike most of these games, and your hand needs to be able to contain them. But I still stand by the stance that no hand limit is unhealthy for games, and this imo even apllies to items. Players SHOULD get punished for not playing cards imo, this also changes the flow of the game towards more proactivity, which is a good thing imo. The one thing that needs to change about the overdraw pile though is, that you need to see which cards are in it and in what order, but Im sure this will be a thing at some point.
7. For the last one Im gonna talk about a change thats fairly underrrated imo and therefore needs some attention, because it shows to me, that the devs DO KNOW their stuff about card games and are able to identify problems with the design, that dont get circlejerked in the community. Lets talk about why the armor changes are a nice improvement. One thing that the hero/item system in artifact brings with it is, that heroes over the course of the game can become unkillable behemoths, which feels really bad if youre on the other side of the board from that. This is still a thing in A2 by the way, which is for example why I think a card like Lady Anshu is somewhat problematic. The armor changes are a step in the right direction though. In A1 it felt like games were frequently coming to a point where instakill cards like Coup de Grace, Annihilation or Assassinate would become a neccesity, because key heroes couldnt be killed in other ways anymore, which is really bad for card balance. The armor changes are not the most important change in A2, but they are a step in the right direction. It always feels bad, and this still applies to A2, if you look at a hero and think to yourself "I will never kill this hero...", because it is either not possible or simply not worth the effort it would take to do so. This for example is my main problem with Tidehunter atm in A2. He is way too hard to kill for how annoying he is on the board, and that makes it pretty unfun to play against him.

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Things that you should/could change about A2:

1. Lets start with the mana system again. I think the mana system of having one mana pool for all the lanes is good and needs to stay. I also think that items and actives costing mana is a good change, because these chages reduce the stalling, but also create meaningful decision, because mana is a limited resource and you cant do everything you want in a turn, so you have to evaluate, which action is the best to take out of your options. Its still a common opinion here that people want to take more actions a turn and that high cost cards should have more impact in general. A solution or maybe its more fitting to say improvement for this that I would at least try is: Remove the courier and start the game with 4 mana. This can improve a couple of problems at once. First of all it is widely known that the current iteration of the courier is a bandaid and that it will be changed in some way in the future. But even if the courier becomes a standard game mechanic in the future and not a card, is that really good for the game? The courier as is, is a pretty confusing mechanic for players new to the game. I doubt that it would be more clear if the courier is not a card anymore, it will likely be even more confusing even if there is a visual indicator for it. Removing the courier and starting at 4 mana would be in net the same as having the courier and playing an item every turn, which from my experience you do not. So this change would not only mean that you remove confusion from the game, players would also have a little more mana to spend and they would get earlier into the turns where they can play high cost cards. So it at least adresses some of the problems the players are having currently. I think its worth a try.
2. The shop is a pretty hard one to solve and still has many flaws. Im gonna focus on the one that is the most prominent to me for now. This also ties back to why I think the secret shop was a dumb concept in A1. I know this is probably a controversial statement, but I think the shop still has too much RNG. Having random items pop up in the shop, when theres so many items that are straight up hard counters for certain strategies is just unfun in general and should never decide any games. In my perfect vision of the shop, the shop becomes a toolbox for you to have at your disposal, where you can put items that complement your strategy or disrupt the opponents strategy, IF and only IF, you have identified that you need answers to that strategy. So what I think is, that a player should be able to design their entire item deck if they wish to do so, and further doing this should be mandatory at least in official tournaments. Now this would never be a good addition to be mandatory in regular ladder play, because it would just create an inconvenience for players to add items to tiers they know they wont be using. So autofilling the items deck still needs to be a thing, especially in draft because you wont have enough items, but the item deck should not be random if the player piloting a constructed deck doesnt want it to be and on top of that all the items in the opponents and your deck should show up in the deck tracker even if they were generated randomly, so that you dont get blindsided by a hard counter that just happened to be in the opponents item deck without you knowing. Easy examples for that would be hooked net for creep based strategies, jasper daggers for decks with lots of crowd control or demagicking maul for tower enchantment based strategies. You should never lose to a randomly created counter in your opponents item without at least knowing its in there and you should not be able to counter anything in tournaments unless you decided you want to counter this specific strategy, thats a tleast my opinion. Now I know this is basically a debate about rng in card games, which is obviously needed, but even then the shop will still have rng over which items show up, just then all the items that could show up were chosen by you, and theres still draw rng and in draft your deck is also rng, I dont really think this rng is needed at all. Managing rng is an interesting concept, and A1 wanted to be that kind of game, but I dont think theres a place for that in the current market, and even if there was A1 just didnt execute this concept well enough to be succesful. Hearthstone and autobattlers are somewhat successful in that genre, but the harsh truth is, none of these games will ever get close to the behemoth that is Texas Holdem Poker. Truly the king of all rng management games, it offers benfits to lovers of this type of gameplay that even Hearthstone can only dream of. It offers way more money to you for being succesful in it, while also giving you a way bigger edge over your opponents, if youre good at it, while also being quite fun. Its hard to compete with THP for any of these games, when its just the obvious go to for rng-lovers. And I always hear this argument "But when we remove all the rng out of card games they will just become chess!", and I have to say, that is such a dumb argument its not even funny. Chess is a full information, almost all-skill-game. A card game could never hope to get anywhere close to that! The only rng in chess is the coinflip at the start of the game, thats it. In card games there will always be draw rng, which already puts like a 1000 times more rng in a card game then in chess, there will almost always be the fact that you cant see whats in your opponents hand, and in Artifact, even with the shop changes I suggested, there will always be shop rng. The compasison between A2, which reduced the rng significantly from A1, and chess is so far fetched, you need to be a complete moron to think thats even somewhat close to being accurate. The only thing this achieves is, that it gets further away from being a slot machine, which is a good thing at least for me. Im not a chess player personally, because its a bit too boring for my taste, but I would probably play chess if you could choose your own pieces out of like 50 different options, because thats basically what card games feel like to me, and why I like them in the first place. If they are executed well, they feel like some customizable version of chess with rng sprinkled in, these are the ones I want to play, the bad ones feel like slot machines, and those are the ones I stay away from. Whether you lean more towards the Chess or the THP side is a matter of personal taste, both are excellent games. What we need to understand though is, for a card game to be successful, it needs to have some legitimacy when compared to these games, because at the end of the day card games are in the same overall genre of strategy games. So the best case scenario is, that you position yourself somewhere in between those two, because no game can become successful by being a shitty ripoff of any of those two games ( except Hearthstone I guess, because they were the first digital card game with a masive IP behind them...). And I understand, that a lot of you are afraid that A2 will become a shitty version of chess, which I think we are still quite far away from, but I couldnt help but feel, that A1 already was a shitty version of THP, which made me not wanna play it.

OK, this is all I can think of for now. I probably forgot some things and I will edit them if I think they are important, but this needs to do for now. I hope this is some useful feedback, and I will of course be here and in other threads for discussion in the future. I hope this game becomes a success, even though the road there is still long and rocky. Devs keep up the good work!

I walked in and was immediately awestruck by the ornate interior of the best casino in the world, The Barterer’s Lounge. Some players were walking around with suits and escorts while other people looked like they had not eaten for days. My cohorts? Adam, Bart, Carl, David, and Erin. We decided to have a seat at a “Texas Holdem” table with someone waiting to play. This guy looked like he had just snorted cocaine, after a 2 day bender on whiskey, but hey, “When in Rome” right? Weird thing is, this guy was in a suit and had five escorts. Five! Judging by the sheer boredom of his lady friends, this dude clearly hasn't left this table in over eight hours.
The table seats six and the rules are very clear. At a new table: The only buy-in is allowed once at the beginning of the game. But you don’t have to pay the fifteen dollar entry fee in cash or otherwise until the end of the game. If you go out, only then do you have to pay the cash. We already knew this and we had plenty of cash for a trip to the casino. Woo! Adam had been saving for, jeez, over a decade? Adam’s been family friends since as long as I can remember. Who knows how old the guy is but he’s Bart’s dad and I love them both. Carl lives next door and we do some work from home but mostly sit at home playing some consoles drinking some beer and doing neighborhood poker with David and Erin. They’re an awesome pair. We all looked at one another and visually confirmed that we had exactly fifteen dollars in cash ready for the game because once you sit down, there is no turning back. Security has a person watching every individual one to one while sitting at a table. It is kinda creepy to have someone watching over you, but hey, I know the rules.
Carl and I were already doing a visual check on this guy and figured he’s too whacked out to be a smart player in this poker game. But he can obviously afford the buy-in so we were very happy to have a few more chips to pass around between the five of us at the end of the game. “Frank, you ready?” Carl asks. “Yeah, let’s rock,” I replied. We all sat down together and the player at the table eagerly agreed to play a game with us. Once we all agreed to play together, one of the security guards powered up the dealer. The automaton started whirring up and a few sparks flew from faulty wiring that obviously hadn’t been maintained in years. But if it works for the house, it works for me.
“Sir, this is a casino,” the robot said. I replied, “Duh,” and the dealer dealt our first two private cards each. Our extra player says “Hold on a sec, I want to make a side wager. I want to put a chip in saying that the old fart loses all his money on this first hand.”
The dealer mechanically screeches “This is a side wager separate from the game’s pot.”
We all looked at each other dumbfounded. “Does this guy even know the rules of Texas Holdem?” I thought. I looked at Carl and I knew that is exactly what he was thinking too. “Yea, I’ll call that for a chip.” We all threw a chip in. But not Adam. Why would he? He still has all his chips and as long as he doesn’t do anything stupid, or even bet at all, Kevin loses that bet.
Our extra player was turning out to be a real go-getter, so I wanted to do some small-talk to bring him off the game. “Hey, My name’s Frank. Yours?”
“Kevin,” he says abruptly between the twitches of his eyelids. “Hey Kevin, nice to play with ya dude,” I reply.
Kevin immediately says, “Hold on, I’ll bet another chip that the old man goes under this hand.” Easiest call of my life. Everyone throws another chip in because old man Adam ain’t no fool when it comes to poker. All he has to do is not wager “all-in” on a losing hand and we all get a few extra chips at the end of the hand. We all toss in that chip.
“Alright let’s get on with it,” Kevin barks at the dealer. The first three cards are shown and immediately Kevin wants to do another chip that Adam goes under this hand. We all call.
I ask him, “So what do you do, Kevin?” He says with a straight face, “Well if I’m not here I’m on my jet going between my five mansions.You know what, let’s put in another chip that Ole Yeller flops on this hand.”
I knew this guy was off his rocker and we didn’t care because everyone knows we’re all good for the money or else the “barter rules” come into effect. We all had visually checked our cash before we sat down. Well I don’t actually know about Kevin but I figure he’s good for it considering his escorts had all bought themselves Wendy’s chicken tenders from the food court on Kevin’s credit card.
Play resumes and Kevin puts a few chips on the actual game of poker this time. Adam does nothing, no surprise there. But the rest of us call Kevin’s position. Who knows what each other’s dealt hands are. I only know mine. “So five mansions huh? Nice,” I say. “You do anything else for fun?”
Kevin looks at me like he wasn’t expecting such filth to speak and disgustedly replies, “Well, I like my yacht. It’s got its own docking port for a smaller yacht. So you could say I’m into water sports.” After realizing he spent even a few seconds humoring me, Kevin shouts, “Let’s do three more chips in another side pot that the old man actually literally dies during the game.”
We all chuckled pretty good at that one and threw our three chips in each. “Let’s play.” Kevin demanded. “Show the next card,” he snarled. As the card lands on the table, Kevin bets ten more chips that Adam goes all-in on a losing hand. Seeing as this is the first round of the game and we all had the same chips at buy-in, it’s a no brainer match position for 10 chips. Meanwhile Adam is stone-cold poker face and hasn’t actually put any chips in on the opening three.
“Alright 15 chips on the play,” Kevin absent-mindendly said without even looking at the card. I noticed that he hadn’t even looked at his hand because his two cards were strewn out in front of him in the original place the dealer placed them.
Everyone but Adam plays Kevin’s bet and the showdown resumes. Well, almost resumes. “And I’ll put half of my remaining chips on my initial bet that pops loses all his chips this hand,” Kevin states. And guess what we all did? We called the bet because we’re all keeping track of how many chips were initially given out and this was a no-brainer that we were all on the same pace of losing chips. Except Adam of course because he hadn’t placed any bets so far. He was ready for a few actual full games of poker. I know he had more than only the fifteen dollar pay-out fee for a single game if he lost.
“And I’ll put the rest on my other bet that the boomer literally dies during this game.” We all blankly looked at each other and threw our remaining chips on that bet. But not Adam, why would he? He’s got all his chips from not even Adam’s old but he’s not on death’s door by any means. He lifted weights professionally in his earlier years and still does cardio daily. Naturally, he doesn’t look a day over fifty.
“We have an ‘all-in’ at the table” the junkbot for a dealer said and an extra set of lights flicked on at our table. They were so bright I was getting a terrible glare from an heirloom ring I had on my finger. I rotated the rock to the inside of my finger and made a fist so the glare wouldn’t blind me.
The robot dealer plays out the last card but it doesn’t matter to Kevin or anyone else because we’re all-in. “The player who placed the initial bet shows their hand,” says the dealer.
And we all waited patiently. We sat together in silence for what seemed like forever.
Until Kevin’s casino-assigned agent realized that Kevin was too coked out to do it himself.
“A two of hearts and a seven of clubs from the initial bet maker.” The dealer continues, “There are no additional plays on the field for the bet maker. The player with the best hand wins.”
I only had a pair of three of hearts and a four of diamonds in my hand.
Carl immediately turns his cards over. “A pair of sixes with another on the table. That’s three of a kind.” We all split the earnings of the initial side bet amongst ourselves minus Adam. And since Adam still had a pulse we all split the second pot too. “This game is closed. All players must pay their cash fee for the round. If any players do not have the cash initially agreed upon to enter the game, barter rules come into effect,” the dealer said. We all reached into our pockets and put the fifteen bucks on the table. Kevin reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out a ten dollar bill and a half eaten chicken tender. Kevin frantically searches his other pockets for any cash on his person. “Oh shit,” Kevin muttered as his face turned pale. “I must have spent my cash last night when I was more drunk.”
I perk up a bit because I had no idea that there was even a chance to trigger the barter rule with this guy. The dealer asks, “Do you accept the remaining payment of meat to cover the remaining five dollars of this player’s entry fee?” “Hell no!” I shouted. “I want a million bucks, and one of your houses.”
Bart finally chimes in and says, “Me too. Oh yea and I want your jet.” Carl agrees and adds “And the yacht!” David says, “Don’t forget the mini-yacht too.” Erin says, “I know you have a nice car, We’ll take that too.” Kevin slumps into his chair as the dealer asks, “Are there any other terms to this agreement?” We all looked at each other and Adam added, “And an order of tendies all around. But not for Kevin.”
That was a bad move, Kevin.

In early decade of 20s and before that, 7-card stud game was the officially acclaimed popular poker game across the world. Soon, after with boom of Texas Holdem took the crown from the 7-card stud and became quite popular for both land-based and online poker rooms by the late 2000s. This game has gained popularity at such an enormous rate that today players consider it as a sport professionally.
The reason behind its brewing popularity is its ease to learn gameplay and faster turnaround time to play one hand. Texas Holdem Poker happened on one of the casino streets of Las Vegas in the late 60s. Player, bill Boyd took the responsibility of training the fellow players and since then, the Texas Holdem started spreading gradually. Soon after the Poker Boom where cable TV started streaming the poker game live transformed the poker game industry completely and now, Texas Holdem is the highly preferred poker game and its popularity is the mark for poker game development company.

Why Texas Holdem Gaining Popularity Than Other Poker Variations?

Though Texas Holdem doesn’t have any other variant in competition but Omaha Poker comes next in terms of popularity where players receive four hole cards, instead of two. The demography plays a critical role here as Americans prefer Texas there Europeans took like to Omaha. Yet, we have seen full tables for Texas Holdem in online and land-based casinos which gets often amiss in Omaha. This clearly says neither Texas Holdem poker game development nor Texas Holdem game will lose its popularity anytime soon. The reasons are as

1. Easiest poker games to learn, grasp and play.

Texas Holdem gameplay prepares the foundation of the basics of the poker game.
Though, Omaha has similar rules as Texas Holdem put but the decision to opt the two out of four hole cards makes the game exciting yet confusing, Even expert poker game developers concludes that Omaha poker game development is much more challenging than texas holdem poker game development. Few players still find seven-card stud easy where as the argument pulls this statement off is Texas Holdem comprises lesser streets and it becomes easier to determine who is going to act first on each street.

2. Texas Holdem Poker Game Has the Players of The Best-in-Class

The new players are looking to get training with strategy development to improve their poker game skills. This skill-building is evidently helpful for the games of Omaha and other poker game variants.
This is why these poker game variants comprise of great professional players which makes Texas Holdem a great gaming space for all levels of poker players from novice to veterans.

3. Texas Holdem Poker Game Development Could Become A New Trend in Gaming Industry

With the constant transformation in the poker game industry with technology, poker bot development, improved gaming experience, chat and immersive communication mediums among the pool of poker players, it seems we will be witnessing more variations in Texas Holdem poker game development.
Texas Hold’em is simply a game of plain strategy with more complexities and challenges, that allure new players to never get tired out of the game. It can be foreseen that in the coming few decades, Texas holdem poker will still be ruling over the other poker game variants.
You can also be a part of this evolving industry immediately, all you need is to buy a poker game app or rent a poker portal from the best Texas Holdem poker game development company.

CE Meh QQ has become one of the most popular chat rooms on the Internet. You may also have heard of it by its former name, Chateau Prague. The team behind this amazing online poker room has put in a lot of hard work and dedication to bring you great cemen qq software that will allow you to play poker online at your level, and improve your game. When you join any cemen a room, you are given a small code to enter into your online poker account, which then allows you to play against many other players at the same skill level as yourself.
It is actually very easy to get started and make money from cemen Quay. If you are familiar with basic poker rules, all you need to do is click on the search button and type in "ceme qq". The results will be over 50 pages worth of different poker sites where you can choose from. If you are new to playing poker, I highly recommend you start off with one of the beginner poker rooms. These sites offer great beginner poker strategies that will help you learn the ins and outs of the game.
When you first start learning to play, you should probably concentrate on learning the most basic hands or those that deal with both flops and hands. There are usually a lot of experienced players on these smaller tables so you won't have to worry about losing money unless someone makes a huge bet and there aren't many other good players. Once you've mastered the basics of cemen you can then focus on getting a better understanding of the actual game of poker by studying the correct playing techniques. That's where a lot of the fun comes in for me.
There are three game variations of cemen poker. The full tilt game is the fastest paced of the three. There you must be able to decide whether it is in your best interest to fold, raise, or bluff your way to a win. Full Tilt is a lot of fun to play and the action can get really fast. The downside is that you must be able to manage your time well if you want to be successful at playing this version of the game.
The slow paced Full Tilt style is much more relaxed. You will spend a lot more time watching the other people play than you will playing. This slower paced game requires you to be observant and also to have some idea of how the pot will break down. I prefer playing slow and medium paced full tilt games as it allows me to better determine when to make the right plays. I will also generally fold when I have already committed to the bet and I have a feeling I will lose money if I stay in.
You can also find other variations of the game such as the mini-play or the Texas Holdem. Mini-plays are a great way to learn how to play without spending any money until you feel comfortable enough to move up to more challenging poker games. The rules for these are usually the same as regular full tilt games, but you may end up taking more risks because the stakes are smaller. Texas Holdem games are also a lot of fun to play and often a good venue to develop a poker chip collection!

"Please choose your game, Sir", Val inquired.
I looked around, choosing what will I play. I only had 1 chance to start...
"What happens if I lose the first one?", I asked.
"You will simply be ejected from the Church, without your memories of the place intact", Val explained.
Fair enough. I set my eyes on a poker table, Texas Holdem. I thought I would be able to win easy enough at it.
I placed my bet of the gold coin, in exchange for 2 cards; a set of Queens. I maintained my poker face but inside I was stoked at my great hand. I won that round easy enough with 3 of a kind.
"Okay, now do we keep betting on the gold coins or...?", I asked the dealer only to be met by his silence.
"Keep playing and you will understand, Sir", Val said standing behind me.
I shrugged and was dealt another hand. The King of hearts and Jack of spades. When the river card was revealed to be the 10 of diamonds, I had a Straight in my hand. I looked at my only remaining opponent, some old Chinese guy.
"Your bet, Sir?", the dealer asked him.
"I bet my hearing"
I was confused, "Hearing? What does he mean?"
"Exactly as it sounds, Sir. We don't bet on materialistic thing here, only what you have. The truly valuable thing a human can have, their own body and its function", Val explained.
I was stunned.....and extremely thrilled. Oh I never expected the stake to be this dangerous! I was smiling inside, but maintaining my poker face again I called the bet.
My Straight trumped his 3 of a kind. I won! All of the sudden the old Chinese guy stood up, flailing his arms panicking.
"No...no! Where...where's the sound? I can't hear!", he screamed only to be escorted away by some guards. I laughed a bit.
The night went on and I kept playing different games. I lost some fingers, the ability to say the word "Frog", and a kidney. But in return I won some guy's ability to speak German and an extra heart. This was it! This was the thrill I was seeking for!
"Hey Val, is there like a higher stake room in the Church?", I asked Val. There's always a more exclusive table where people of higher status play. And I want in...
Val looked at me sternly. He moved his finger to his earpiece, seemingly being told something by someone.
"This way, Sir", Val said leading me to the very end of the large hallroom. Beyond the door was a small room about the same as the first waiting room. In there sat a table, with no one else but a man at the other end of it.
"Welcome Mr. Parish. I've been expecting you", the man said.
I noticed Val had left the room. Confidently I walked to the table, sitting opposite the man.
"I'm expected?"
"Of course. An honorable player such as yourself can't escape my sight"
"Who are you?"
"I'm the owner"
"The owner....you're Saint Cajetan", I said more of a statement than a question only to be met by him nodding.
"So, you seek of the highest stake of game. Here we are. Choose your game"
"Let's play poker, Texas Holdem", I suggested. Again the saint nodded.
"What do you say we make this more interesting? Blind bet. You will not know what you lose or gain when you win or lose", he suggested.
Honest, I was afraid to do so. But the rush and the thrill blinded me of what the repercussion might be. Almost immediately I agreed.
The game went underway. Without knowing I had lost the sight of one of my eye and the satisfaction of sneezing. But I won the ability to taste a flavor unknown to man, which was really interesting I might add.
"Well it's been very exciting evening, Mr. Parish. But what do you say we make the next one our last? The ultimate bet of the Church will be the stake", the saint asked.
The ultimate bet....I loved the sound of that. What could it be? I agreed.
I got a great hand then, a set of Kings.
"Do you know want to know what the ultimate bet is?", the saint asked all of the sudden.
I looked up, clearly not knowing the answer to that. He clearly was trying to rattle me.
"This place, Mr. Parish is a casino located outside of space and time. It cannot be built on simple material things such as bricks and cement. It needed something more powerful, much much more powerful"
First 3 cards were revealed, the King of clover, the 2 of diamonds, and the Ace of spades.
"I thought centuries ago, what could be so powerful it can create the foundation of something this absurd.....then it hit me. Human beliefs, Mr. Parish.
The capability of human to believe is so powerful it created religions, it took them to the sky, it took them across the ocean, it took them to the moon"
The 4th card revealed, the King of diamonds.
"So every now and then, I invited the best players in human history and get them to see this place. It started as mere illusion, but as I took their belief of this place's existence it strengthened its foundation. Turning it from a mere concept to reality.
In turn without their belief they would no longer remember this place and they will never set foor here ever again."
I was stunned at the saint's absurd story. Needless to say I was rattled. My resolve was shaken. Now silent he revealed the 5th card.
"Show your hands, Mr. Parish", he said.
No, no, I can't lose! I have 4 Kings! I can't lose!
"4 Kings!", I declared sure of my victory.
My face dropped immeditately however, seeing his face smirking. Looking down the final card was another Ace....and the saint had the other 2 Aces.
"4 Aces beat 4 Kings unfortunately, Mr. Parish"
I slumped back on my chair, defeated. For some reason the thought of not being able to play in that place again disturbed me so much. My pride as a gambler was taken down a notch.
"So....you'll take my belief now? Erase my memories?", I asked weakly.
The saint however chuckled, "Oh not quite. Throughout the night I saw you out there. There's a thing that you hold really dearly more than you yourself know, and it's the most powerful thing I've ever seen a human possess. I want that thing"
I sat up, "What is it? Tell me!"
"Tsk tsk remember Mr. Parish. Blind bet", he said waving his finger.
I couldn't remember much after that. I must have blacked out. The next thing I knew I woke up on my bed in my bedroom in the morning. I was inside the Church for hours but being outside of time itself, it's only been less than 4 hours in here. I woke up at 7am. Clearly still remembering my experience. And that gave me dread. What did Saint Cajetan take from me?
As per usual I sat in front of the computer with my breakfast, playing more online poker. It was my favorite game after all.
Strange....$100, $500, $2000, $10000 even...I couldn't feel excited for winning. I panicked...what was wrong with me? I bet more and more and more, despite winning I couldn't feel...anything.
I fell onto the floor, defeated. I realized then...that was what the saint had taken. The thrill...the thrill I loved so much was taken away from me.

Poker has been enjoying a period of a boom since a very long time. Many people play a game of cards by going to casinos and gambling venues. But now, it is played worldwide on an online platform at an international level.
If you also want to play this thrilling game of fate, then you must start to know more about poker and its variants such as Texas Holdem poker. Once you are confident of your skills on the table, you can take your game to another level by playing online poker real money. There are many poker websites where you get an opportunity to play many poker variants and earn big money too.
Real money poker
What do you think was the idea behind the poker game? It was real money where people could earn money in cash and get a real sense of satisfaction. This is what that separates poker from other types of sports or games. All the poker players play this online card game to earn something. There are no spectators here; instead, everybody is involved in this power-packed and action-based game which attempts to leave the game only after winning a prize.
Real money earning games in India has been becoming profusely famous where players get a chance to win big prizes and cash. Once you login to the poker website, you will be able to check out the kinds of poker game played, what are the different poker hand rankings, how is Texas Hold’em tournament held, which is the most popular form of poker online, how to win in the online cash games in India, etc.
All you need to do is to register yourself on the poker website and get to see a ton of rewards such as registration bonus, welcome bonus, sign-up reward, etc. to play real cash games.
Texas Holdem poker
Every game has its most popular game type, and the favourite poker type is Texas Hold’em. Poker has several games under its umbrella, but the most popular form of poker remains to be Texas Hold’em poker.
Texas Hold em poker is such a popular form of poker that when you mention playing poker at the table, the people will automatically assume that you are talking about the game of Texas Hold em poker. The reason is that it is effortless. You can easily understand the different poker hand rankings it has, the kind of poker strategies it needs, betting structure and so on is very simple to understand and implement.
In the poker website, you can join this best Texas Hold’em poker game. If you don’t know how to play this game, you can learn how to play Texas Hold’em online in detail and on the poker website itself.
Inference
Poker is a game of both luck and skill. You need to learn the rules and strategies that can help you form the best poker hand so that you can win the pot.

As a beginner poker player, one of the first lessons you are given about the game of cards is regarding Texas Hold’em. Poker is a game of skill where luck is a factor, and an endless number of nuances surrounds all of this. Learning all the complex variables in poker will take you years of experience. However, one right way to get started would be to start with the game of Texas Hold’em. How to play Texas Hold’em? The volume of variations that poker has to offer is genuinely confusing to choose from for a beginner. Besides, each variation can be played in several different formats.
As a newbie, your should get all your basics right so that you can then build on a secure foundation and have a complete rapporteur that a successful poker player would need. Texas Hold’em, which happens to be the most popular form of poker played worldwide and live, offers a wholesome experience of the action at the table. Through Hold’em games, you can get a taste of all the flavours that poker has to offer. From betting patterns to basic strategies and considering your bankroll management, you learn it all. Let us take a brief look at this game’s format.
Poker Hand Rankings and Table Actions
The idea of winning the pot in a game of Texas Hold’em is to have yourself the best possible five-card poker hand at the table. Poker Texas rules make use of the universally recognized 10 poker hand rankings, and those are the Royal Flush, Straight Flush, Four of a Kind, Full House, Flush, Straight, Three of a Kind, Two Pair, Pair, and High Card ranked from highest to lowest significance.
The poker actions you make determine the result of the game, and the cards you hold are detrimental to the same. You can call to match the amount of the existential bet, you can raise to add to it out of confidence, or you can fold if you think you aren’t in a position to bet. Checking is not always an option, but when it is, you can use it to have the action move past you without folding.
Texas Hold’em Rounds
To begin with, you have the pre-flop round where you are given your two-hole cards, and the first blinds are posted to start betting. The small blind is half the amount of the big blind for most cases. Play begins from the big blind in a clockwise direction, and table positions change with each round. In the flop, three community cards get revealed. One new community card is shown in each, the turn and river rounds. Hold’em games are played with anywhere between two to 10 players. After the turn, those left in hand proceed to the showdown where the one with the best five-card poker hand wins the game.
Inference
Being the most popular poker game, learning Texas Hold’em poker rules is a necessity for those wanting to play the game at a severe level. Of course, things can get tricky when you are playing MTTs with Hold’em, but with time and experience, you should be able to make the most out of your skills.

I've been playing cards for well over a decade now and I've been beating the game regularly for years. My father introduced me to the game when I was young and when I turned eighteen I hit the road traveling while working for a construction company. I'd play whenever and wherever I could all over the country. Been to every major casino from Foxwoods to Hard Rock and all throughout the west coast where I've called home for a while now.
It's all the same everywhere I've gone though. Live poker players are TERRIBLE. One of the best parts about it is the fact that a lot of them will openly acknowledge that what they're doing is going to lose them money in the long run and they still do it. Often gambling for hundreds of dollars with only a 30% chance of winning the hand. That means in that specific situation you're winning 7 out of 10 times.
And that's where I come in. If you put me in a position where I can be there when this happens then I can make us both a decent amount of money.
For those who don't know, the most important part of being a professional poker player who makes a living playing the game is bankroll management. You can be the best player in the world but if you don't have enough money to withstand the downswings then you will go broke. Even Vegas doesn't win 100% of the time.
This has always been what has kept me from playing the game for a living and taking it seriously. I've never had the proper bankroll or bankroll management because I didn't need it and it's led to some crazy situations.
There was one stretch of time when if I won at 1/3 with $300 at risk I'd go play 2/5 with $1000 at risk. If I'd win at 2/5 I'd play 5/10 with $2000 at risk. This of course is a recipe for eventual disaster but it did provide me with a good amount of insight into the variety of players at different stakes. Surprisingly enough I didn't really see too much of a difference between people gambling for $100 or people gambling for $5000. It's all relative and there was always still at least one player at the table making MASSIVE mistakes.
So I'm really hoping I can find some bored rich person with money laying around doing nothing. Or better yet, someone who is actually familiar with the game who might have their own stable in the Houston area.
If you're the former then the way this would work is, you would give me the money to go play in whatever game you're comfortable staking me in and whatever profits I make are divided evenly between the two of us. I'm even willing to start at a better rate for you, maybe something like 60/40.
The games can range from $300 up to whatever you can imagine. Mostly in the range of $500, $1000 and $5000. The higher the stakes, the more money we make.
This is gambling, so the profits we make will vary widely over a short period of time but as long as we continue to make correct decisions while others are making the wrong decisions then our profit margins will begin to level out at a sustainable positive win rate.
The following applies to Texas Holdem. Omaha winrates are substantially higher but the variance is overwhelmingly high.
With $300 at stake my winrate is roughly $30 an hour.
With $500 at stake my winrate is roughly $50 an hour.
With $1000 at stake my winrate is roughly $70 an hour.
That means that if you put me in a $500 game 40 hours a week I can generate $8,000 a month in profit that we can split and have a nice extra bit of change in our pockets. Luckily for us, there are plenty of games in Houston and there is plenty of action just waiting for us.
This isn't even considering poker tournaments this could lead us to where 1st place is hundreds of thousands of dollars. I know for a fact I can crush these games man, it's honestly laughable how easy it is to beat live poker. All I need is the stake so let's do this!
-Roy
Edit: I guess I should clarify, I'm not looking for some quick Cashapp/PayPal transaction. I'm looking to find someone and build a relationship with them to the point where they are 100% comfortable with whatever arrangement we come up with. I really don't even care what it is. You wanna come over and hang out, have some BBQ with me and my family? Fuck it. I realize the ever looming absurdity in this sort of proposition which is why I'm willing to make sure you're comfortable and I also realize how much of a long shot this is but fuck it. Lifes short.

A simple online search on the keyword 'starting poker hands guide' reveals that there are a number of such basic poker guides; which is just as well, as there are so many different forms of poker. Moreover, poker is a highly dynamic game, a game in which new developments are coming up by almost every passing half a decade (although the fundamentals, of course, never seem to change); so that basic poker guides that might have looked great in the early 90s might not really provide the information a person getting introduced to poker in today's age of online poker would be looking for.
The journey towards choosing the ideal starting poker hands guide has to begin with the (potential) player working out what type of poker they are really keen on playing - as there are different types of poker, from the popular Texas Holdem rules poker to the lesser known forms of the game like 'carbon poker.' As it turns out then, the ideal starting poker hands guide for someone who is keen on Texas Holdem rules poker might not be the ideal starting poker hands guide for someone who is keen on say, carbon poker.
Indeed, the more specific a potential poker player can be about the type of poker they are considering playing, the better their chances of getting the ideal guide for their purposes. Someone who is really keen on Texas Holdem rules poker, for instance, will tend to discover that there is still a variety of Texas Holdem rules varieties they can specialize in, an example of which is for instance the preflop strategy; which is considered by many authorities to be the best way to get introduced to Texas Holdem poker.
Should one start out looking for a starting poker hands guide, then narrow down their search to a particular variety of poker (say poker starting hands guide for Texas Holdem), and then further narrow down their search to a particular strategy in Texas Holdem - say to a guide on the preflop poker strategy, then they have chances of getting a highly specialized poker starting hands guide that can provide them with highly specialized information, which if well practiced, can turn them into poker specialists on that particular type of poker they happen to have so gotten inducted into.
The fact that there exists highly specialized poker guides (like the preflop poker strategy guide mentioned earlier, which deals with one particular strategy in one particular form of poker) means that the starting poker hands guides are not a preserve of novices looking to learn and try their very first hands in poker, but also experienced poker players seeking to enhance their knowledge of poker - since poker is a very extensive and 'quite brainy' game; of which no one can honestly say they know everything about.

I have my google drive if anyone would want that by any means just let me know ill shoot it over to you so you can have the DOC. also set to CONTROVERSIAL.
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Death to who you think you are
Chapter one: The briefing
If we want to get the feeling of the beginning we have to start from the real beginning. I don’t remember the real age but I was very young. We shall say somewhere from one to two. I got to spend time with my real father and that leads down a bad path. From what I was told, being older that is. I had gotten soap in my eye and I cried nonstop and my dad hit me in the face. Now, this wasn’t some normal hit or love tap of being out of order. This was a young baby with now a fractured skull and an innocent child that now will start his journey in life on the wrong foot. My mother took my real father out to court over custody and needless to say he did not show and my mother had taken me home safe from something every happening again. We can kind of fast forward from this point to about the age of four to five. My life consists of my mother, my grandfather and my grandmother. My mom at this point had brought me around a lot of people and for me being a kid I didn’t know a lot, but we never went around someone I shouldn’t be around. But then my mother brought this guy around. We shall call him Lewis. he was a cool guy we got along well with and with me not having that father figure around it was cherished in a way that not a lot of people will get. Towards the end of me being my five-year-old self, my mother had gotten married to Lewis. It was a beautiful wedding and my mom was herself, everything just seemed right as a child, happiness is simple when you are that age I guess. We had lived in a small town in a house that my mother had purchased around the same time as the wedding, also along with that was a few brand new cars. Life was good as a child at least that’s what it looked like. The next few years flew past I had a new father and my mother was happy just everything was right. Now first thing’s first I was not a super poor child or I mostly got what I wanted being an only child. But as little as I knew things were going to change and I had no idea.
Around the age of ten is when things started to fall out of place and was a downward spiral until I started my new journey. My mother never had a good record with health but that goes for most of us in the family. She had suffered from numerous strokes and back issues due to a car accident that changed her life. Many hospitals and doctors’ offices had been visited with the journey I’ve taken with my mother. But we shall also get deeper into that. At this time in life, my mother was going through changes that I did not understand. She was sick and also trying to have a baby some time went on and things seemed well with my mother but something inside as a kid told me things were only starting and boy was I right. Around this time of me being nine to ten my mother had lost over ten miscarriages, I mostly don’t know the real reasons why that was but I’m sure if I wasn’t told correctly it was to make it seem like everything will be okay in the end. But many times I knew about having a sibling and sometimes it was just oh the stork or something didn’t make it, you know the things we were all fed as kids so we just didn’t ask questions. Finally, a miracle for my mother and Lewis happened. They got pregnant with my younger sister. That was a long 9 months with my mother for sure. But once my sister was born there were problems that I didn’t understand fully. She had been put on a machine that was attached to her heart, as a kid, this was terrifying to see someone you love in that situation because as myself-going through something life-changing likes that. At this age is when I started getting “Stuck in my head”. My grandfather raised me showing me to always be observant and have your back to a corner so no one can come up from behind you. At a young age, I was taught a lot in a short time. Because on top of my mother having issues and my grandmother was also sick at the same time with this thing called cancer that I had no idea what it was or how harsh of a thing it was. But at that age, I realized something was wrong. Wrong… I started spending time with my grandparents more and more and I wouldn’t leave their side. That’s when I had realized these are my parents and my haven. Now don’t get me wrong my mother is my mother and I will love that woman no matter what I say or do. But she also knows what I mean by this statement and as for most of you know that’s just how having grandparents is. At this time I committed my time to my grandmother though. Like I had friends and stuff in school but nothing meant more to me than going to see her after school or on the weekend just honestly any time. I was learning so much from her how to cook, clean, do laundry or even just something like gardening. I was learning so much at such a fast pace I was blinded to the fact that this woman, my haven, my grandmother was dying and I had not the slightest clue. In this short time of ten to about twelve is where I learned how to become an adult very early. I was on a mission and I had no idea.
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Chapter two: The blindfolded truth
In the time of me being around my grandmother, I have seen things people will never see in their lifetime and things that you couldn’t even process in your head. This section will be about my Grandmother and just my journey with a woman who was the purest person you could ever meet.
The time of realizing my grandmother was sick I picked up even harder on being there making sure she knew I loved her. Around when I did start to notice was when she started losing her hair. To me, she was still a beautiful woman no matter how she looked because her soul was so pure you could just feel it in the atmosphere around you. You can see the sickness in her eyes, you can see the thoughts, the worry and the pain. But she never broke character; she never let us know how much it bothered her. Until one afternoon she had gone into the bathroom. She had collapsed and I had heard it. I ran to that door as fast as I could but it was locked. I had no response from her but I knew I needed to get in here. I knew this was not good. Soon my mother and grandfather came to help. We got that door open and we had many smelling salts planted around the house and this was a time we had to use one. As my grandmother laid there hopeless, unconscious and looking lifeless my heart dropped emptiness grew inside my head and my heart and my soul started to feel like it was being torn out of me. I had to have been around the age of ten to eleven when this had happened. It was all like a daze, something that wouldn’t go away as the EMS got there and they had stabilized her enough to get her to the hospital. Across this time frame this was very normal she lived at chemo or the hospital or doctors. The chemo at this rate had been burning her because of how often and strong the treatments were. My grandmother used to sit there and not be coherent or not know who she was or sometimes the grandkids or her husband. We all understood though. We all knew this was going to be a long ride or this was going to end soon and none of us wanted that to happen. She was progressively getting sicker and there was nothing I could do about it. We moved forward and did all the things we needed to do for her and as a family we were one of the strongest families around no questions asked. One day she had gotten a call or was at the hospital or something along with that nature and she was told that the doctor that had done her test reading had read it wrong and she was given the wrong treatments of chemo. (Leukemia lymphoma) Fill with info!).
So for that time of around 2 years of treatments they were treating her wrong and with that kind of treatment being wrong they were just put here in a microwave and frying her. By this time there wasn’t very much to do. There was only one shining light of hope and it was this amazing doctor from Pittsburgh that took care of my grandmother. She trusted this man to save her life, as did we all. All within a month, we had to film a documentary with the attorney that was handling the case with my grandmother and that’s when we all kind of knew this wasn’t going to end well. After all the filming and stuff was done it had started to run into the holidays and man they just were not the same and you could tell. She had been in Pittsburgh at this time staying in a hotel room right across the hospital where it was filtered air and just everything was super clean. Her prepping had come to an end and it was time.
The family gathered at west Penn before the surgery. The drive was quiet but I knew everyone was just in their thoughts as was I. I had hoped due to the percent that she had told us of making it through it all. Which to us kids was around 80 percent; you know something to make it easier on the grandkids to understand. We all gathered in this waiting room and the room filled with silence for a bit you can just feel the tension in the room and that’s not what my grandmother wanted. She wanted us to be ourselves, talk and be a family and we did it just to break the ice. We all know my grandmother was the one to break that ice. We all talked and the time we had seemed so short but all said and done it was time to go. My mother and I wanted to stay just in case we needed to be here. But my grandfather was not having it he wanted everyone to go home and relax for the night. Remind you if something happens we are an hour plus away. Well, Lewis had calmed my mother down to the point where we all went home. The night grew old and sitting in my room thinking she will be okay I'll just call her tomorrow. Now, this is where the nightmare became a reality. I had woken up early to dead silence, my stomach turning and head spinning, it felt like a movie a haze filling the room but not just the feeling there is. I walked downstairs to my mother making coffee and I just remember looking at her and I said I don’t feel right something is wrong, she also had the same feelings. Shortly after the phone rang, it was like a horror movie. She raced to pick up the phone and it was my grandfather. Mostly all that was said to me was we needed to get the whole family there as quickly as possible. We scattered and collected the family and drove my mother to make it there in around a half-hour to forty-five minutes. We pulled in and I had my great grandmother in a wheelchair. We rushed to where we needed to be in no time. As we got to the final stretch to see her my heart was racing hands shaking. My heart slows as we approach
The room. I see these women in this bed that I had no idea who she was. I had thought maybe I had the wrong room or something. I just remember looking at the nurse and saying that isn’t my grandmother. She had gained a massive amount of water weight and she was attached to this machine with all these clear tubes running a tank and in that tank was the blood that was being cycled out and back in because her body couldn’t do it by itself. We were told she can hear but she cannot respond or open her eyes. A large part of me died in a matter of minutes. A cold shiver went up my spine rapidly into my brain and everything lost colors and feelings and it got really cold. We were pulled into another room to talk to the doctor about what was going on and what had happened and you can tell a lot of hate and anger went right to him in the room. But as we were explained she crashed the percent we were all told was indeed super low the real percent was only five and she had made it through that five percent chance. The issue was cancer got so bad it had taken over and this is where a choice changed the lives of many.
One thing I will never wish someone has to do is to choose someone if they live or die. The switch of never seeing someone again, seeing their smile or feel the love from someone again. While they made this decision I got to spend a few last moments with her to where she could hear me. Things no one has ever heard but us two. Those things didn't let anyone forget her. I was sorry if I didn’t say I loved you enough and that I’ll take care of grandpa. I just don’t want you to go but it will be okay and if you can’t do it by yourself it is okay to let go someday we'll all understand. At that moment she squeezed my hand with all she had in her and a tear fell from her eye. I knew it was time I knew this was the goodbye that I had nightmares about sleepless nights. Shortly my mother returned and we talked to her some more and then the rest of the family had said their goodbyes. As I sat there in my chair in the waiting room I waited and waited and then the real meaning of empty had filled me, a ring in my ear it had felt like I watched my heart and mind get sliced in half before me. The room filled with silence again and the ringing stopped…
She was gone but she had let go before the machine had been turned off and you could tell. Peace had filled the air for just a brief minute knowing she had never had to deal with the pain and suffering. But the anger and hate grew with the pain and my head was spinning and I just couldn’t believe it, I didn’t want to believe it. What seemed like maybe a half hour I was with my grandfather helping him collect her things and her from the apartment they were staying at once we had all of the things we had left. The drive had felt like hours and hours had gone by not much was said not many tears were shed either. We all had finally gathered at their house. Blank faces across the room, silent tears running slowly down everyone's faces. No one knew what to say. You can tell everyone wanted to comfort one another but you just couldn’t find the words to speak. Some of what happened is just a blur to me. The next thing I know we arrived at the funeral. Smelled of overpowering perfume, you can feel that certain people did not belong here. You can tell my mom was losing a grip on reality; she hadn’t eaten much, slept or even showered much. She wanted my grandmother’s funeral to be perfect and it was as perfect as it could have been. The day went on and it was our times to say our final goodbyes. The effect was kicking in at this rate the women, my mother, my grandmother, and my hero was gone. She would never get to see me grow up, graduate or even get married and have kids someday. MY life had felt like nothing but over. I don’t remember much at the time of burying her. I mostly stayed in the car. We had stuck around my grandfathers for a while every day in and out eventually he had won the lawsuit against the hospital and the doctor that had made the mistake of his life. I don’t remember the exact numbers but the set amount was a million dollars after taxes, lawyer fees and all that he still has a decent amount left. My mother and her two brothers received a good chunk of money out of this from my grandfather. Everyone did something good with it and did well with the money for the most part. But there was another turning point in life that we didn’t know was about to happen.
Chapter Three: The distraction
My grandfather is a hell of a man. That man would give you the skin off his back. He has also taught me about life and god and hunting just all the things a father would teach their child. My grandfather was in a car accident when I was very young. He was bedridden for some time; he worked down at the steel mill; he was one of the big guys down there. He claims to me that I was the reason he wanted to make it through the pain and suffering to live. He says I saved his life and I see that but little does he know he is what kept me alive all these years as a person. He was the father I never had. That man put his life into me and I’ve also done the same as best as I can. But when my grandmother had passed away he had felt an empty feeling that I will never understand and neither will anyone else in this world. It was his wife, his partner, his everything and she was just gone. He always had a good poker face but little does he know he taught me to be so observant that I can feel things in a matter of seconds I can feel things by looking into people’s eyes. But his poker face became a part of his life. He had gone to Vegas numerous times to play Texas Holdem and slots. He had gambled his pain away and no money in the world can ever take that pain away. You can’t replace that feeling no matter how hard you try. At this time I was trying to be around and be his grandson but I also was failing myself. I gave up on myself. So instead I started a new thing. I took my pain and turned it into healing others since I knew I understood people more than they thought I could do this. Well, an incident happened where I forgot my grandfather was in Vegas for weeks. We had talked briefly and he had some scrap in the back. I was going to clean up the house so when he returned it had some life back in and we got to make a few bucks because he didn’t want the scrap money. When I had gotten out back the door was inched open I had told my friend to go out to the front just to make sure they didn't run out the front if there was someone there. I searched everywhere I could and no one was found. His girlfriend he now had which was only like 8 months after my grandmother’s death. Which we will cover that soon also. But anyway she had walked in and had asked why I was there and I explained myself and everything went bat shit crazy my mother showed up, mind you she hated this lady. Some arguments happened and my grandfather called in the middle of everything and he wanted all the keys back whoever had one and none of us were to step foot on the property. A while went on and I and he hadn’t spoken. But one night I and Lewis got into a very heated argument and I had packed my shit and went to the haven I thought I had. Only to get there and have him look me in my eyes and tell me I’m not welcome there. At that point, I hadn’t had anything. I was failing out of school. My mother wouldn’t leave her bed. Lewis was out cheating on my mother because of how mentally unstable my mother was. Now at this time frame, I had been running around with the wrong crew. People who stole didn’t have a home. I was around fifteen to sixteen getting drunk and smoking weed and just not giving a care in the world what happened to me. 2009 is when I knew I had been around the wrong people. One night I had gone to a party just for a birthday with some food and a fire. Towards the end of the night, some kid had flipped the table and knocked everything off the table well when I had gone to leave I had picked up all the stuff being respectful and one of the items was a wallet. Well, I had turned it over to the owner of the home and went on my way. Several days later I had been with my girlfriend at the time and I had received a phone call from a cousin. Asking how I was and what I was up to. Now my mother had just gotten off the phone with me and had told me to come straight home. When my cousin had asked I hesitated a while and asked where. Well, she had said the school is only 100 yards from my front door. So we went… As we pulled in there were people flooded in the parking lot and the jungle gym all familiar faces. As the car came to a stop we started a conversation. The names of these men will not be named for this. They know who they are. I was asked if I had seen a wallet and I had stated yes because I did. I told him what it looked like but I did not open it. I had handed it to the owner of the home and he was there. He looked at me and said listen he’s telling the truth I told you leave him alone. Something was screamed in the background and after that it was black. I remember thinking to myself I was dead there was no way I was getting out of this. Eventually, I had come to and all I have seen was my girlfriend over my body and she was getting hit over and over and over again it had been over 45 minutes and the worst part about it is. I had a whole text written to my mom to come over to the school and call the police but as I was hitting send it when I got hit in my face. Eventually, we had gotten away and driven. I couldn’t move. I felt super drunk but I just kept hearing he’s dead. I just closed my eyes and next I was being helped out of the car. This burst of energy exploded in me when I saw she was hurt. I also ran in the house and went right for the shotgun that was always in the closet. But it wasn’t there. It was already loaded in the back of Lewis’s car shortly after my grandfather had rolled into the parking area. I had gone to sit in the back of his car and he had all of his guns with him also. Shortly after that, the police had shown up with 2 of the men who had assaulted me. The anger I had I told that cop and them you had 1 minute to get off the property or id kill all 3 of them and not think twice of it. He had gone to turn them in and an EMS had shown up shortly after that. I wasn’t worried about myself. I knew I’d walk away. I was more worried about my girlfriend at the time. Which ended up being a total joke? I had over 10 blunt traumas to the head, slightly torn iris; I developed TMJ in the jaw neck and back problems due to how much I was beaten. But something in me wouldn’t let it be about me. I just couldn’t let it be about me. That’s not how I was raised. Well, I never returned to school because all of them went to the same school and having to deal with 46 individuals in a small area was not ideal for me. Also yes 46 people now 3 days after that had happened to me. The person who had stolen the wallet returned it to the owner of it. So now something that happened to me was pointless I had almost gotten killed over some paperwork for the military and around 10 dollars in weed. Needless to say, the people who deserved what they got did get what they had coming to them. My grandfather and I started spending time together again slowly and it was something that I needed but also was just me masking my real feelings towards my life and the situations I was in.
Chapter Four: Meeting darkness
At this point in my life, I had slowly figured out how to deal with depression and what I can do to make time pass. I accepted that I meant nothing. So I focused on everyone around me. I tried to help fix my mother, my grandfather also looked over my siblings in the mix. I had a girlfriend different one this time. I was around 23 to 25 at this point. She helped with the things wrong in my head and she created this weird feeling in my chest like you swallowed a napkin which sounds stupid but it’s a good thing. She was beautiful no matter what with makeup, without it didn’t matter this girl was smoking hot to me. Her eyes and smile were pretty weird too but it just fit with me. It felt like I met the person I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. But here was the major problem with that. My stupid ass didn’t realize I was just getting worse by bottling up my feelings and not expressing myself because let’s face the hard truth of this world. We Men Aren't the Way We Should Be. It’s called being the stableman and the men that grow up without a real father have to be the man of the house for their mothers. But anyway sorry about that rant just if you’re a dude reading this I get it and believe me express those feelings it draws people closer. So anyway I drained this girl she tried so hard to help me and I knew she loved me but when I felt she was trying to step into an area that no one was allowed my walls came right up. So I didn’t trust her. I began to not care anymore. I pushed her away like I had done to everyone in my life at this point. But when I realized in reality I was losing her, I panicked and tried everything in my will to get this girl back. But needless to say, she was gone. The pain grew and my brain felt too big for my head, like if I didn’t talk to someone or do something I was going to explode. This next part is a hard one for me to write down on paper let alone put out there for someone to read so bear with me while I try to explain some things. There are a few times I had almost taken my life 3 to be exact. The first one was after this stunt I had pulled on probably the best thing that had ever happened to me. I sat there one-night drunk. I had around 2 bottles of Smirnoff 100 proof vodka blue cap clear bottles. I was down at the dam around my house. I was in my lifted piece of shit jeep just existing. All I could think about was I mean nothing. I have no one, my family fell apart, my girl left, I didn’t have a job, I didn’t live. I lay in the water and went under holding my breath hoping to just fall asleep. Something weirdly pulled me, it felt like the tide had tugged me, it felt like hey you can’t do this get outta here. I sat on that beach for 4 hours and cried my night away. I knew this darkness in my head was getting worse. I knew I had lost control. Several days had gone by and things got better again for a little while. I didn’t want to die but no one wants to die. We just feel that way. Days grew to months which led to me getting a job working at FedEx. Now at this time I was doing pretty good and had money for a car and a job. It was all falling into place where I wanted it to be. As I spent while at FedEx I loved the job and just hated who I worked for with the contractor there. I just bought a brand new car. 2019 Civic sport with all blacked out everything SI wheels the whole nine-man…I felt on top of the world. My grandfather was in my life everyday. My mom was doing good. She had moved and was living in Florida with this new guy who wasn’t so bad. Dude just needs to open up to her but that’s none of my business I guess, whatever mom. Anyway, life was making sense. I just struggled with the fact that my grandmother was not there to see all the progress I had made. Also, I wish the girl who had left me was there to see all the steps I made to make my life better. Now notice that the last part of the sentence I made my life better not myself. I tricked my head once again into thinking everything was okay. Well, the girl had come back into my life shortly but again disappeared which hurt just as bad as the first time. This leads me into round 2 the time I thought my life was going to end. The same spot I go at the lake to go into my head I was there just thinking about I was just sitting there and over and over again in my head I said if I’m gone all the problems tied to me go away. Mind you I never told anyone where I was but somehow a friend showed up and talked to me and realized how hard I was crashing and falling. I owe that man my life debt I can never pay but oddly he related to me and understood some of the pain. So once again we are back on this train of I think I’m fixing myself but little did I know this was only me getting right back into the mix. Several months have passed and I have gotten a new job. Working with driving again and tires now. Easy job I loved , boss , was awesome, worked with a friend and coworkers was awesome, so once again I thought I was on track again mentally and physically. Now I have a new girlfriend, a sparky character. I think I was more into the feeling of having someone than anything because I thought I loved this girl. But one night I was down bowling with my grandfather and I had stumbled over and caught myself feeling hot and dizzy . I felt like I was going to just drop dead. But I dragged myself to my car and tried my hardest to make it look like I was okay truth be I couldn’t see anything driving to the hospital I just kept saying I’m dying kind of laughed with my sense of humor like really dude stroke while bowling’s going to take my ass out like this is how I go out? Fuck me right now I haven’t touched this subject because it’s still hard to deal with on a small scale but that’s strokes I have had 4 in total by the age of 25. Also on top, I’ve had 2 mini heart attacks. The time I’m speaking of is the 3rd one I’ve had. So I get to the hospital walk-in and check-in, I wait about 10 minutes for someone to see me and tell her with half of my body working I think I’m having a stroke. I said to that lady I’m one of those people who aren’t in a rush when it comes to my problems, shortly after I fell to the ground. I opened my eyes and I was in a room with a laptop and the man was talking to me about some pill he wanted to give me. I thought I was dreaming or hallucinating. I just remember him running simple tests of lifting my left leg and left arm. My face was sagging and I just can only help to remember thinking all these times I wished I was dead and I tried to fix them and this is it for me. I can hear the man in front of me but it was kind of like the faint echo of a voice. He said something along the lines of whatever this pill was to clean the clothes in my brain but if they were not in my head there was a small chance I would die on the table in 15 to 20 minutes. I rejected and took a deep breath. I leaned back and I tape played in my head from when I was little playing in the kitchen with my shadow to the moment laying in this bed that smelled like death and after 6 days I had returned to work. Now the reason I think I had the stroke is kind of selfish but is the only thing that makes sense is the most recent ex, not the one who left me because I was fucked in the head but one more after her. I was so stressed out I had lost her and I was losing my job and just once again just my whole life crashed and folded on top of me. I felt like fucking have died over and over again one day after the next the problems pile the bills stack the car gets repo’d I have a room a bed and a computer. I was in my prison and I had no way out even though the door was unlocked. It was like I was drowning in air and no matter how hard I breathed in I was running out of time. I had one friend by my side and that was my choice. I had pushed everyone away. I started smoking cigarettes again pack or 2 a day depending on the days I was smoking weed again but sadly that was my way out. I spent 4 months high every day from the time I rolled out of bed till I closed my eyes but see I was mellow I was happy I found a form of an inner peace that let me talk to my ego and sort something’s out of course I started small on the list of things I wasn’t so much worried about like a job and a car and all that those things come over time and work and right now I need to work on myself. So I was in this haze for these months and I learned a lot about myself and things I didn’t know I could do. I was getting my creativity back and my head was clearing and I just enjoyed who I was again. But this was the beginning of feeling good and happy and just flipping my world because the journey has only begun.

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Tradewars - Homeworld: Exterra Edition Lead one of the last Terran factions in the galaxy and defend your Homeworld! A unique deck-building board game for 1-4 adventurers. (Has currently earned $27,068 of $16,000)	169%	623	$43	05-30	kicktraq
Diceborn Heroes: A Co-op Dice Adventure Game 1-4 Player Co-op Dice Game inspired by Japanese RPG's. 60-90 mins. Ages 10 and up. (Has currently earned $105,308 CAD of $32,000 CAD)	329%	1213	$87 CAD	05-30	kicktraq
Bagthulhu - The diabolically adorable Cthulhu Dicebag Bagthulhu is an adorably cuddly lovecraftian abomination, who dreams of dice and world domination. (Has currently earned $16,929 NZD of $13,500 NZD)	125%	276	$61 NZD	05-30	kicktraq #bling
28mm World War 2 Wargaming Miniatures - Disposable Heroes To fund 28mm WW2 wargaming miniatures comprising German and United States troops (1941 uniforms used until the end of 1944.) (Has currently earned $10,766 of $5,000)	215%	94	$115	05-30	kicktraq #minis
FRIEND or FAUX - A Game of Ridiculously Revealing Questions Designed with a competitive twist for friends to discover and be surprised at how much (or how little) they know about each other. (Has currently earned $23,673 of $25,000)	94%	367	$65	05-31	kicktraq
Glory™ Are you ready to laugh while being challenged? Reap the glorious Glory while playing this funny and strategic resource management game! (Has currently earned $2,577 of $4,500)	57%	58	$44	05-31	kicktraq
SysHack: A Deduction Game of Hacking & Corporate Espionage Play as a Hacker or the Conglomerate. Find your teammates and work together to uncover top secret data or expose the hackers. (Has currently earned $4,489 of $2,800)	160%	208	$22	05-31	kicktraq
Hero's Journey Home - Old School Fantasy Tabletop Card Game It's time to fire up the presses for another 100+ copies of Hero's Journey Home! A tabletop fantasy adventure in the old school spirit. (Has currently earned $9,372 of $4,200)	223%	247	$38	05-31	kicktraq #rpg
Card City XL Card City XL is the ultimate card city building game in which your city automatically evolves under your eyes (Has currently earned $46,293 of $12,000)	385%	1283	$36	05-31	kicktraq
Moa, a Martin Wallace Board Game of Birds & Mammals for 3-5 Fend off the wretched mammals with your tribe of noble birds in this strategy board game for 3-5 players aged 14+. (Has currently earned $15,725 of $18,000)	87%	415	$38	05-31	kicktraq
Border Tensions A new kind of strategy card game for 2 or more players designed for fast pickup and go play. Good for parties, bad for friendships. (Has currently earned $3,040 of $5,000)	60%	33	$92	05-31	kicktraq
Blue Falcon: The Game to Screw Over Your Friends A competitive, player-elimination card game for 3-5 players, where you race to knock out your opponents... before they get you first. (Has currently earned $10,318 of $9,000)	114%	265	$39	06-01	kicktraq
Archmage Origins A 2-4 player card game where you use your mystical energy to gain control of a force of monsters, crush your rivals and win the day. (Has currently earned $5,134 of $2,500)	205%	375	$14	06-01	kicktraq
Alchenemy - A card game of turning lead into gold You must constantly choose between growing your resources and undermining your opponents as you compete to become the Royal Alchemist (Has currently earned $13,097 of $13,689)	95%	63	$208	06-01	kicktraq
RailRoad Rush - Card Game (PnP-version) Print and Play version of the game called "RailRoad Rush". Party-game up to 6 players.\nMix of strategy, fun and a little bit of luck! (Has currently earned €133 of €200)	66%	29	€5	06-01	kicktraq
MADPONG - The Evolution Of Beer Pong MADPONG is a cleaner and more explosive version of beer pong with crazy challenges and many shots. Get yours NOW! (Has currently earned €24,331 of €10,000)	243%	915	€27	06-01	kicktraq
Children - The Board Game Will you be the one to finally put the children to rest? Or will the malevolent child spirits drive you insane? (Has currently earned $8,677 of $1,500)	578%	295	$29	06-01	kicktraq
Zombie Tsunami - The Board Game Zombie Tsunami is a Party Game for 3 to 6 players where everyone leads a group of Zombies and compete to be the largest horde! (Has currently earned $55,607 of $10,000)	556%	1182	$47	06-01	kicktraq
Painted 28mm Tanks and Vehicles Desktop Dioramas is offering high quality Painted 28mm tanks and vehicles that have been done by Veteran's and Disabled Veterans. (Has currently earned $399 of $3,000)	13%	4	$100	06-01	kicktraq #minis
Game Upgrades 3.0 by Meeple Source! Game upgrade kits for Carcassonne, Catan, Camel Up, Colt Express, Pandemic, Charterstone, Islebound, Above & Below, and more! (Has currently earned $65,972 of $10,000)	659%	1346	$49	06-01	kicktraq #bling
Feetball - Fantasy Football Board Game With Feetball you predict every play as you watch NFL or college games on T.V. Call what happens, gain yards, and score! (Has currently earned $555 of $500)	111%	14	$40	06-01	kicktraq #take2
Wizards of the Wild - The Forbidden Forest Expand Wizards of the Wild with fantastic magical creatures and artifacts to empower your wizard with new abilities and strategy! (Has currently earned $13,487 of $7,500)	179%	483	$28	06-01	kicktraq #expansion base game
Heroes of the Great War: Limanowa 1914 Command genuine Great War units, cooperate with your allies and rewrite history in this tactical-scale war board game for 1-4 players. (Has currently earned £24,684 of £35,000)	70%	334	£74	06-02	kicktraq #take2
DOS! Twice the fun of UNO. DOS! The social game for creative people. Create bizarre sentences with your opponents and win by sticking to your vision. (Has currently earned $4,772 of $5,000)	95%	88	$54	06-02	kicktraq
Code Triage A cooperative emergency room board game for 1-4 players that plays in 60-120 minutes. Work together and save the hospital! (Has currently earned $5,229 of $20,000)	26%	99	$53	06-02	kicktraq
FARSIGHT: Corporate Warfare in a Dark Future Man and machine fight for dominance in this epic sci-fi strategy game with optional scale miniature sets. (Has currently earned £48,090 of £30,000)	160%	568	£85	06-02	kicktraq
The Moods of the Mad King! A micro-game for up to 4 players. Can you prevent the Mad King from chopping off your head by writing or stealing the best play? (Has currently earned $1,929 of $3,000)	64%	80	$24	06-02	kicktraq
Jellybean Shirts - Colorful clothing for board gamers! Show off your love of tabletop gaming with these high-quality shirts. Three stunning designs for gamers of all types! (Has currently earned $6,684 of $5,000)	133%	150	$45	06-02	kicktraq #bling
Armageddon War: Armored Combat in the End War Thick, 1" game chits/counters, beautiful components, fresh, dice-driven system. Armageddon War is wargaming's next step. (Has currently earned $42,912 of $16,000)	268%	349	$123	06-03	kicktraq
PROTO - a game to inspire innnovators While most people fear innovation because of uncertainty, PROTO gamifies the chaos of the creative process to inspire future innovators. (Has currently earned $6,078 of $3,500)	173%	121	$50	06-03	kicktraq
RomBomb: The Laugh Out Loud Hidden Agenda Card Game RomBomb is a game where you build up your romantic social status, or tear down other's social status, to win the game. (Has currently earned $1,746 of $2,000)	87%	51	$34	06-03	kicktraq
Turf War Z - 28mm Miniatures & Rules Gang warfare during the Zombie Apocalypse. A NEW game system and range of 28mm miniatures. (Has currently earned £18,627 of £4,000)	465%	170	£110	06-04	kicktraq
Hedgerows and Heroes Hedgerows and Heroes is a face paced strategy 28mm scale miniature game featuring all manner of woodland creatures. (Has currently earned $1,395 of $750)	186%	28	$50	06-04	kicktraq

New This Week

Project Info	Status	Backers	Avg Pledge	Ending	Comments
"Don't Panic!" - Bricks & Mortar Resin Terrain Hand made 28mm resin brick terrain, perfect for WW2 games like Bolt Action. These can be used in 40k or any 28mm scale tabletop games. (Has currently earned £481 of £500)	96%	9	£53	06-05	#bling
A DOG’S LIFE GAME – Be A Canine Hero! Enjoy a dog’s adventure with your family! We are happy to present to you our game for families, players and dog lovers. (Has currently earned $12,378 of $20,000)	61%	355	$35	07-01
Badlands: Outpost of Humanity Badlands is a strategic boardgame in a post-apocalyptic world, for 2-4 players. (Has currently earned €10,433 of €25,000)	41%	182	€57	06-23
Band Rivals - The Card Game Band Rivals is a fast-paced card game for 2-4 players. Play your character's special abilities to put together the perfect band. (Has currently earned $160 of $1,500)	10%	7	$23	06-22
BANDEMONIUM! - A Card Game BANDEMONIUM is an awesome Party Game! (Has currently earned $10,709 of $10,000)	107%	307	$35	06-25
BEGOO GAME : Most fun summer game ever. One and only beach towel game will change your perception. (Has currently earned €362 of €35,000)	1%	14	€26	06-25
Big Bad Con 2017 Big Bad Con is built on great games, great game masters, and a welcoming community. Come join us October 13-15, 2017! (Has currently earned $15,330 of $3,000)	511%	158	$97	06-22	#con
Crazier Eights: Camelot (Fantasy Card Game) A simple stand alone fantasy card game in the world of King Arthur. (Has currently earned $1,155 of $2,000)	57%	44	$26	06-23	#take2
Darklands: Warriors of Baalor In the dark lands, YOU command the hosts of man and beast that your ancestors once did for power, glory or just to survive... (Has currently earned £7,537 of £10,000)	75%	89	£85	06-06	#minis
Dreadbound A cooperative sci-fi survival game. Strategize and succeed as a team, or struggle against an increasingly difficult alien threat. (Has currently earned $5,081 of $15,000)	33%	91	$56	06-29
DRINK TO THE GODS This is an uncensored drinking game for 4-10 players who are 21+. Players take turns drawing cards that invoke the Wrath of the GODS. (Has currently earned $997 of $10,000)	9%	33	$30	06-25	#take2
Drinkagon - Strategic Drinking Game Board game for up to 6 players that combines drinking vs. truth or dare and strategic thinking. (Has currently earned $3,801 of $5,000)	76%	105	$36	06-16
DrugLord: This tabletop drug war will end the war on drugs. Boardgame for evil masterminds. You'll be the boss in the LAST cartel war before legalization. \r\nWin before the Prohibition ends! (Has currently earned €360 of €66,600)	0%	4	€90	06-22
Dwarven Smithy A dwarven themed crafting card game with hand/area management. Earn the most gold to win the game! (Has currently earned $4,007 of $19,000)	21%	103	$39	06-22
Electromagnate Board Game The euphoria you experience when playing custom multiplayer games online is now available on your table top. (Has currently earned $2,236 of $1,550)	144%	30	$75	06-29
H.E.A.D. Hunters: A New Kind of Tabletop Game A miniatures-like game where everything needed to play is stored inside the head of each 5.25" collectible toy. (Has currently earned $11,401 of $40,000)	28%	129	$88	06-23
Hand of Fate: Ordeals An adventure deck-building game of life and death set in the Hand of Fate universe. Play competitively or co-op with 1~4 adventurers. (Has currently earned $154,445 AUD of $30,000 AUD)	514%	1648	$94 AUD	06-21
Hang 12: The push-your-luck party game! Do you know what your friends are thinking? Guess correctly to surf bigger and bigger waves, before it all comes crashing down! Whoah!! (Has currently earned $1,688 AUD of $8,500 AUD)	19%	49	$34 AUD	06-14
Just1MoreCat - an all ages card and dice game about cats. An all ages card and dice game about cats, whose mission is to provide charitable support to animal shelters. (Has currently earned $870 of $8,675)	10%	20	$44	07-25
Kitchen Rush A real-time cooperative board game set in a high pressure kitchen environment. (Has currently earned $40,117 of $20,000)	200%	665	$60	06-23
Kokoro: Avenue of the Kodama We are re-releasing and expanding the 2016 Essen hit "Avenue" in the lovable world of Kodama. (Has currently earned $25,899 of $10,000)	258%	898	$29	06-10
Legend of Champions Legend of Champions is a fast-paced, trading card game that can be played in 15 to 45 min with 2 to 4 players. FREE SHIPPING in US (Has currently earned $406 of $3,500)	11%	6	$68	06-23
Magilogical Magilogical is a simple card game that has been designed to introduce the concept of Logic Gates. Fantasy and Magic meet Computing. (Has currently earned £139 of £1,000)	13%	7	£20	07-25
Metal Dawn Cooperatively race against the clock & fight the invading rogue AI robot army while gaining intel to hack machines and stop Metal Dawn! (Has currently earned $17,613 of $15,000)	117%	229	$77	06-22
Napoleon Saga : Waterloo A 2 player tactical board game of Napoleonic warfare during the first Empire. (Has currently earned €16,446 of €15,000)	109%	344	€48	06-23
Nerd Fest - The Comic Convention Game Everyone loves going to comic conventions. This fast paced card and dice game captures that excitement and experience. (Has currently earned $2,506 of $8,000)	31%	54	$46	06-22
Nocturn An epic strategy boardgame. Build your very own nation in the dark fantasy world, wage wars to expand it, and try to survive. (Has currently earned kr75,750 SEK of kr500,000 SEK)	15%	89	kr851 SEK	06-19	#take2
Play Big!® - The game to raise smart and curious kids A fun and fact-filled card game and mobile app for kids and grown-ups. (Has currently earned €3,604 of €6,000)	60%	40	€90	06-29
PRICETITUTION: How much money for you to do absurd things? A card game where you guess how much money it would take your friends to do ridiculous things. Pricetitution - Everyone has a price. (Has currently earned $17,434 of $10,000)	174%	468	$37	06-23
Project NOS - Tabletop Street Racing Are you the best street racer? Prove it in this 15-20 minute, real-time, dice drag race for 2-4 players ages 12+. (Has currently earned $1,255 of $5,000)	25%	58	$22	06-05
Red Moon Rising RPG Roleplaying in the steampunk world of Red Moon Rising using Revolution D100. (Has currently earned €2,593 of €7,500)	34%	54	€48	06-22	#rpg
Reissue of Deep Space D-6 and New Mini-Expansion. The solitaire worker placement game of deep space survival returns. (Has currently earned $80,305 of $20,000)	401%	3296	$24	06-20	#reprint bgg
Relic Worlds Showdown Find ancient treasure on alien worlds and fight your enemies in this exciting expansion to Savage Worlds Showdown! (Has currently earned $150 of $2,000)	7%	6	$25	06-26	#expansion base game
Revolutionary Subscription Based 3D Printable TableTop Game A unique table top wargaming experience set in the near future, consisting of free and premium 3D printable figurines and scenic models (Has currently earned £180 of £30,000)	0%	5	£36	06-27
Risky Arcade Play arcade games on the board, win tickets and race to the gift shop! Take risks, battle other players and collect all 3 prizes to Win (Has currently earned $1,896 of $7,000)	27%	37	$51	06-21	#lolwut
ROLL PLAYER - Monsters & Minions Expansion (+ Reprint) The King has raised a call to arms! Create your character. Earn experience and confront the vile monster terrorizing the village! (Has currently earned $187,546 of $65,000)	288%	2705	$69	06-15	#expansion base game
Saloon Tycoon: The Ranch Expansion Yee-Haw! Introducing The Ranch Expansion for Saloon Tycoon, the 3D tile laying game set in the old west. Base game also available. (Has currently earned $37,010 of $10,000)	370%	760	$49	06-12	#expansion base game
Samhain The Roman legions advance! On the night of Samhain, the Celtic clans gather to decide who will be the leader of the resistance (Has currently earned €13,213 of €3,000)	440%	1105	€12	06-23
Scuttler's Island A frantic game of paths, pirates and treacherous traps that evolves as you play, for 2-8 players. (Has currently earned £3,075 of £17,500)	17%	73	£42	06-22
Street Masters Rise of the Kingdom 1-4 player cooperative miniatures board game inspired by classic fighting video games, designed by Adam and Brady Sadler. (Has currently earned $32,444 of $60,000)	54%	330	$98	06-23
Street Rod - the card game It’s the summer of 1963 and with the few bucks you’ve got, you buy yourself a car. Race it, customize it and beat the King. €10 only! (Has currently earned €758 of €2,900)	26%	51	€15	06-23
Texas Hold'em with ZOMBIES An easy to learn, fast-paced game, combining Texas Hold'em Poker with zombie slaying. For 2-8 players. Ages 10 to infinity. (Has currently earned $2,100 of $7,079)	29%	19	$111	06-26
THE GREATER DEBATE A stand alone expansion to The Great Debate, the third in the series! Come meet new friends and defend your views in this social game! (Has currently earned $1,546 of $5,000)	30%	46	$34	06-10
The War of the Worlds - Board Game Save England from the Martian Tripods in our Solitaire board game! Based on the classic novel of H. G. Wells! (Has currently earned $12,336 of $25,000)	49%	135	$91	06-22
Tired of London: the party game for miserable Londoners. It's a bit like Cards Against Humanity™, but written just for you and your awful London friends. (Has currently earned £594 of £5,000)	11%	26	£23	06-30	#lolwut
Trumpty Dumpty Board Game Trumpty Dumpty is a brilliant yet simple board game that can be played in under an hour with 2-4 players. (Has currently earned $644 of $5,000)	12%	5	$129	06-26	#take2 #lolwut
unPresidented: Bigger and Better Board games for politics nerds, strategy gamers, and people with good taste. (Has currently earned $10,625 CAD of $28,000 CAD)	37%	16	$664 CAD	06-22	#take2
Villain Clans card game A 'Happy Families' - style card game featuring classic and not-so-classic villains from pop culture. (Has currently earned £0 of £800)	0%	0		06-24

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