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Tonights write up will be short. Ben is a lucky cunt. end of.

Ok, if that is your definition of calculated risk! was a sweet river card though 😆

I would like to get this in early before Wolf posts his “game report” I am NOT jammy!! Jim was just unlucky…. My god I felt sorry for him, 😆

In the interest of balanced reporting… here is what really happened…

The first official =XDC= poker tournament started off with a few warm up play-money cash games, which was great as it gave the players a chance to suss each other out before the tournament proper. It was very apparent that true to form Wolf had an inflated image of every hand he was given, however, lady luck prevailed throughout, and his now bursting poker ego meant tournament play was going to be quite interesting.
Further round the table Turks was playing a quite aggressive, and yet again a mixture of bravado and luck scored him some easy chips.
Next to him was Doc, who being the most experienced poker player took some bad beats against the lunacy of Turks and Wolf.
I joined later on and similar to Doc lost most of my hands against marginal cards from the Turks/Wolf combo.

To round off the evening we set up a fast tournament game.

From early on, Doc and myself established a chip lead, as the other two nutters decided to calm down their play somewhat. Turks, in contrast to the earlier game must have fallen asleep, and was involved in very little of the action, and Wolfs eagerness to beat Doc (and have argument material for the next month) forced him into a tight/passive profile.
However, despite early promise, Doc’s over valuing of his hands was ultimately his demise, and though he may have thought it was a bad beat, with a straight draw on the flop and holding a set of queens he was out in fourth…
At this point it seemed Turks seemed to come alive through boredom, and soon was back to his old loose/aggressive profile and a couple of bad hands later he was out which left myself as chip leader going head to head with Wolf, who at this point decided play like the proverbial nun’s chuff… However, looks, experience, and glossy apple-mac’s won over shouts of “Gay” and “Cock” and I emerged victorious.

I think we would all play a bit tighter had there been real money involved, and a few more XDC’ers would have made a fun game into a great game, so c’mon guys get onto pokerstars and sign up!! 😀

Looks bloody photo realistic in the brief shots. Not sure I get the idea behind the presentation of the video though, if they have gameplay footage, why not show it properly?

“on the hill adjacent to B” when there are TWO hills adjacent to B, one north/ north east, the other west).

Agreed! Adjacent means “next to” not closest to. Although the debate provided the best 5 minuets I have ever on-line, except the time I found that Donkey Porn site.. 😳

Your all right in a way. It can be frustrating to get a hammering, and we’re all guilty of having misplaced suspicions about certain players (in particular the 50 ranks), but some folk are just that good, and spend more time than any of us playing this title. I do have my suspicions about low ranked players racking up huge KIll/Death ratios, as we all know how steep the learning curve is in BFBC2.

It’s far more satisfying to play in squads, I actually don’t really enjoy playing with folk unless there is TS involved, but we need to “play as a squad” as Paddy says, a good mix of classes, last man standing stays out of trouble etc.. There is nothing more disheartening than killing 3 enemy, missing one, and then his 3 mates all re-appear. We need more of that. In vehicle heavy maps I think we do quite well as we are all tank/chopper whores, but I will always give up my tank/chopper to a more able driver. A tanks is far more effective with 2 men, and a such should be left at base until it can be fully manned.
Snipers are essential, but must take recon as a primary duty (hence my comments about binoculars last night). It’s not a way to rack up easy kills, but a stream of info for the other classes that is invaluable particularly in conquest.

Damn I’m rambling again.. 😕

I disagree, a weapon is a weapon. The RPG moves really slow, and unlike a round from a smg it can be avoided, plus the RPG has a long reload time, limited ammo capacity. Easy solution? Stab the fucker. But on a similar vein, this goes back to my argument last night that the server is there to let the members of XDC have a place to game by our preferred method, and as such, the Admins should not have any doubts about kicking people for any reason. It’s a public server, but not a public service. If the Admins don’t like the use of RPG’s and its spoiling the game, Kick.

had some great games on bfbc2 tonight with doc, beer, queeks, ben and n0m. One point Doc was in the tank on hastings and had one of us in the tank with him and two covering him, I got an 8 kill streak, doc got a 15 kill streak and it was all awesome, especially seeing beer sweep low overhead in the chopper whilst two tanks, myself and doc surged forward using beer to call out the targets, was most fun!

Agreed, and it was nice to see you and Doc not having to share a tank for once, it made Team-Speak a much more peaceful place.. (apart from Doc’s massive fan) I still find that oddly funny 😆