gcribbs

Legally Blonde 2

MikeMay

I'll take Rugrats Go Wild

squidget

2 fast 2 furious for me please

dann

I'll take "Holes"

NCMojo

Well? Who won? Did I miss the updated numbers?

I really need to hit the jackpot this week. Little Timmy desperately needs that transplant, and Sally's birthday is coming up this week. She wants a little red wagon... aw, have a heart, Groucho! Tell us who won!

PixyJunket

Once the actuals come in, I'd imagine it'll take a bit of time to prepare everything..

Jericho

Actually reading the rules, I noticed to get the low, it's actual pretty hard. To get 5 different numbers, and none higher than a 6? Wonder if anyone will do it?

mookiemeister

Dirty Pretty Things

Groucho

Filling out the complete leader board was a bit tedious, so I’m going to post the top three hands for both high and low.

HIGH HANDS

1. “Masked and Anonymous”, $32,000 (3-2-0-0-0, Three Zero’s) = Not Picked

2. “Hotel”, $15,000 (1-5-0-0-0, Three Zeroes) = Sunday Morning

3. “Wrong Turn”, $92,993 (9-2-9-9-3) = Not Picked

LOW HANDS

Only two hands qualified:

1. “The Housekeeper”, $53,014 (5-3-0-1-4) = Not Picked

2. “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines”, $5,063,450 (6-3-4-5-0) = ToddSm66


28 Days Later was the highest grossing film that wasn’t picked, so the pot this week is 2,341,887 points!

So, right now it looks like Sunday Morning and ToddSm66 split the pot. High winner will get 1170944 points, Low winner will get 1170943 points.

ToddSm66

Woohoo...Being a loser finally pays off.

NCMojo

Groucho --

I think BoxOfficeMojo.com got some estimates mixed in with their totals. (I just couldn't believe that two films took in such rounded totals -- how on earth do you make exatcly $32,000, or $15,000?) Here is the link to their Top 130 Actuals.

Based on this, Masked and Anonymous brought in $30,783, and The Hotel brought in $12,840... neither of which amounts to squat.

The highest five hands should be...

Spellbound -- $200,046 (0-0-0-4-6 = 3 Zeros)... Not Picked
Wrong Turn -- $92,993 (9-2-9-9-3 = 3 Nines)... Not Picked
Bringing Down the House -- $58,288 (5-8-2-8-8 = 3 Eights)... Not Picked
Le Grand Seduction -- $566, 396 (6-6-3-9-6 = 3 Sixes)... Not Picked
Dirty Pretty Things -- $100,588 (0-0-5-8-8 = Two Pair)... Not Picked

The best hand of all players was sandman642, who picked Whale Rider, at $1,085,258 (8-5-2-5-8 = Two Pair).

(Sorry to be such a spoil-sport -- honestly, I knew that my pick was a loser -- I was just wondering about the round numbers and found the updated totals.)

PixyJunket

Own3d.

NCMojo

It's my fault for pressuring him to come up with a winner before the results could be fully certified. I guess that just makes him another Katherine Harris to my Jeb Bush...

Jericho

So is 0 supposed to be high and low? I noticed both the "low" hands have 0 in it, which I thought was individually the "highest" number.

NCMojo

Well, that is true for all standard hands, but for the purpose of determining the "low" hands, you have to go with Rule Number Seven:

NCMojo

Also, while I'm on the subject... there were actually 4 movies that would qualify for the Low Hand:

Terminator 3 -- $5,063,450 (6-3-4-5-0)
Northfolk -- $124,035 (2-4-0-3-5)
Housekeeper -- $53,014 (5-3-0-1-4)
Thrill Ride -- $10,643 (1-0-6-4-3)

We can throw out the last two since nobody picked them... but that means that William Fuld actually had the better low hand, since he (incredibly) picked Northfolk. Way to go!

Jericho

Yeah, I read that, but was a little confused. I mean if you had 0-1-2-3-4, you could technically have the low hand and the high hand (since it's a straight, and the highest hand this week was only two pair).

Also, if you just compared two hands

0-1-5-6-4

and

9-3-2-1-4

The first hand with the zero is the high hand since zero is the high card, but it also is the low hand under out rules. Just a little confusing, but so be it.

NCMojo

You are right -- Groucho made a slight typo. 0-1-2-3-4 would actually be a straight, which would in all likelihood be the high hand -- so it would not count as the best low hand. The best low hand would actually be 0-1-2-3-5.

And in your two examples... let's evaluate each one seperately, first under the high rules, then the low rules. In the high rules, both hands are sukekekekee, but 0-1-5-6-4 beats the 9-3-2-1-4, since the 0 can count as either a 10 or a zero. (Like the Ace in traditional poker.)

With the high rules, since zero can count as either a zero or a 10... we of course count it as a zero. And 0-1-5-6-4 would indeed win again... if nobody else had so much as a single pair, which is extremely unlikely. So yeah... the high hand can also be the low hand, but that would be kind of flukey.

Also -- and I know this goes without saying -- but 9-3-2-1-4 would be disqualified as a low hand because one of the numbers is greater than 6.

NCMojo = Grocuho's New Number Flunkey.

NCMojo

OK, according to the official rules, you only discard a low hand if it has a pair, so technically 0-1-2-3-4 would be the winning low hand. But this is just plain silly on the face of it, and so I recommend to Groucho that he clarify this rule to say that the only eligible low hands are the scratch hands from before.

nchhabra

but if you were playing high-lo poker, i.e. 7 stud hi-low split, an ace through 5 straight would be a monster hand and qualify for high and low. so in this case maybe a 0-1-2-3-4 should count for both, a str8 for high, and a 4 low.

evenflow

Where the heck is Groucho? We need a new thread for this week!

PixyJunket

Maybe he decided it was too much work..?

NCMojo

Well, Groucho needs to get over here and post a new thread pronto.

William Fuld

Any particular reason why this game died? I thought it was fun.

RyoHazuki

It died cause it was too much work for basically nothing. Now if there was real money involved. Then we would have a DVD Talk staple.