If only Wedge was that hot.
2d12 roll vs disease resistance to determine if a human player gets bit when they lose at showdown to a zombie.Maybe the simplest solution is to have to zombie roll a dice
Edit: that's tongue in cheek BTW, I don't want to feel like I'm playing D&D instead of poker!
Is that a bad thing though? I look at it like Carl is looking for food in an abandoned house he opens the door (the flop) and is safe. He works his way into the kitchen opens the fridge and finds the suicide king! He runs into the next room (next hand) and a dang king of hearts is on the couch! It makes it random, exciting, guessing what's coming next! Who cares if that walking dead guy gets beat up a couple hands, he deserves a rough road to the top once a year in a tourney. Just my opinion obviously.
(aka the Death Card) would make a suitable alternative or additional trigger to the Suicide King. Wouldn't change it anymore than knowing your bb next. My group is probably already going to complain about the K, so I'm just going to use both red king's to keep it simple stupid.Had a shower thought last night about the Suicide King method of triggering the Zombie decay/bleed:
If the Suicide King appearing on the board means zombies must post antes in the next hand, would that change the way zombies play in the current hand and would this be a positive or negative side effect?
As an aside I was thinking today that
Fact
aka the Death Card), so, the first player to lose while the death card is on the board becomes the zombie.I'm not sure I'm following the reason you are forcing a zombie. How does the rest of your proposed game go on? So some random bad draw of ace forces me to be handicapped? I'd personally would be pissed when we are talking $50 buy in for 20 players is $1000 prize pool. My enticement to rebuy is $20 only for rebuy as to the $50 starting buy in. $20 more at a stab at $1k prizes seems like a reason to rebuy multiple times. You could be right and people tighten up but I don't see it.I've been having another think about my proposed method of introducing the first zombie. To recap, the first player to rebuy is resurrected as the zombie with additional chips but with a BB ante.
However, when I mentioned this to one of my regulars yesterday his first reaction was to say he'd actively try to become the zombie (for the extra chips) until I got to the part about posting extra BBs and he did a 180 and said he'd try to avoid becoming the zombie.
If players perceive (rightly or wrongly) that the zombie is a handicap that may result in no rebuys and therefore no zombies. Players may play ultra tight to avoid becoming the zombie or may get busted out and think the rebuy is wasted money. A zombie outbreak tournament with no zombies would, I think you'll agree, be a bit of a disaster. I'm starting to think that's a risk I should avoid by taking the outbreak out of the hands of the players.
As an alternative I thought the outbreak could be initiated by a card appearing on the board (my choice would be
Thoughts?
I covered this (without detail) in my first post on the topic:I've been having another think about my proposed method of introducing the first zombie. To recap, the first player to rebuy is resurrected as the zombie with additional chips but with a BB ante.
However, when I mentioned this to one of my regulars yesterday his first reaction was to say he'd actively try to become the zombie (for the extra chips) until I got to the part about posting extra BBs and he did a 180 and said he'd try to avoid becoming the zombie.
If players perceive (rightly or wrongly) that the zombie is a handicap that may result in no rebuys and therefore no zombies. Players may play ultra tight to avoid becoming the zombie or may get busted out and think the rebuy is wasted money. A zombie outbreak tournament with no zombies would, I think you'll agree, be a bit of a disaster. I'm starting to think that's a risk I should avoid by taking the outbreak out of the hands of the players.
As an alternative I thought the outbreak could be initiated by a card appearing on the board (my choice would be
Thoughts?
You spend money on a rebuy and stay human. Poker as usual.
It's definitely a valid concern forsure. My normal buy-in is $25 during the rest of the year. This will be double that. Have you considered doubling it for a special event once a year? Then your rebuys could be 10. That way the penalty is there but the rebuy is only half at a chance at a much larger pot then Normal.
The Zombie rebuy period lasts indefinitely, while the paid (human) rebuy period ends after a short run (1st break for example).
I assumed we all agreed to that already lol. Definitely what I'm doing. I wish we had a list of hosts going to try this next month. Then take votes on obstacles, to get a skeleton of rules put together. After each hosts has their game they can come and let us all know how it went. Things we hadn't thought of, or what didn't work, what worked well etc. Just a thought.
Heads up is a different beast and usually your in the hand anyway, so with mine on any red king showing up makes the bleed, it's only a SB and you in for a blind anyway. I think to keep the theme alive I will continue the bleed until it's over. It's possible they will both be bleeding and will just help end the tournament faster.
OK, so all your zombie antes = SB? So at heads up the zombie would either post SB+SB or BB+SB depending on who has the button when the trigger card comes out?
Are you still planning an ante every hand? If so how much? I originally planned every hand but it seemed unsustainable even with a SB.
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