[Blindtlk] WSOP

[Bryan Schulz]

hi,

i didn't follow the entire tournament much this year but last year, a blind 
man from vegas beat six thousand players.

did you have to braille your own cards?
i have a deck of braille cards but the dots are on the face/value side and 
not readable when face down.
i guess using these cards with sighted friends wouldn't work for long as 
they would have an incentive to learn what the braille dots mean and they 
could visually know your hole cards by looking at the braille.

i've seen racks of something like 500 chips for about 15 to 25 bucks online 
so it wouldn't be a big deal if you drilled a hole through one color, 
grinded a flat spot on another color, etc.
it would take a good amount of time but if you needed more denominations, 
you could slightly grind off one corner of a square chip and make it look 
like a semi home plate shape, slightly grind one corner of the triangle, 
etc.

It would be cool if the casino had a game once in a while where everyone was 
blindfolded.

Bryan Schulz
The BEST Solution
www.best-acts.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <mworkman at ualberta.ca>
To: "NFBnet Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] WSOP


> Hi,
>
> I regularly play in home games using braille cards and chips of differing
> weights.  In these games, I might have some heavier clay ones, some 
> plastic
> ones of the same shape but much lighter, and some thin plastic ones.  If 
> we
> want a fourth denomination, then it is easy enough to put some notches in
> the cheap thin plastic ones.  I've also heard of people buying a nice set 
> of
> clay chips and etching different patterns into them (e.g., black equals an 
> X
> pattern, green equals two parallel lines, blue equals no marks, etc). 
> I've
> also been in games where this wasn't really an option because only one 
> size
> of chip was available, so another player would stack my chips after I won
> the hand, and I would keep track of the various stacks.  I don't prefer 
> this
> last option, but it's okay in friendly low stakes games.  Finally, I think
> they do sell chips of differing shapes on line (e.g., square, triangle,
> circle, etc).  I've never actually used these though.
>
> In a casino, so far as I know, the only option is to have someone sit next
> to you and whisper information to you as well as gather your chips at the
> end of a hand.
>
> HTH
>
> Marc
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org]On
> Behalf Of Bryan Schulz
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 9:24 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Talk Mailing List
> Subject: [Blindtlk] WSOP
>
>
> hi,
>
> with this years world series of poker recently ending, does anyone have
> suggestions of how blind people can play the game?
> i'm talking about things like differently shaped chips, etc.
>
> Bryan Schulz
> The BEST Solution
> www.best-acts.com
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