$5k raise on a $550 pot? Dan isn't that stupid. :) Great pic though, love it.
As for bringing gambling to the blockchain, I think that will just create even more regulatory challenges for front ends that want to use it. The online sites like PowerStars got shut down in the US and if a front end site like steemit.com or busy.org had gambling showing up, it could cause problems for them. That's my thought, anyway. People could do a poker site as a separate tool though.
I wondered when first proposing the idea what legality issues it might face. Obviously we would not want to be bringing problems Steemit's way, but if there was a way around the regulations, or a way to implement it with the regulations, it could still be good.
And why do you presume that a 5K raise is a bad move? Perhaps he has raised it ridiculously high a number of times prior to this hand and earned himself a reputation as a bluffer. Only now he is holding pocket aces and some sorry fucker(probably me) is going to call him thinking that he's trying to steal the blinds.
I'm a conservative poker player, so I'm usually the one capitalizing on the guy who takes up this strategy. They can bluff me a number of times, but when I take them for a huge hand every once in a while, I come out way ahead. $5k pre flop bet with $100 big blind is just crazy.
Nothing is crazy when you have the amount of STEEM to play with that @dantheman has in that picture! 5k is nothing.
I gave no thought towards making the game look realistic though. If I did, then I would not have been able to sit all these players at the same table with such differing stack sizes. A few of them far exceed the limit for a 50/100 blind table. It was just for fun is all.
Hahah, indeed. Big stacks playing with the minnows makes for an unusual game. If a shark shows up, they can make a nice killing though. :)
Would certainly be an interesting challenge sitting down at the table with so little in front of you compared to the others.
I think I would have some fun with that.