A different way to play competitive cribbage.
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In most tournaments however organized, it is possible for a "lucky" player to win.
The element of luck depends on the relative skill of the two players and can range from a minimum of 37% to a maximum of 100% in all games. See Cribbage - Luck or Skill? article in Dec 2005 issue of Cribbage World, published monthly by the ACC.
How can the luck factor be eliminated and allow the skill factor to dominate?
Answer? By having all players play the same hands - "Duplicate Cribbage" - impractical without computer assistance.
IMPROVE YOUR GAME by comparing how you played all the hands with the top players. After you finish your games, print your summary game log. Download their summary game logs, extract and then print theirs and compare. NOTE - use WORDPAD to view and or print the game logs!
At the ACC duplicate cribbage event at 2004 Grand Nationals in Atlanta GA, Sept 17, Bob Milk won a Grand Slam (all 9 games) enroute to second place.
Bob aka MOOJUICE reports "I attribute my strong showing at the Duplicate Tournament at the 22004 ACC Grand National to HALSCRIB and the weekly Web Club duplicate tournaments!"
The WEB Club is Duplicate Cribbage where each member plays a nine-game match using identical program settings.
The hands you play in each game are the hands all players play.
It is similar to ACC Grass Roots play. A normal win is worth 2 game points, a skunk win is 3, double-skunks count as a normal skunk.
The number holes you won by are PLUS Spread Points; those you lost are MINUS Spread Points;
After a game is over Game Points: 0, 2, or 3; Win or Loss: 0, 1; Plus or Minus Spread Points; are displayed on your "score-slip".
After the 9th game is over, your score-slip including column totals and NET Spread Points - the difference of total Plus and Minus Points - is emailed.
Your playing opponent is "HAL" the computer, but your real opponents are your fellow Web Club members.
Your objective is to maximize your Game Points.
Ties are broken as follows: Game Wins - Net Spread Points - Plus Spread Points.
The top three score-slip result files received will be posted on this page.
Everyone in the world-wide cribbage community is invited to play under tournament-like conditions on a specific day as chosen by the members.
Join the fun and excitement of duplicate cribbage. Obtain HALSCRIB LITE It's free.
Any user of HALSCRIB or LITE can play.
Scheduled tournament dates:
Click MEMBER to register and receive ENTRY FORMS via email.
Registered members will receive their ENTRY FORM usuall on a Sunday.
LITE users can play on the specified date at any time on your computer in the
comfort of your home. HALSCRIB users can choose any day of that week on which to play.
Email-attach your results manually (recommended for XP SP2 users) or automatically when
prompted if your internet connection is "live".
To play as a member or guest you will need an "ENTRY FORM" which contains settings needed to verify participation.
Important: Your first WEB session on the day of the tournament MUST be for tournament play.
Click MODE - WEB Club (HAL is not muggable) to enter the tournament.
In your first session you will play the tournament hands. In subsequent sessions, you will NOT play the tournament hands.
Do NOT click CARDS - WEB (HAL is muggable) otherwise you will NOT play the tournament hands. This mode is for practise and recreational daily WEB CLub play.
Enter your "handle" or "nicname" of up to 8 letters, before you begin game 1.
After your ninth game is completed, the "score-slip" file may be automatically emailed if your connection to the internet is "alive".
Or you may choose to email-attach and this file later. XP users are required to manually email this file.
The score-slip file - yyyy_ww_nicname.WEB where "yyyy" is the year, "ww" the week of the year - can be located via WINDOWS EXPLORER in your CRIBBAGE/HALSCRIB subfolder.
All three results files, .C64 .LOG and .WEB may be automatically zipped into a ZIP file.
Members receive the "entry form", mmmddWEBENTRY.ZIP, as an email-attachment early in the week.
mmm is the month, and dd the day of the month when LITE users will get the tournament cards. HALSCRIB users can get the tournament cards on any day of the week.
After receiving the Entry Form, download it into "MY DOWNLOADS".
On the day you wish to play the tournament games, OPEN (ie UNZIP) your entry form into your chosen install folder - (CRIBBAGE/HALSCRIB subfolder of PROGRAM FILES is default).
Then launch HALSCRIB and the following process events should occur.
Congratulations NHPEGGER, winner Week 52 Dec 23!
Extract NHPEGGER's 9-game .C64
file and SAVE (EXTRACT for LITE users) to CRIBBAGE/HALSCRIB folder for VIEW-MOVIE replay.
Extract .LOG file for WORDPAD viewing only (requires installation of HALSWARE OEM Font for proper display of suit symbols).
Don't have LITE? Download HALSCRIB LITE and install then use CARDS-IMPORT for any C64 file, then use VIEW-MOVIE.
IMPROVE YOUR GAME by comparing our winner's game log to yours. Print the logs and note the differences!
See Start of WEB Match.
See WEB Play Manual scoring.
See End of WEB Match.
E-mail me if you would like to join.
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2008 Web Club Tournament Result
Week 52 Dec 23, 2008
Rank
Name
Pts
Wins
+
Net
1
NHPEGGER
13
6
75
+25
2
MOOJUICE
11
5
86
+17
3
FRANWARD
11
5
75
+17