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How To Play Poker With Your Rock Band Drum Kit

Posted by timothy on from the harder-to-keep-a-straight-face dept.

SeanLind writes "After writing a similar article for converting your Rock Band guitar I got flooded with feedback and requests for a Drum Kit versions. So that's exactly what I did, three easy steps to converting your Rock Band drum kit into a wireless game controller, and using that to play online poker."

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  1. Converting My Rock Band Drum Kit? by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 3, Funny

    Man, do I feel like a dumbass ... I use my keyboard to play online poker. Thanks for opening my eyes to the error of my ways ...

    BTW, can anyone loadn me a few chips? I only need three cards to hit this inside straight.

    1. Re:Converting My Rock Band Drum Kit? by Michael+Kristopeit · · Score: 2, Informative

      it doesn't work out of the box, but you can configure it to work with all sites...

  2. Re:Gives new meaning by Bluesman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Especially since you only say that in Blackjack.

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    If moderation could change anything, it would be illegal.
  3. Tilt by bytethese · · Score: 3, Funny

    Great, so when I go on tilt, get pissed off and start beating on the drum set, I inadvertently go All In and loose MORE money...

    1. Re:Tilt by nedlohs · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Optimal play in blackjack does not have an advantage over the house. Unless by optimal you mean card counting and varying bet sizes accordingly - in which case it still doesn't have an advantage because you won't be allowed to play anyway.

  4. Done that. by Matrix14 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I made a kill once in Halo with an unmodified Rock Band drum kit. It was completely luck, though; all I could do was jump and shoot, not move in any way.

  5. Converting what into what? by DragonWriter · · Score: 5, Funny

    [...] three easy steps to converting your Rock Band drum kit into a wireless game controller [...]

    A Rock Band Drum kit starts out as a rather expensive wireless game controller.

    That's like "three easy steps to converting your Lamborghini Murcielago into a gasoline-powered automobile".

  6. Other Controlers for other games by nycheetah · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Try using a DDR pad to play tetris. Its quite fun!