A thread to talk about poker

Started by rjs246, November 03, 2005, 10:34:26 AM

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rjs246

Quote from: Sun_Mo on November 17, 2005, 12:40:17 PM
i wish i had more people to play poker with around here.  i have a couple of friends that I play with once every couple months.  i'm an average player but love to play.  i think i'll start playing with real money on the internet more.

INternet poker can be very lucrative and I made a decent amount of money doing it for a while but it's completely mechanical and anti-social and takes a lot of what I like about poker out of the equation. That's why I'm glad I found this shady card room downtown to play in. Sitting around a table with some dudes drinking beer and playing cards is a lot more fun than sitting in your underwear, by yourself with a camel back full of rum and coke clicking 'fold' over and over again.
Is rjs gonna have to choke a bitch?

Let them eat bootstraps.

SunMo

Quote from: rjs246 on November 17, 2005, 12:42:19 PM
Sitting around a table with some dudes drinking beer and playing cards is a lot more fun than sitting in your underwear, by yourself with a camel back full of rum and coke clicking 'fold' over and over again.

totally agree.  but internet poker is like the ugly friend, always there you need to abuse it.

there's a $65 buy-in tournament in AC on Black Friday, I think I'm going down to play.  Never played a tournament before, we'll see how it goes.
I'm the Anti-Christ. You got me in a vendetta kind of mood.

MURP

Quote from: rjs246 on November 17, 2005, 12:42:19 PM
Sitting around a table with some dudes drinking beer and playing cards is a lot more fun than sitting in your underwear, by yourself with a camel back full of rum and coke clicking 'fold' over and over again.

Preposterous!

Diomedes

I don't play poker.  I would lose.  Carry on.
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rjs246

Quote from: Sun_Mo on November 17, 2005, 12:45:38 PM
totally agree.  but internet poker is like the ugly friend, always there you need to abuse it.

there's a $65 buy-in tournament in AC on Black Friday, I think I'm going down to play.  Never played a tournament before, we'll see how it goes.

Live tournaments are fun. And playing cards in a casino is always entertaining. I've seen tons of people sitting at nickel and dime tables talking shtein and lecturing other players on how to play. Clearly if they were any good they wouldn't be at the 3/6 limit table. Retards.
Is rjs gonna have to choke a bitch?

Let them eat bootstraps.

Wingspan

a few weeks ago, before a friends wedding, we had a game going with 21 players. we had 3 tables of 7.

i did not win, but it was friggin awesome

i play pretty regularly, and have entered the low stakes tournaments at the borgata, i won 1 last january. been down there to play about 15 times. that ruled. i won that with a four of a kind...4 3's. i had pocket 3's to start, i was small blind. 3 players on the table(1 with a small chip count, me and the other were about even). first guy calls blind, i double the blind with a raise. big blind calls. other guy calls.

flop comes 3-7-K

i check.
short stack check.
big raise (guy paired his king).

i call
short stack calls (putting himself all in)
call.

turn comes 7

check
i raise modestly, just realling in.
re-raise to put me all in.
i was already in the money, so i figured its a wash, with trip 3s, even if he has a king i am safe with full house 3-3-3-7-7

turned cards...i was in trouble
short stack was done with 10-10
other guy has K-7, giving him a full house as well.

i shake his hand, get ready to leave and the river is a 3. i damn near shat myself.


i will say i have come to HATE pocket queens. i seem to lose every time.
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SunMo

i'm still not sure I'm going to play.  i can't stand doing something unless i know i'm going to do it correctly and not look stupid.  that means knowing how to stack chips correctly and all that shtein that the internet does for you.
I'm the Anti-Christ. You got me in a vendetta kind of mood.

Tomahawk

So what kind of poker do you chodes play? Is it just Hold 'Em? I like to play that every once in a while, but it's more fun to sit around a octagonal table with seven friends and play a variety of different variations of five (5) and seven (7) card stud (I don't like draw games so much) poker.

One of my favorite games is called Arkansas (or at least we call it that). It's a five card stud game in which the high hand a low hand split the pot. So theoretically you could take the entire pot with a straight to the five or even a flush with seven high. The kicker about the game is after all the cards have been dealt out and the "final" round of bets have been made and called, the dealer counts to three and if you are so inclined you can choose to throw away a card. If you get rid of your hole card, the new one is dealt face down. If you get rid of one of your shown cards, the new one is dealt face up.

rjs246

Pocket jacks and queens are hands that almost everyone plays too hard. You know for a fact that if someone calls you they have at least one over card. You're extremely lucky if they have an underpair. If you bet big and get a call with queens and an Ace of King is on the board, which happens a lot, you're more or less farged. They sure do look pretty though.
Is rjs gonna have to choke a bitch?

Let them eat bootstraps.

rjs246

Quote from: Sun_Mo on November 17, 2005, 01:00:41 PM
i'm still not sure I'm going to play.  i can't stand doing something unless i know i'm going to do it correctly and not look stupid.  that means knowing how to stack chips correctly and all that shtein that the internet does for you.

Don't worry about looking stupid. Half the people there don't know what they're doing and as long as you know how to play you'll have an advantage b/c your level of discomfort will be read by the experienced players as weakness, which it isn't as long as you just sit back and play poker and don't worry about what those obese anti-social douche nozzles think of you. Trust me, most card players are worthless sacks of crap outside of a poker room. If they judge you poorly, that probablt means you're doing something right.
Is rjs gonna have to choke a bitch?

Let them eat bootstraps.

PoopyfaceMcGee

I've gotten pretty good at throwing away Q's at just the right time.

Wingspan

Quote from: Tomahawk on November 17, 2005, 01:00:42 PM
So what kind of poker do you chodes play? Is it just Hold 'Em? I like to play that every once in a while, but it's more fun to sit around a octagonal table with seven friends and play a variety of different variations of five (5) and seven (7) card stud (I don't like draw games so much) poker.

One of my favorite games is called Arkansas (or at least we call it that). It's a five card stud game in which the high hand a low hand split the pot. So theoretically you could take the entire pot with a straight to the five or even a flush with seven high. The kicker about the game is after all the cards have been dealt out and the "final" round of bets have been made and called, the dealer counts to three and if you are so inclined you can choose to throw away a card. If you get rid of your hole card, the new one is dealt face down. If you get rid of one of your shown cards, the new one is dealt face up.

hold'em is the main game. but we've played omaha hold'em from time to time. that game in infuriating. same go arounds as texas hold em. but yuou get 4 pocket cards, but can only play 2. which means in theory you can get dealt four aces and still lose.

i'll play any stud game too. but draw games are weak, and not as fun once you get into the hold em stuff.
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SunMo

Quote from: rjs246 on November 17, 2005, 01:05:43 PM

Don't worry about looking stupid. Half the people there don't know what they're doing and as long as you know how to play you'll have an advantage b/c your level of discomfort will be read by the experienced players as weakness, which it isn't as long as you just sit back and play poker and don't worry about what those obese anti-social douche nozzles think of you. Trust me, most card players are worthless sacks of crap outside of a poker room. If they judge you poorly, that probablt means you're doing something right.

thanks for the pep talk.  i'm going to put you on my prayer list.


I'm the Anti-Christ. You got me in a vendetta kind of mood.

rjs246

Quote from: Tomahawk on November 17, 2005, 01:00:42 PM
So what kind of poker do you chodes play? Is it just Hold 'Em? I like to play that every once in a while, but it's more fun to sit around a octagonal table with seven friends and play a variety of different variations of five (5) and seven (7) card stud (I don't like draw games so much) poker.

I actually just learned to play hold'em a few years ago. I grew up playing stud and draw but for years no one else I knew played cards at all. Now that it's popular it's easier to find people to play, but there is almost no one who plays stud anymore and even fewer people who play 'home rules' stud. It all seems to be casino rules, which is fine, but is a much different game than the one I grew up playing.
Is rjs gonna have to choke a bitch?

Let them eat bootstraps.

PoopyfaceMcGee

7-card stud gives much bigger advantage to smart people.
I like to play 7-card before I get drunk, then switch to hold 'em.