I'm totally a criminal.
congratulations.
Thank you. I have to walk through a chinese restaurant to get there. the room next to it is filled with ma jong players and after 10pm they all sing and chant very loudly. I think they're trying to summon the muppet monster from Big Trouble in Little China.
Glad to hear that kind of thing is alive and well. If you get yourself killed, can I have your Sugar Momma ladyfriend? If she's cute, that is.
Quote from: Diomedes on November 03, 2005, 10:41:20 AM
Glad to hear that kind of thing is alive and well. If you get yourself killed, can I have your Sugar Momma ladyfriend? If she's cute, that is.
I think that would be a rather hysterical way to die. In some back room, low-stakes poker room. And no, you can't have my lady friend. I would imagine that she would die of grief because I rule so hard.
Never hurts to ask. I'm building up a stable of womens.
Quote from: rjs246 on November 03, 2005, 10:39:42 AM
Thank you. I have to walk through a chinese restaurant to get there. the room next to it is filled with ma jong players and after 10pm they all sing and chant very loudly. I think they're trying to summon the muppet monster from Big Trouble in Little China.
One of the best movies ever! :yay
was this guy at your table?
(http://media.bladezone.com/contents/film/interviews/james-hong/lopan5.jpg)
do they provide sexual favors in this underground room?
isnt that cum dumpster from mannequin in big trouble in little china
Quote from: T_Section224 on November 03, 2005, 12:10:05 PM
do they provide sexual favors in this underground room?
Actually there has been some hubbub about a massage parlor downstairs from this place. I won't be doing any investigative research, but if I hear a definitive yay or nay I'll be sure to report.
If it's a definitive nay, you'll report anyway?
rjs, I just want you to know: if you ever need bail money, or abortion money, I'll do whatever I can for you. So now, you don't have to worry so much about that, which is nice.
It sounds like some of you jerks play cards (Wingspan and FF come to mind) and it sounds like some of you don't but were momentarily employed to write about it.
I play a lot and love to whine about my bad beats and laugh at how fat, unattractive and hygenically challenged most card players are. If anyone has anything to say say it here. Assbags.
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.
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.
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.
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!
I don't play poker. I would lose. Carry on.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I've gotten pretty good at throwing away Q's at just the right time.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What's the difference between casino rules and home rules for stud poker?
Anyone ever play at the Chestnut St. Social Club?? Used to be down in Chinatown, I heard it moved to Barclay Street though. Don't know the new address or phone number, if anyone's got it can you shoot me a PM??
Quote from: Tomahawk on November 17, 2005, 01:12:44 PM
What's the difference between casino rules and home rules for stud poker?
At home usually the high cards leads the betting and has the option to check after the first three cards are dealt.
In the casino game, the low card is forced to 'bring in' forcing some action on the table. Plus at home there is usually a 'spread limit' menaing that you can bet anywhere from, say, a quarter up to three dollars and can raise in whatever increment you want. In the casino it is hard to find spread limit games (although they do exist). It's usually 5/10 or something similar where each round of betting is a predetermined amount.
Casino rules suck and can lick my sweet ass; therefore, next time I am at a casino I will continue to dominate the craps table.
maybe im just old bitter and paranoid but does anyone else not trust playing poker on the internet??
You never know which players are sending cards to each other through FTP when you play in the internets. Don't do it, it's too risky.
Quote from: ice grillin you on November 17, 2005, 02:28:07 PM
maybe im just old bitter and paranoid but does anyone else not trust playing poker on the internet??
I've seen some ridiculous shtein playing online, but the fact is that I've seen equally ridiculous shtein playing live. You can just play more hands and a lot faster online so the number of times you see things that "shouldn't" happen is increased. Whatever. Live is more gooder.
You mean more better.
more gooder.
Don't tell me my business devil woman.
Quote from: rjs246 on November 17, 2005, 02:39:11 PM
Don't tell me my business devil woman.
Call the fire department! This one's out of control!
poker is cool and all, but its alittle annoying when its on 10 different channels at all times of the day and night. id rather play or watch pool.
I agree that we're going through a little bit of poker overload right now, but it's good for me. I finally have people to play cards with.
its like cancer...
Gambling addiction is a disease.
A kick ass disease. And I'm dying of awesome.
That's good to hear.
That you're dying.
I just snorted with laughter. Well struck. Douche.
So I played in small $25 tourney last night. 30 people. My buddy was the third or fourth person to bust out and since it was cheap I decided to play stupid and try to lose so I could sit at the cash table and socialize a little. Well, of course, my retarded cards hit and I doubled up three times. (Seriously, I went all in blind, and turned over 10-7 off suit and rivered a straight. I raised with J-9 suited and got reraised all in and called and rivered two pair. Retarded.)
Anyway, I got to the final table (in the mean time my buddy dropped $200 at the cash table in about 45 minutes and left. Nice hanging out with ya!) and finally started playing smart. Big mistake. I pushed some dude all in when I had cowboys. He called with A-5 off suit. Flop is nothing, turn is a 5, river is a 5. He appologized profusely. Idiot. I then flopped trip jacks and had some douche suck out a flush. Ended up in sixth place. Out of the money. 3 hours of poker, no money to show and a buddy who is now $200 light.
I plan on doing this again VERY soon. Possibly tonight in fact. Ha.
id rather spend 200 on hookers, booze and coke...at least everyone goes home happy after that.
And oozing with herpes.
Quote from: mussa on November 18, 2005, 10:46:12 AM
id rather spend 200 on hookers, booze and coke...at least everyone goes home happy after that.
How much is an 8 ball going for in your neighborhood,
mussa? And hookers, what kind of money are you paying for services?
I ask because where I live, $200 for booze, coke, and whores gets you Popov, dirty powder, and as
The Jerk says, disease.
It was all in theory...a horrible theory
i might get away with some bankers club, baking soda, a warm water hand job and possibly the clap. if im lucky.
i just held AK in an online tourney.
i had 3 Kings with the ace...and got beat by a farging flush that i didnt even see coming. 1 seat from the payout.
i'm an idiot.
You suck.
You should always see a flush coming. Many players will play almost any suited cards.
QuoteYou should always see a flush coming. Many players will play almost any suited cards.
The bane of all math-smart poker-players' existence...
i played with a couple guys during the Sunday of the championship games.
it was 6 guys, $20 buy-in, winner take all. i made it to the final three, i got there by knocking a guy out with a terrible beat on the river after he called an all-in bluff.
and in true poker fashion, i'm all in, I had Ace Queen with Queen 4 and 3 on the flop. the other guy, he stayed in with 10 and 2, unsuited, and even called my all-in, WTF? next card? 10. river card? fargin 10. unbelievable.
You got nailed by the Brunson. Loser.
my mom said i'm not a loser, i'm confused.
Quote from: FFatPatt on February 14, 2006, 08:11:24 AM
You should always see a flush coming. Many players will play almost any suited cards.
my mistake was not raising enough after the flop, after my 1st king came up with an 8 and a 3.
poker is cool
other peoples poker stories and gay poker lingo are not
take your rules and slang and late night cigar smoking staories and shove em up your asses
98% of your posts are slang....
im the slang banga
I'm playing in a tournament Thursday night (well, just about every thursday night, actually) I've finished in the top six every time I've played in this thing (20-35 people) but haven't ever won (second once, 3rd-6th five or six times). farging annoying.
stop sucking.
Indeed.
What has been the pot at 3rd place?
Quote from: rjs246 on February 14, 2006, 01:10:51 PM
I'm playing in a tournament Thursday night (well, just about every thursday night, actually) I've finished in the top six every time I've played in this thing (20-35 people) but haven't ever won (second once, 3rd-6th five or six times). farging annoying.
everyone cares
Quote from: hbionic on February 14, 2006, 04:29:25 PM
What has been the pot at 3rd place?
for a multi-table tourney? if there are only 3 pay seats, then it's usually 10% of the pot. 25% for second, and 65% for 1st.
for your normal 8-10 person table, 3rd place is 2x the buy in, 2nd is 3x, and 1st is 5x
every place varies though.
Quote from: MDS on February 14, 2006, 04:30:20 PM
Quote from: rjs246 on February 14, 2006, 01:10:51 PM
I'm playing in a tournament Thursday night (well, just about every thursday night, actually) I've finished in the top six every time I've played in this thing (20-35 people) but haven't ever won (second once, 3rd-6th five or six times). farging annoying.
everyone cares
QuoteA thread to talk about poker
Wingspan...
MDS is just popping his collar because rjs isn't spending Thursday nights IM'ing him and instead, spending it with the boys.
Quote from: hbionic on February 14, 2006, 04:53:11 PM
Wingspan...
MDS is just popping his collar because rjs isn't spending Thursday nights IM'ing him and instead, spending it with the boys.
i'd be willing to be he would hold a :CF sanctioned record for most unreplied to posts.
ouch
So ever since I came on here and talked about how well I had been doing in the thursday night tourneys I haven't once made the final table. Serves me right I guess. Luckily every week I've been playing in the $1-3 No Limit cash game and winning my tourney buy-in back before I leave. So basically I was breaking even and having nights of free entertainment.
Well last night I busted out in 11th and sat down at the cash game with $200. Hoping to win back my buy-in of $30 plus maybe some extra money for the weekend, but not planning on staying all goddamned night. Well, after an hour I was up $100. After 2 hours I was up $400 and I walked out at midnight with a $611 profit. Word. Not bad for three and a half hours of work.
It'll all be gone by monday, of course.
Hookers and booze, rjs. Hookers and booze.
not bad rjs.
last weekend we had a game with some friends, only 5 of us, more to sit around, bullshtein, drink, and get away from the wives. i left up 80 bucks, i feel bad because they're friends, i feel good because i like taking their money.
to boot, two weeks before i was in a cash tourney, about 20 guys with $50 buy-in, i walked out up $70. as long as i keep bringing cash home the wife doesn't give me crap about playing, i like it.
600 dollars, big whoop
T, never feel bad about taking money at the poker table. Just remember that any of them would gladly leave you $80 light if it meant a free night of dinnering and boozing.
600 dollars is almost what i spent on a round of patron last night
Well then share with us poor broke folk, jerk.
i won $2 on a scratch off today. i'm quitting my job.
Good. That'll give you more time to come to Boston and get your liquor on.
i entered into an online WPT qualifier last night, 1500 people...i made it to 159...
first payseat? 150....yek. i'll go at it again next week as well.
Quote from: T_Section224 on March 03, 2006, 08:17:22 AM
not bad rjs.
last weekend we had a game with some friends, only 5 of us, more to sit around, bullshtein, drink, and get away from the wives. i left up 80 bucks, i feel bad because they're friends, i feel good because i like taking their money.
to boot, two weeks before i was in a cash tourney, about 20 guys with $50 buy-in, i walked out up $70. as long as i keep bringing cash home the wife doesn't give me crap about playing, i like it.
farg that, T. John pays more in taxes than I gross a year. farger.
Quote from: rjs246 on March 03, 2006, 12:59:35 PM
T, never feel bad about taking money at the poker table. Just remember that any of them would gladly leave you $80 light if it meant a free night of dinnering and boozing.
ok, honestly, i didn't feel that bad except the fact that of the two down the most, one is a teacher about to get married and the other works in hr and just had his third baby.
Quote from: MadMarchHare on March 03, 2006, 01:11:36 PM
farg that, T. John pays more in taxes than I gross a year. farger.
imagine if he didn't work in nyc? i love working for a ny investment firm but doing it in de, similar wages, less taxes, ha!
Quote from: rjs246 on March 03, 2006, 01:04:05 PM
Well then share with us poor broke folk, jerk.
that doesn't mean i'm rich, it means i'm stupid
Hm. Valid point. But at least you were drunk.
Up $150 this evening. Whoopee.
care factor: negative 147
That's great dude.
nice job rjs
Quote from: rjs246 on March 10, 2006, 01:20:43 AM
Up $150 this evening. Whoopee.
Make a note to yourself that skipping out of work early = money.
Question: Would you ever admit to us if you lost money? I'd assume the losers you play with every Thursday wouldn't be so quick to have you around every week if you actually went home a winner every time, as you claim.
Quote from: FFatPatt on March 10, 2006, 07:33:33 AM
Quote from: rjs246 on March 10, 2006, 01:20:43 AM
Up $150 this evening. Whoopee.
Make a note to yourself that skipping out of work early = money.
Question: Would you ever admit to us if you lost money? I'd assume the losers you play with every Thursday wouldn't be so quick to have you around every week if you actually went home a winner every time, as you claim.
True, I typically don't get excited enough about losing to tell people about it, but if you care I'll also post when I lose, which is just as often as I win.
As far as the losers I play with, this is a fairly professional poker room, no matter how shady. that has 15-30 players of all skill levels every night of the week. Some of the dudes up there are disgustingly good. Others, not so much. And to be honest I got extremely lucky to walk out a winner last night. When I steam-rolled last week it was because I was playing with VERY tight players and had the room to play loose and make moves without the frea of being called. Last night was a completely different story. There were a bunch of drunk and insane whackjobs at the table that would play with anything and call with anything. I made a bad play on one hand and went from about $200 to $40.
The great thing about playing with maniacs though is that when you have a good hand it's easier to make money. I tripled up (plus a few bucks) when I was at $40. Won a few hands and then won a $390 pot when I more than doubled up with Aces (versus Kings). I raised to $61 before the flop with the Aces, simply to pick up the $70 that was already in there and got two callers. When you've got $200 in the pot before the flop, when the blinds are $1 and $3, you know you're playing with animals.
Anyway, I'll post when I lose if anyone cares, but I told certain persons I would give an update on the procedings last night so cram it.
i played at the borgata last weekend in a tourney. 1000 or so people. i was done in about 10 minutes. my first 3 hands? A-K, A-A, K-K....and then i went to the blackjack table. meh
Quote from: Wingspan on March 10, 2006, 08:19:31 AM
A-K, A-A, K-K....and then i went to the blackjack table. meh
did you win with any of them? I get extremely nervous with AA because it seems like I only win with it like 25% of the time. Which I understand is just bad luck, but whatever.
Assuming my work schedule allows it, I'll be at the Borgata this weekend too, haven't been there in at least 6 months.
Quote from: phattymatty on March 10, 2006, 09:13:09 AM
Quote from: Wingspan on March 10, 2006, 08:19:31 AM
A-K, A-A, K-K....and then i went to the blackjack table. meh
did you win with any of them? I get extremely nervous with AA because it seems like I only win with it like 25% of the time. Which I understand is just bad luck, but whatever.
Assuming my work schedule allows it, I'll be at the Borgata this weekend too, haven't been there in at least 6 months.
nope, lost all three. which is why i was gone so fast.
i wasnt jumping all in. i thought i was trapping with each hand. i wasnt. A-A for me seems to be a terrible hand. i tend to lose with it a lot. i played a few months ago, got A-A twice in 5 hands, lost both hands to someone starting with 7-2, and 4-4.
Quote from: Wingspan on March 10, 2006, 09:17:21 AM
i wasnt jumping all in. i thought i was trapping with each hand. i wasnt. A-A for me seems to be a terrible hand. i tend to lose with it a lot. i played a few months ago, got A-A twice in 5 hands, lost both hands to someone starting with 7-2, and 4-4.
Everyone thinks they're a genius...
You "trap" with premium hands like that LESS often than not. You should play the strong hands extremely strong as a rule and trap only as an exception and preferably when you know who you're playing with (which you don't the first few hands of a tournament). People like to stay in for the first few hands if they can, and you gave them an excuse to do so. For shame. You deserved to lose.
Quote from: FFatPatt on March 10, 2006, 09:52:16 AM
Quote from: Wingspan on March 10, 2006, 09:17:21 AM
i wasnt jumping all in. i thought i was trapping with each hand. i wasnt. A-A for me seems to be a terrible hand. i tend to lose with it a lot. i played a few months ago, got A-A twice in 5 hands, lost both hands to someone starting with 7-2, and 4-4.
Everyone thinks they're a genius...
You "trap" with premium hands like that LESS often than not. You should play the strong hands extremely strong as a rule and trap only as an exception and preferably when you know who you're playing with (which you don't the first few hands of a tournament). People like to stay in for the first few hands if they can, and you gave them an excuse to do so. For shame. You deserved to lose.
when does your poker book come out?
Soon. It's entitled, "You're Not That Smart, So Don't Try to Be"
Quotei played at the borgata last weekend in a tourney. 1000 or so people. i was done in about 10 minutes. my first 3 hands? A-K, A-A, K-K....and then i went to the blackjack table. meh
While I'm sure you could have played the hands better, that is just bad f'ing luck.
Quote from: rjs246 on March 10, 2006, 10:04:22 AM
Quotei played at the borgata last weekend in a tourney. 1000 or so people. i was done in about 10 minutes. my first 3 hands? A-K, A-A, K-K....and then i went to the blackjack table. meh
While I'm sure you could have played the hands better, that is just bad f'ing luck.
Since when do you play "good cop", buttlick?
Quote from: FFatPatt on March 10, 2006, 09:52:16 AM
Everyone thinks they're a genius...
hardly.
i've been playing poker on a regular basis for about 5 years. and i can tell you i probably don't have one quarter of the experience needed to considered a good player. i'm
ok. i've won some that i should have lost, and lost some i should have won. play a hand however you want, sometimes the cards think differently.
i realize, but am not adept to the different styles of play required for a ring game, single table tourney, and a multi table tourney.
sometimes, i play a hand wrong.
i entered the same tourney at the borgata 8 months ago, and i came in 5th (out of a smaller field, about 400 or so). so whether it's 5th left, or 5th out...play however you want, there are no "rules" to dictate how you play each hand, it's your own choice.
I don't have sympathy for much. But losing with AK, AA and KK is brutal.
Quote from: rjs246 on March 10, 2006, 10:04:22 AM
Quotei played at the borgata last weekend in a tourney. 1000 or so people. i was done in about 10 minutes. my first 3 hands? A-K, A-A, K-K....and then i went to the blackjack table. meh
While I'm sure you could have played the hands better, that is just bad f'ing luck.
yeah, no doubt i could have. dont care
too much. my online play funds my casino play. there are so many crap players online, that i can
almost gaurantee that i will place 2nd in any given 10 person table ($5 or $10 table, the pricier ones have higher quality of play on them). my problem in the last one was i mistakenly took my "online" play to a real table. and that doesnt work.
Online play and live play are completely different beasts. Took me a while to figure that out.
Quote from: rjs246 on March 10, 2006, 10:19:29 AM
Took me a while to figure that out.
just like your sexuality huh?
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phatty pwns all
Um... wow.
+$172 playing online tonight. At least something went right this weekend.
Quote from: rjs246 on March 12, 2006, 10:08:11 PM
+$172 playing online tonight. At least something went right this weekend.
i played 4 single table tourney's today. and i pretty much have broken even i think i am +$15. meh.
I don't like playing on line anymore if I can help it but when the boredom hits hard, like tonight, I'll load $50 into my account and play at the .50/1, $100 max buy-in, no-limit cash game. Tonight went well. Cashing out $222 when you only invested $50 ain't too shabby.
Actually I haven't lost playing cards since the night of the superbowl. I feel a big comeuppance approaching.
Quote from: rjs246 on March 12, 2006, 10:34:57 PM
I feel a big comeuppance approaching.
you just lived through 48 hours of it, congrats
Haha. Good point. I guess I'll keep playing like a donkey and expecting to get paid.
seems to be working so far. get while the getting is good.
Found out I might not be able to make my thursday game, and this NCAA draft thingy will get in the way of my backup plan, which was to go tomorrow night. So I'm playing online again. And again I'm winning. I just bluffed my way to a $99 pot. Internet peoples are stupid.
Done. Up $108 on the night. Bringing my 11-day total to slightly over a grand.
Comeuppance?
Which site do you play?
Party Poker. Its a fargign land mine of monkeys and insanity, but its been treating me well this week.
Comeuppance. As predicted. Down $200.
Update. I just made every cent that I lost back playing online. G'night, bitches.
actually, make that every cent I lost. plus $100. oops.
nice job jerk
Quote from: rjs246 on March 15, 2006, 01:58:39 AM
actually, make that every cent I lost. plus $100. oops.
It doesn't count until you cash it out, nitz.
I cash out every time I finish playing online. no point in letting good money sit in my account when I've got bills to pay.
don't you realize that everyime you dupe your comeuppance, you just make it angry and more vengeful
I've played enough cards to know exactly that. especially since I made my money back by shamefully sucking out on a dude who had flopped a boat. I hit a higher boat on the turn after all of our money was in. The poker gods are not gonna like that. Not one bit.
Holy shtein. Down about $150 last night so I left. Got a message at about 12:30 that I didn't check until this morning. Turns out the room I go to was robbed by some douche last night. Dude came in with a billy club (what?) and a piece that may or may not have been real and made off with several grand. A bunch of dudes must have lost a lot of money. farged up.
So, you lost $150, but had you won, you probably would have had your winnings stolen and been beaten with a billy club? What you're saying is that you basically won. Again. Congrats.
Yeah I certainly don't feel the slightest bit bad about my evening in spite of the losses. I wonder what happens now. I guess they install a peephole and hire security. Which sucks. They just had a new locking system installed too.
The thing that was cool about this room is that its almost entirely dudes between 20 and 35. Young people hanging out. Perfect target for a robbery, but its probably going to be a little more tense from now on. shtein.
dude, that comeuppance you keep avoiding is getting angry.
this is just like Final Destination, except more gay
More gay than final destination? Whoa. I'd better invest in some anal bum covers.
unless they are made from stainless steel, they won't help you
Don't worry. They are.
People always be stabbing me.
came in 3rd at a 50 person tourney last night online. won $100 for it. i shoulda been knocked out in 5th place. but i gave a guy a bad beat pulling a 3rd 4 on the river after pushing all in vs his 10's.
Quote from: rjs246 on March 24, 2006, 08:09:28 AM
Holy shtein. Down about $150 last night so I left. Got a message at about 12:30 that I didn't check until this morning. Turns out the room I go to was robbed by some douche last night. Dude came in with a billy club (what?) and a piece that may or may not have been real and made off with several grand. A bunch of dudes must have lost a lot of money. farged up.
damn that sucks, it was bound to happen though, once a few dudes start losing money and getting angry they tend to become a little more loose lipped about shtein like that. several high stakes games down here have been robbed in the last few weeks, and usually the word gets out because someone's wife or girlfriend finds out about all the money their losing and tells friends and then it eventually spreads to shady people. was there no security before this?
They JUST put in an automatic lock system this week. But they didn't have any muscle and they didn't even have a peep hole on the door so I guess you could say the lock system had a few loopholes.
Also, I got some more details this morning.
Dude came in with a pillow case with eyeholes on a billy club and a pistol with the godfather 2 style towel silencer. He rapped the owner (dude in his 20s who actually just qualified for the televised Boston vs New York Poker Challenge) in the face with the billy club and cleaned out the money box. Had everyone empty thier wallets onto the tables and get on the floor. Some dude had just cashed out for $1500. farging intense.
<knocking on door>
"Who is it?"
"It's a bunch of goons here to threaten you with blunt force trauma and steal your money!"
"What? I'm not letting you in!"
"Uh... candygram?"
"Oh, nice... <unlocking door> Come on... AGGGHGHGHHHHH!!!!"
That's two SNL references in the past 10 posts...
rjs... not sure if you have, want, or need a guard, but I found these (http://cgi.ebay.com/NFL-Philadelphia-Eagles-Poker-Card-Guard-Cover-Chip_W0QQitemZ6249516132QQcategoryZ573QQcmdZViewItem) on ebay in case you do....
Quote from: DemonchildrenOnTurf on March 24, 2006, 10:23:44 PM
rjs... not sure if you have, want, or need a guard, but I found these (http://cgi.ebay.com/NFL-Philadelphia-Eagles-Poker-Card-Guard-Cover-Chip_W0QQitemZ6249516132QQcategoryZ573QQcmdZViewItem) on ebay in case you do....
That's rather awesome. I may actually buy one.
Quote from: rjs246 on March 25, 2006, 10:22:43 AM
Quote from: DemonchildrenOnTurf on March 24, 2006, 10:23:44 PM
rjs... not sure if you have, want, or need a guard, but I found these (http://cgi.ebay.com/NFL-Philadelphia-Eagles-Poker-Card-Guard-Cover-Chip_W0QQitemZ6249516132QQcategoryZ573QQcmdZViewItem) on ebay in case you do....
That's rather awesome. I may actually buy one.
I did last night :yay
So, I played in a home game one night with some punks from NCSU, organized by this kid named Jon Turner. It was only a $25 buy-in, 12-person tourney... no big deal at all. I finished 3rd and won my money back, but I thought most of the kids were clowns, so I didn't go back. Well, that same kid either graduated or dropped out and is now playing professionally in Vegas. He's currently sitting 38th in chips at the WPT Bellagio 5-Star World Classic (http://www.ultimatebet.com/learn-poker/bellagio-2006-blog.html).
I knocked him out of said tournament, too. So, if he ever wins anything big, I'll have more undeniable proof of my severe awesomeness overload.
I got an email from Mark "Big Daddy" Hanna a few weeks ago. Apparently he loved the article I did on him when I was a poker blogger.
Why didn't you hold on to that gig?
I don't know shtein about poker, so they fired me after a few weeks.
Ah. Fatal flaw.
So, H.O.R.S.E. is all the rage now, getting the acolades from the pros, and the press is eating it up. Has anyone played it yet? I'm probably hosting a tourney for it in a couple weeks, because I'm so cutting edge.
For the less informed:
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So, what does H.O.R.S.E. stand for?
Hold'em
Omaha
Razz
Seven Card Stud
Seven Card Stud, Eight or better.
How are HORSE tournaments played? What are the rules?
Player's buyin to the tournament in the usual way, and the game begins as Hold'em. At set intervals, the game changes to the next poker variation. The intervals can be done each time the blinds increase, with each rotation of the dealer chip, or something entirely different. The timing is completely up to the tournament director who creates the rules. The game continues to change throughout the tournament, following the progressions until we are left with one man standing...or sitting...with all the chips and wads of cash in front of him.
Rotating games in tournament format?
Meh. I guess it's supposed to be a better test of overall poker skills or something, but it seems kind of stupid to me.
The big thing with the pros is that it will keep the nobodies from winning all the TNLHE tourneys on ESPN. I imagine if I was one of the best in the world, but the only thing that mattered was a bracelet that can only be won in a single game once a year, and it was won by losers like rjs, I'd be pissed too.
A couple of the pros are already spouting how this will be the game that means the most, considering a) the $50,000 buy-in, and the fact that a nobody has less chance to dominate 5 separate games. But it really sounds like whining to me.
I think its kind of brilliant. So few people really understand all five of those forms of poker (the chapter on 7-card hi-lo in Supersystem is some of the most confusing crap I've ever read, in spite of the assertion by Sklansky and several other professionals that hi-lo is the easiest game on earth to make money at). I think this is a pretty fascinating way to see who the best all-around poker players are.
sounds stupid to me.
even poker pros are whiney now? jeez.
this is basically a really expensive dealers choice game.
btw...i placed 4th in an online tourny monday night with 1000 entrants ($2 buy in, with re-buys and ad ons for 30 minutes, which i only did the add on) and won $600
biggest online payout for me personally.
but now the problem lies that you will constantly play now until you can hit that $600 again because you proved you can get there, but you most likely lose alot more in the process
I think evrybody gets a nice taste or more of that kind of green, when you play long enough. If you cant see the person in front of you and their playing style, your not playing real poker. Its majority luck on those sites
Quote from: reese125 on July 06, 2006, 10:38:45 AM
but now the problem lies that you will constantly play now until you can hit that $600 again because you proved you can get there, but you most likely lose alot more in the process
I think evrybody gets a nice taste or more of that kind of green, when you play long enough. If you cant see the person in front of you and their playing style, your not playing real poker. Its majority luck on those sites
not really, playing poker on like is one of the easiest ways to steal money from idiots.
this was a 1000 person tourny with a $2 entry. i would have to play the same tourny 300 times to lose it all the same way.
agreed that online and in person are two entirely different games. but online is a different skill. and over the last year on line i know i have won more than lost by a considerable 80/20 split. the same cant be said for me in person.
online poker is not all luck. it's easy to pick out the idiots within 5 hands of any tournament style table. online ring games are as close as you can get to real live poker.
i guarantee you that i will win $600 more before I lose $600 (not at one shot mind you, these grand tourneys take a long time) while playing online, since i have not deposited into my online account since february, and i have played at least 2 small (10 person) tourny's a week. i have constantly withdrawn every few weeks, leaving some in there for more buy ins.
what site do you play on
pokerroom.com
those $2 games sound nice...do they offer them all the time?
they have about a dozen, maybe more price points. they have freerolls with payout, Lucky $1 ($1 entry, but it's 2500 people and it's not worth it unless you really have nothing to do for a while)
i normally play the $5.00+.50 10 person table, or the $10+1 table.
those same "idiots" are the ones that stay when they have junk, and are nothing but river rats who wind up taking your money because another flush came on the river. same old story with majority of the websites.
when I see an Ace and King come out on the flop 95+ percent of the time...we have a problem. Not to mention a flush hovering around 85+ percent. Please dont tell me its the website too because Ive seen em all. They all collect off whats calles the rake--when everyone stays with that ace low kicker and keep tossing in dollars--the sites collect.
Keep telling yourself you'll win more...god bless ya and i wish ya luck
playing tourny poker online is simple. and playing online is really not that much different than playing in person. people just forget once then get on line. granted you can see a physical tell, but you can read a player.
1) never do more than call when you are way out of position.
2) fold 90% of the hands you think may amount to something. so many people online get a K-6 and start raising it 4 hands into the tourney. they may get luck and draw K-K on the flop, or even 2 pair. However, 9 times out of 10 your K-6 is shtein, and will stay that way, especially when there are 9 other people sitting with you. these people that orgasm over the 1st face card they see will lose eventually.
3) again...fold, fold, fold. the only exception to the K-6 rule is if you are the small or big blind, and there has yet to be a raise. check, or call the big blind, and then hope to catch something. that's it, no other exceptions.
4.1) agressive play. on the 10% or less of the hands you do play. bet big. do NOT minimum raise it, EVER. it's a weak Hoyda move. match the pot, or double the blind. the exeption is when you want to trap or slow play. last night, i was dealt K-K on the button, i called the blinds. thats it. K-10-3 came up, someone hit the pair of tens, i KNEW i had that won. i never raised, i let mr 10's eventually push his chips all in. with me nothing but calling him. i won, easily.
4.2) going all in is actually a sign of weakness in online play about 75% of the time on a table more than half full. never push all in off the deal. it's always a coin flip. when you bet big, make it big enough to get your opponent to think about it without going all in.
5) if 2 people are already "all in", fold. i don't care what you have. the lone exception is if you have a 4:1 chip lead on both players.
6) it's very easy to bluff online, if you follow the "fold, fold, fold, fold" way of playing. simply by folding so much, everyone else will assume you have a strong hand when you do play all the time. if you play 90% of your hands, you can not bluff.
7) patience.
Quote from: reese125 on July 06, 2006, 11:36:12 AM
those same "idiots" are the ones that stay when they have junk, and are nothing but river rats who wind up taking your money because another flush came on the river. same old story with majority of the websites.
when I see an Ace and King come out on the flop 95+ percent of the time...we have a problem. Not to mention a flush hovering around 85+ percent. Please dont tell me its the website too because Ive seen em all. They all collect off whats calles the rake--when everyone stays with that ace low kicker and keep tossing in dollars--the sites collect.
Keep telling yourself you'll win more...god bless ya and i wish ya luck
i don't play the ring games because of the constant rake. tournament is the only way to go online.
yeah definitely the best thing about online tourneys is that is teaches you how to fold for when you're in a live game. i played on party poker for a long time and hit a bad spell a few months ago.
switched to pokerstars now and have been playing the 45 person $6 or $10 tournaments and haven't finished worse than 7th, which is in the money already.
i have noticed that betwen the two sites, pokerstars has much better players. you still see the idiots that refuse to get rid of thei ace high and go all-in, but much less than partypoker. all in all i find pokerstars much better.
in other poker news, a new underground pker club just started in dc about 3 months ago. i did well in their opening tournamnt and won a free half-year membership ($2,500 value). anyway, it's been going well for the last few months and then all of a sudden last week the dude running it took off in the middle of high stakes night with everyones cash.
i wasn't there that night so i lost nothing but some people lost some major coin. it's weird because he put a lot of time and effort into getting his thing started, getting a nice core group of players, had a full staff going. he even has the lease at this penthouse apartment where we play for a full year.
i'm sure he made off with a good $50K just from what people had invested that night. but considering he was probably making a good $15K a week at least off of the rakes it doesn't make much sense. we've come to the conclusion that someone was probably after him and he decided to take off. it's like some shtein from the movies. he was a great con man, i went out for drinks with him a couple of times and his stories were good.
oh yeah, his name was matthew mcdermott. we're guessing he took matt damon's real first name and his character's last name from rounders.
but some regulars that lost money now took over and the place is still going strong. i go more for the free johnny walker blue available than anything.
i would agree...the absolute bottom of the barrell as far as player quality is found on partypoker.
i've used pokerroom.com currently, but have also played on hollywoodpoker, and full tilt...all three are much better than partypoker
Ultimate Bet.
Me and Mrs. Demon have been playing ParadisePoker.com for several years. A lot of idiots in the lower stakes game, but in the higher stakes it's a pretty good game except for the few.
phil helmuth has a chance to tie johhny chan and doyle brunson in braclets today....hes second in chips in the no limit 5k hold em event
i love helmuth. the guy is a friggin master at getting under peoples skin to the point they lose all focus and just start calling to call him.
Quote from: Wingspan on July 06, 2006, 03:49:43 PM
i love helmuth. the guy is a friggin master at getting under peoples skin to the point they lose all focus and just start calling to call him.
He also lets his share of people get under his skin, though.
thats why i cant figure out if i want him to win or not....i love when hes a cocky a-hole and being one of the all-time bracelet holders will put him on another stratosphere in terms of that
but his meltdowns are great too....
i like helmuth a lot too, but marcel luske is at the final table too, he's 3rd in chips, and he's probably my favorite. it's hard not to root for him.
did Mike Matasow cry yet?
i dont know why, but i enjoy it every time phil ivey loses.
Quote from: Wingspan on July 06, 2006, 04:26:42 PM
i dont know why, but i enjoy it every time phil ivey loses.
Racist!
yup definitely (http://www.philaflava.com/forum/images/smiles/dcracistemo0mp.gif)
Quote from: FFatPatt on July 06, 2006, 04:27:32 PM
Quote from: Wingspan on July 06, 2006, 04:26:42 PM
i dont know why, but i enjoy it every time phil ivey loses.
Racist!
nah. but i find the "pat burrell strike out looking" expression he gets amusing.
i'm currently in 3rd place out of 2144 players.
phil came in second yesterday.
Congress doesn't like what you're doing. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060711/ap_on_go_co/internet_gambling)
You suck at teh internets.
Sounds like the $260 I made last night came just in time.
Quote from: rjs246 on July 11, 2006, 07:26:14 AM
Sounds like the $260 I made last night came just in time.
I was thinking I might cash out this afternoon. Just what I need is a passed law locking me away from my $$.
does anyone knwo how many shuffles it takes to properly insure that a deck of cards is mixed
Quote from: ice grillin you on July 11, 2006, 08:11:12 AM
does anyone knwo how many shuffles it takes to properly insure that a deck of cards is mixed
I've heard 7. But it has to depend on the way they're shuffled, IMO.
Quote from: ice grillin you on July 11, 2006, 08:11:12 AM
does anyone knwo how many shuffles it takes to properly insure that a deck of cards is mixed
It is ensured by seven.
Quote from: Geowhizzer on July 10, 2006, 11:51:40 PM
=http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060711/ap_on_go_co/internet_gamblingCongress doesn't like what you're doing. (http://doesn't%20like%20what%20you're%20doing.)
Hopefully, I'm not too late. I just emptied my sportsbook and poker accounts.
Although my gut feeling is that this doesn't pass, based on the exceptions for internet lotteries and on-line horse race betting.
Stupid government.
check out this $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. final table that starts at midnight tonight
Seat- Player (Bracelets) Chip Count
1- Jim Bechtel (1) $841,000
2- Doyle Brunson (10) $1,227,000
3- Chip Reese (2) $1,756,000
4- Dewey Tomko (3) $438,000
5- Andy Bloch (0) $934,000
6- T.J. Cloutier (6) $351,000
7- David Singer (0) $745,000
8- Patrik Antonius (0) $13,000
9- Phil Ivey (5) $885,000
Quote from: ice grillin you on July 14, 2006, 02:32:04 PM
check out this $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. final table that starts at midnight tonight
Seat- Player (Bracelets) Chip Count
1- Jim Bechtel (1) $841,000
2- Doyle Brunson (10) $1,227,000
3- Chip Reese (2) $1,756,000
4- Dewey Tomko (3) $438,000
5- Andy Bloch (0) $934,000
6- T.J. Cloutier (6) $351,000
7- David Singer (0) $745,000
8- Patrik Antonius (0) $13,000
9- Phil Ivey (5) $885,000
/quote]
Wow. A lot of good players with a lot of chips. I guess it does reward overall poker skill better than other games.
Quote from: ice grillin you on July 14, 2006, 02:32:04 PM
check out this $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. final table that starts at midnight tonight
Seat- Player (Bracelets) Chip Count
1- Jim Bechtel (1) $841,000
2- Doyle Brunson (10) $1,227,000
3- Chip Reese (2) $1,756,000
4- Dewey Tomko (3) $438,000
5- Andy Bloch (0) $934,000
6- T.J. Cloutier (6) $351,000
7- David Singer (0) $745,000
8- Patrik Antonius (0) $13,000
9- Phil Ivey (5) $885,000
I would love to watch that table....
Quote from: Father Demon on July 14, 2006, 02:51:04 PM
I would love to watch that table....
You gotta believe ESPN is filming tonight. Granted, it won't air for another month or two...
doyel finished in 8th after being crippled by calling an all in and losing a coin flip...gthen he was busted two hands later
ivey finished 3rd after someone called his all in with a straight flush draw and hit
its now down to bloch and reese...whove been heads up for 8 hours...bloch had a near 6-1 chip lead at one point....reese has since doubled up twice and now has a 4-3 lead...
i hope espn does this table justice when they air it...
so i found out that this bar about 10 miles from my house does three no limit games on sundays, and the winner of each one gets a trip for 2 to either vegas, cancun, or orlando. me and my girl went yesterday, probably 12-15 tables of eight people started, and we both made the final table. neither won though.
since we were there so long, we stayed around for the second game, i got beat out pretty early because i hated my table, and my chick ended up winning it.
free trip to vegas yo.
farger.
:yay :yay
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13908555/
Quote from: phattymatty on July 18, 2006, 11:50:51 AM
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13908555/
There's a lesson to be learned from this story.
Borrow lots of money from your family and spend it on entry fees to poker tournaments? I think that's a lesson everyone can benefit from. Especially my parents.
US Justice Department charges U.K. online gambling company BetOnSports PLC CEO with racketeering, fraud, conspiracy (//http://)
that will never stick. but christ its terrifying.
I"m playing in a tourny tomorrow night. 50 dollar buy in, 25 dollar re-buy/add-on...Usually around 50 players, 4-5 tables, every othehr Wednesday.
I got 4th two weeks ago, took home 310 dollars (215 after buy in, add on, and 20 tip to dealer). I should have placed a lot higher, I was 2nd or 3rd in chips at the final table, some guy went all in with Ace-8 off suit, I called with Ace-Queen, and of course he hit the 8...Crippled me, I fought back a little but ended up in 4th on another bogus hand.
Quote from: Munson on July 19, 2006, 01:23:59 AM
I"m playing in a tourny tomorrow night. 50 dollar buy in, 25 dollar re-buy/add-on...Usually around 50 players, 4-5 tables, every othehr Wednesday.
I got 4th two weeks ago, took home 310 dollars (215 after buy in, add on, and 20 tip to dealer). I should have placed a lot higher, I was 2nd or 3rd in chips at the final table, some guy went all in with Ace-8 off suit, I called with Ace-Queen, and of course he hit the 8...Crippled me, I fought back a little but ended up in 4th on another bogus hand.
Just like Phil Hellmuth, you are always the best player at the table, but never actually win, huh?
Suuuuuuure.
Quote from: Munson on July 19, 2006, 01:23:59 AM
I"m playing in a tourny tomorrow night. 50 dollar buy in, 25 dollar re-buy/add-on...Usually around 50 players, 4-5 tables, every othehr Wednesday.
I got 4th two weeks ago, took home 310 dollars (215 after buy in, add on, and 20 tip to dealer). I should have placed a lot higher, I was 2nd or 3rd in chips at the final table, some guy went all in with Ace-8 off suit, I called with Ace-Queen, and of course he hit the 8...Crippled me, I fought back a little but ended up in 4th on another bogus hand.
You should have tried to pair up the Queen or Ace. Then you would have won.
The Ace wouldn't have helped after the other guy hit his 8. Duuuuuuuuuuh.
Quote from: Munson on July 19, 2006, 01:23:59 AM
I"m playing in a tourny tomorrow night. 50 dollar buy in, 25 dollar re-buy/add-on...Usually around 50 players, 4-5 tables, every othehr Wednesday.
where's this tourney at?
Not sure of the exact location because my friend alwasy does the driving because it's a tourny that he and his dad are regulars at, I just started going about 2 months ago. I do know it's off the Macdade Boulevard exit on 95....that's usually when I stop paying attention.
Quote from: Munson on July 19, 2006, 01:23:59 AM
I"m playing in a tourny tomorrow night. 50 dollar buy in, 25 dollar re-buy/add-on...Usually around 50 players, 4-5 tables, every othehr Wednesday.
I got 4th two weeks ago, took home 310 dollars (215 after buy in, add on, and 20 tip to dealer). I should have placed a lot higher, I was 2nd or 3rd in chips at the final table, some guy went all in with Ace-8 off suit, I called with Ace-Queen, and of course he hit the 8...Crippled me, I fought back a little but ended up in 4th on another bogus hand.
if he was short stacked, then you should have known he's push all in on an ace high. since you didnt have a pair there...you should have folded as it is a coin flip at that point
No, I knew he'd push all in with an Ace, no matter what the kicker was, and that my Ace-Queen was probably the better hand. Ace Queen vs. Ace-any kicker lower is NOT a coin flip, it's more like 70-30 that I'll win. He got lucky.
I'm going to win some money tonight, rather than pretend I outplayed everyone and lose money.
I'd say "wish me luck", but I don't need it.
Quote from: Munson on July 19, 2006, 06:14:29 PM
No, I knew he'd push all in with an Ace, no matter what the kicker was, and that my Ace-Queen was probably the better hand. Ace Queen vs. Ace-any kicker lower is NOT a coin flip, it's more like 70-30 that I'll win. He got lucky.
it's not true to 70/30...thats heads up odds. which you werent with other players left. it's about 2:1
the odds are even as to what will come on the 5 cards dealt the 8 or the queen.
am basing this on a guess of 5 players left at the table
with 5 people seated AQ is only 26% to win, while A8 is 19.4% off the deal, knowing no other cards. but at least 6 other cards dealt.
AQ may be a good hand as a short stack to push all in on, it's not a good enough hand to call an all in on when you are faced with losing most of your chips.
he played it right.
"My" A9 (playing for a friend that had to go home while he was still in) lost to AJ heads up on the final hand last night... so all is right with the world. I guess I shouldn't talk about my QQ getting busted by 42, though.
I played like ass last night anyway. I'm out of practice, I guess. Luck had nothing to do with it overall.
Quote from: FFatPatt on July 19, 2006, 06:26:53 PM
I'm going to win some money tonight, rather than pretend I outplayed everyone and lose money.
I'd say "wish me luck", but I don't need it.
Except I didn't lose money, I won 4th place prize of 320 dollars. But, okay.
As for laast night, it was up and down all night. Won a few hand searly, then got a lot of shtein cards and I was down to 2100 in chips....after a lot of hard work and a couple of Pocket Aces, I built it up to about 14-15,000....Unfortunatley all the hard work was for nothing as I pushed all in with, what do you know, Ace Queen and my friend next to me had pocket jacks and called....I hit an ace, but he hit a jack. Not much you can do about that, coin flip, just didn't win the race. I think I finished 23 or 24th out of about 55. Meh, better luck next time.
And yes, Wingspan, I made the right play with my Ace Queen at the last tourny, I put my money iin with the best hand and just got unlucky against Ace-8.
I don't think you can correctly call anything in or about poker hard work.
I worked pretty hard to gain chips back, playing hands as best I could to get em....The two pocket aces were both huge helps, as I trippled up from 2100 the first time then doubled up with them a second time.
Tripling up and doubling up with aces does not qualify as hard work, even by poker standards, which are pretty friggin low.
Quote from: rjs246 on July 21, 2006, 07:34:17 AM
Tripling up and doubling up with aces does not qualify as hard work, even by poker standards, which are pretty friggin low.
Exactly. Hard work is grinding it out with a series of semi-bluffs, stealing blinds, and tough, correct decisions.
You can't expect a kid who's not even 21 yet to understand poker to its fullest, though.
I don't think you can correctly call anything in or about poker hard work.
i wonder what a coal miner with one eye on the falling rock and the other on the canary would think about the hard working men and woman who play poker
Always sticking up for the working man, eh Michael?
im out for everbody whos working for the weekend everybody who wants a little romance
Yes, I'm only 18 and have only been playing poker for a little over 3 years now, I must not understand anything about it.
Or, Besides the money I won on the pocket aces, I also managed to take 5,000 more in chips doing all the hard work and playing correctly....Not to mention not getting your aces cracked seems to be pretty hard work itself anymore with the way people call with shtein and get lucky....When I doubled up with them, it took a lot of slow playing after flopping trips to get him to call me and double me up....
Nope, I understand nothing about poker, at all. FF, you're still better then everyone at everything...at least in your own head. ^-^
fyi for people who play online
starting yesterday many sites have upgraded their software with geo location tracking and have banned US citizens from playing....and if you have money that you were holding but havent cashed out youre SOL....
Quote from: Munson on July 21, 2006, 03:25:07 PM
Yes, I'm only 18 and have only been playing poker for a little over 3 years now, I must not understand anything about it.
Or, Besides the money I won on the pocket aces, I also managed to take 5,000 more in chips doing all the hard work and playing correctly....Not to mention not getting your aces cracked seems to be pretty hard work itself anymore with the way people call with shtein and get lucky....When I doubled up with them, it took a lot of slow playing after flopping trips to get him to call me and double me up....
Nope, I understand nothing about poker, at all. FF, you're still better then everyone at everything...at least in your own head. ^-^
Reading is fundamental. I simply said that you're not "working hard" if you're drawing good hands and winning with them. It's easy to play your best hands well, and slow-playing is not "hard work".
As aformentioned, nothing about poker is hard work.
Quote from: FFatPatt on July 21, 2006, 04:03:57 PM
Quote from: Munson on July 21, 2006, 03:25:07 PM
Yes, I'm only 18 and have only been playing poker for a little over 3 years now, I must not understand anything about it.
Or, Besides the money I won on the pocket aces, I also managed to take 5,000 more in chips doing all the hard work and playing correctly....Not to mention not getting your aces cracked seems to be pretty hard work itself anymore with the way people call with shtein and get lucky....When I doubled up with them, it took a lot of slow playing after flopping trips to get him to call me and double me up....
Nope, I understand nothing about poker, at all. FF, you're still better then everyone at everything...at least in your own head. ^-^
Reading is fundamental. I simply said that you're not "working hard" if you're drawing good hands and winning with them. It's easy to play your best hands well, and slow-playing is not "hard work".
Reading is fundamental. I simply said that BESIDES the money I won with aces, I added 4 or 5 thousand more chips in between those two hands bluffing, making the right calls, etc...And yes, slow playing correctly can be hard work in a poker game.
stop talking about your poker exploits...for real...no one cares....and the more you pimp your game the less believable it sounds...
Oh, I'm sorry...I thought this thread was called "a thread to talk about poker", my mistake. :=)
I guess discussing Gavin Smith winning the circuit event at the WSOP this past tuesday would be more exciting to you?
I don't need to "pimp my game", I'm in this thread to talk about poker. And, I guess surprisingly, I'll talk a lot about my expierences at poker games.
That being said, I'm hopefully playing in a cash game tomorrow night or Sunday night...nothing big, 10 dollar buy in...pot usually gets to around 150-200, depending on re-buys and amount of players.
Quote from: Munson on July 22, 2006, 05:06:41 AM
That being said, I'm hopefully playing in a cash game tomorrow night or Sunday night...nothing big, 10 dollar buy in...pot usually gets to around 150-200, depending on re-buys and amount of players.
rebuy's in a cash game? now i know you're full of it. there are no rebuys in a cash game, you come in with cash and you play with cash.
i wasnt sure if you were full of before. now i know you are.
Actually, my monthly cash games have unlimited buy-ins. Just a bunch of buddies getting together for poker, and we all buy-in for $10 at the beginning of the night. If you go broke, you can buy in for another $10. It allows you to play poker, and not worry about having to lose a shteinload of money at a time. It also keeps the game friendly, without having to watch your buddy lose $100 on a hand.
The main point of our cash games is to drink beer, bust balls, and see how the poker turns out. If it's not serious poker, then limited buy-ins and re-buys are the way to go.
Last night I was in a tournanment, and lost my $20 buy in on a real bad call. I was pissed at how poorly I played the hand, so I went home and played online. Walked away +$180. I'll take that.
Quote from: Father Demon on July 22, 2006, 10:57:49 AM
Actually, my monthly cash games have unlimited buy-ins. Just a bunch of buddies getting together for poker, and we all buy-in for $10 at the beginning of the night. If you go broke, you can buy in for another $10. It allows you to play poker, and not worry about having to lose a shteinload of money at a time. It also keeps the game friendly, without having to watch your buddy lose $100 on a hand.
I agree with all of this, but I think that Wingspan's point was that if you're playing cash, there is no collective 'pot'. There is money on the table but you aren't playing for all of the money like you are in a tourney.
In other words, Munson is full of it. But you know, 19 year old kids totally know everything about poker and everything else. I know I did when I was 19.
Quote from: Father Demon on July 22, 2006, 10:57:49 AM
The main point of our cash games is to drink beer, bust balls, and see how the poker turns out. If it's not serious poker, then limited buy-ins and re-buys are the way to go.
This is what I miss about my current poker playing. Its for higher stakes and largely against people I don't know. It isn't nearly as much fun. More lucrative, but not as much fun by a long shot.
Quote from: rjs246 on July 22, 2006, 11:17:19 AM
Quote from: Father Demon on July 22, 2006, 10:57:49 AM
Actually, my monthly cash games have unlimited buy-ins. Just a bunch of buddies getting together for poker, and we all buy-in for $10 at the beginning of the night. If you go broke, you can buy in for another $10. It allows you to play poker, and not worry about having to lose a shteinload of money at a time. It also keeps the game friendly, without having to watch your buddy lose $100 on a hand.
I agree with all of this, but I think that Wingspan's point was that if you're playing cash, there is no collective 'pot'. There is money on the table but you aren't playing for all of the money like you are in a tourney.
yep
there are two styles...cash game, and tourny style.
in a cash game, your 5 chip peice is worth $5 of real money etc...and you can get up and walk away at any time up or down. there's no such thing as a rebuy or add on in a cash game.
however, there is nothing i hate more than a rebuy tournament. i played a tourny at the Taj 3 months ago, and some guy went all in 4 times in 15 minutes because of an unlimeted rebuy in the first hour. yeah, he played like a douche and lost $200....but that gave such an uneven chip balance to the two chip leaders that knocked him out that the rest of the table was farged. myself included.
rebuys and add ons anywhere but in someones home game are weak.
Quote from: Wingspan on July 22, 2006, 11:47:05 AM
[some guy went all in 4 times in 15 minutes because of an unlimeted rebuy in the first hour. yeah, he played like a douche and lost $200....but that gave such an uneven chip balance to the two chip leaders that knocked him out that the rest of the table was farged. myself included.
I agree 100%. Unless you happen to be the guy taking out douchebag, you end up on the under side of even.
I don't play re-buys aor add-ons in tourneys. Ever.
Quote from: Father Demon on July 22, 2006, 11:54:37 AM
Quote from: Wingspan on July 22, 2006, 11:47:05 AM
[some guy went all in 4 times in 15 minutes because of an unlimeted rebuy in the first hour. yeah, he played like a douche and lost $200....but that gave such an uneven chip balance to the two chip leaders that knocked him out that the rest of the table was farged. myself included.
I agree 100%. Unless you happen to be the guy taking out douchebag, you end up on the under side of even.
I don't play re-buys aor add-ons in tourneys. Ever.
of course ^-^
I lost $40 on a single hand today. It was a $1/2 table, I had pocket aces, so I raised to like $5 pre-flop, he called, garbage came out, blah blah. he called my $10 raise twice and pulled a flush on the river (A of hearts) with a 4-8 of hearts. thats what i hate about online poker. so my 3 aces got beat by 4-8. farger.
Quote from: Wingspan on July 22, 2006, 10:26:22 AM
Quote from: Munson on July 22, 2006, 05:06:41 AM
That being said, I'm hopefully playing in a cash game tomorrow night or Sunday night...nothing big, 10 dollar buy in...pot usually gets to around 150-200, depending on re-buys and amount of players.
rebuy's in a cash game? now i know you're full of it. there are no rebuys in a cash game, you come in with cash and you play with cash.
i wasnt sure if you were full of before. now i know you are.
Aha, okay so I'm full of it. No, like Demon said, it's just a bunch of guys gettin together to play some poker. Everyone buys in for 10 dollars, and all the cash goes into the box that the chip set is in, and you get 10 dollars in chips in return. Red-.25 White-.50, Green-.75, Black-1.00....Don't ask me why we use those chip amounts....since we only get 10 dollars in chips, I've wanted to use .10, .25 cent blinds, but no one really sees that every big blind is putting in 1/20th of your stack, so they don't really agree with me. We use the .75 cent chip mainly for convienience, can call/make larger bets and use a smaller amount of chips.
Unlimited re-buy's, 10 dollars is the max you can buy in for....So yes, rebuys in a cash game. we don't play our cash games like the ones on TV, sorry to dissapoint you. The mail reason to play is just to get together and have a good time and play some poker and win a little money.
The "pot" is just all the cash put into the little chip set box we have...there is no first place gets this, 2nd place gets this, and so on...Anyone can cash out at anytime, though we put restrictions on that so someone doesn't show up, win a huge pot, and then suddenly get a stomach ache or have to go home. A lot of nights I'll cash out with like 17.25, or 32.75, 45. 50, etc....Eventually enough people lose that'll get down to 2 or 3 people and sometimes someone has to go home when it gets to be 1, 2, 3 o clock in the morning, so we all cash out.
The small home tourny's I play in suck, I don't like them as much as the cash games...everyone at the tourny's are cheap and want to only play 5 dollar buy in, making first place get like 25 bucks, if we're lucky to have that many people at the game. And we'll start at a certain time and cut-off re-buys at a certain time for those games, or we'll just limit it to one re-buy period, whoever goes out first can re-buy and thats it.
I prefer playing in the 50 dollar tourny every two weeks just because I know I'm better then at least half hte people there, and if I play well enough I can definately win 1st place, which is usually around 1400 dollars.
this monkey is going to play in the main event.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zRKi19ocXw&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fdeadspin%2Ecom%2F
holy shtein, so that 21 year old who borrowed money from his parents to play won the No-Limit Hold'em Short Handed event too.
2 bracelets already , one third place, and almost a million and a half. just since the world series events started.
People with youth and money make me angry. Do any of your parents want to give me money for poker tournaments? PM me their phone number and address and I'll give them a call.
I entered a live tournament with about 30 players with no actual playing experience(on-line or live), just watching hold'em tournaments on cable for a year or so. I was lucky, played extremely well, and won that tournament.
The next time I played a live tournament was in Atlantic City and I didn't fare so well. That's it, no on-line experience.
hellmuth won his 10th bracelet this morning
what event?
Surfing.
i think it was nl hold em with re buys
seems kinda cheesy to me...
re buys = the gay
Rebuys are the gay. Having said that, once you get past the rebuy period it's the same game.
Hellmuth is a little bitch, but a farging outstanding poker player.
i cant believe they have re buys in the world series...if its a random home game then whatever...but to have re buys at the biggest event there is seems kinda weak to me
I came in 5th out of 75 at a tourney down the street from me last night.
Quote from: ice grillin you on July 26, 2006, 09:53:51 AM
i cant believe they have re buys in the world series...if its a random home game then whatever...but to have re buys at the biggest event there is seems kinda weak to me
most of them don't, but they have like 50 events, only a handful at most have re-buys.
i made up my mind that next year i'm definitely going out for a week during the WSOP.
I have made my mind up about that as well. Enter one of the cheaper tourneys and see how I do.
can i come with?
do you give road head?
only on days ending in 'Y', lol!
I was there for the 2004 and 2005 WSOP. Pretty neat time. Got to meet and talk to several professionals. The biggest jackbag of them all was Johnny Chan. That guy was a di ck. Phil Hellmuth was also kind of a jerk but I expected that. Chris Ferguson was very, very, very cool. I talked to him for probably 20 minutes just shooting the shiat. I also got to meet and sit down and talk with Doyle Brunson. That man could not have been any nicer. Gus Hanson was very cool. Phil Ivey was friendly but not overly nice or anything. Howard Lederer had like a security guard guy with him. As soon as play was over, Lederer would just take off to some room. He would not speak to anyone. Negraneau (sp?) was sneaky. I saw him playing, but never saw him during the breaks. Other guys I saw but did not speak with (no interest in talking to them really) James Woods, John Favreau, Toby Mcguire, and Ben Affleck.
Kind of a funny story about Ben Affleck. He was sitting right near a rail on the outer edge of tables, so there was a huge crowd around him. It had to be distracting to play. But anyways, he looked like shiat. Actually, he looked like I do on any given weekend during the winter (even though he was in Vegas in July) He had on a ratty pair of jeans and a t-shirt that was way too small. His shirt was so small, that when he leaned on to the table he had a massive case of plumbers butt going. It was pretty nasty but the girls seemed to love it. He did not seem to notice. At one point, Ben apparently needed to stretch. He stood up and leaned back to stretch. When he did, that little shirt creeped up his pale white, hairy stomach. His fly was down and he just scratched away. Me describing this story does not do it justice. You just simply had to see it. He looked like such a hoosier. It was pretty damn funny to see.
As for me, Iwasthisclose to playing in the main event. I won a seat in a $3000 satellite tourney. Made it to heads up. winner plays in the Main Event, loser doesn't. We were pretty close in chips. My opponent makes a decent sized raise pre-flop. I look down to see A6c. I come over the top of him for about 3Xs his raise. He calls. Flop comes A 2 9 rainbow. I am to act first and check. He makes about a pot sized bet. I come over the top and go all in. He calls and turns over K2 off. Turn was an 8. River was a K. I was down to my last $4000 and lost on the next hand when I moved all in with a pair of 7s. He had QJ and spiked a J on the turn. Sometimes I really hate this game. :boom
jesus christ this madsen kid came in third in another event.
Seven Card Stud High-Low 8/OB
he's second in player of the year rankings now, just in the last two weeks.
Holy shtein. It looks like we might have a new best player in the world. That's amazing.
2 bracelets and 2 thirds so far. incredible.
Incredible is right. I'm genuinely in awe of this kid. And murderously jealous of his talent and newfound wealth.
Quote from: rjs246 on July 27, 2006, 02:46:07 PM
Incredible is right. I'm genuinely in awe of this kid. And murderously jealous of his talent and newfound wealth.
If you actually did murder him, you could steal his money, but you'd still be talentless.
That's fine. I'd rather be rich and talentless than poor and talentless. It's a definite step up.
regardless of how good he is at poker, he's got to be on some sort of previously unheard of lucky streak.
So I played heads up against one of my buddies last night.
We started off playing 2/4 limit. Each had $100. Limit is my best game. He's a much better no-limit player.
Anyway, I won his $100 from him in about an hour and the agreed to play no-limit. Only fair.
Well, he only bought $100 more, so I had a 2 to 1 money advantage, which, in no limit, is a pretty friggin big advantage. Anyway, I won that $100 from him. And another. And another. And another. He didn't stop rebuying until I had won $1000 from him. You read that right.
He's on a payment plan. He gave me a 30% down payment. He'll be paying my tourney buy-ins for a while.
that's hilarious....
so this guy volunteers to go into head-to-head match at a 6-1, 7-1, 8-1, even 9-1 disadvantage with chips? Your friend is a dumbass! :-D
Quote from: Father Demon on July 28, 2006, 08:55:35 AM
that's hilarious....
so this guy volunteers to go into head-to-head match at a 6-1, 7-1, 8-1, even 9-1 disadvantage with chips? Your friend is a dumbass!
Yeah, the last two times he bought in it was for $200, but still, he was 6:2 and then 8:2. Idiot.
norm mcdonald is in 7th place right now at the main event. and Laura Prepon is in 16th.
she's hot.
Well, neither of them are in the top 100 anymore.
P.S. No one mentioned that Hellmuth won himself another bracelet and is behind that Madsen kid for WSOP 2006 POY.
P.S. No one mentioned that Hellmuth won himself another bracelet and is behind that Madsen kid for WSOP 2006 POY.
another as in his 11th??
Quote from: ice grillin you on July 31, 2006, 08:44:38 AM
P.S. No one mentioned that Hellmuth won himself another bracelet and is behind that Madsen kid for WSOP 2006 POY.
another as in his 11th??
Nevermind. You did mention it. You rule. This is the 5 seconds of glory you've always hoped for.
my wife had some of her college friends and spouses down to our place for the weekend. the girls wanted to play poker, i was too drunk to get in, but she ended up winning $100 from them. if she could have tripled that it may have paid for the food and booze for the weekend, oh well.
College friends and spouses, girls wanting to play poker, people drinking, and you play poker for money?
Fag.
Quote from: Father Demon on July 31, 2006, 11:58:25 AM
College friends and spouses, girls wanting to play poker, people drinking, and you play poker for money?
Fag.
yeah, silly me not wanting to see one of the dudes in the buff. the guys that did play were so loaded that they were among the first out.
I play better when I'm drunk. Then again, I'm convinced I do everything better when I'm drunk.
Quote from: rjs246 on July 31, 2006, 12:46:52 PM
I play better when I'm drunk. Then again, I'm convinced I do everything better when I'm drunk.
assuming everyone else is drinking, i agree, but in the cast of chicks were two pregnant women, and one who regularly meets at AA, so she doesn't drink, then there is my wife who was half and half, another drink or two and she would have been over the edge, but she kept it together long enough to take home the pot.
lennox lewis got taken out by a girl last night.
daniel negreanus comments on his podcast are pretty funny....
"the level of play in this tournament is the worst ive ever played in."
"one guy grabbed money from the pot to get change."
"the play after the flop is so terrible, im going to play anything remotely playable."
"i feel like i got a read on every single player."
George Lopez is in 6th place.
is that really the comedian or another lopez? i can't tell.
I have no idea.
just announced that the winner will get over $12M.
And at least a dozen people will make $1M.
Quality of the tournament is all down hill, thanks to the many internet poker sites. They all send as many people as they can afford, hoping against hope that the winner is from their site. Best advertising ever.
If people still had to pay $10K to get in, the quality would still be very high. Of course, the number of entrants and the pot would be much, much lower, making it less of an event that everybody and their mother knows about.
Not sure which is worse.......
I like the fact that for the rest of our lives there will probably be one "professional" that wins it for every 20 times that amateurs do.
even the word professional isn't going to mean anything much longer. all you have to do is win one big one. take hachem for instance. he only came last year because some of his buddies were playing. and now he's considered one of the best players? really the only reason he gets to play with the world's best is because he won $7M last year and never has to work again for the rest of his life.
i think it gives regular schmucks something to go for. and probably lose all their money doing so in the process.
It's like accelerating Powerball. Cool!
basically the main event is now your average casino
I've never heard so many professionals bitch so much about other players. That used to be reserved for Hellmuth and Hellmuth alone. Now everyone is complaining about the donkey plays in this tourney. It's not surprising. As Matt pointed out, there are SO MANY amateurs in this thing that the odds are completely stacked in their favor. On top of that there's this mentality that super-aggressive play is the way to win so players will play any hand at any time. This event has become more like a circus than a poker tournament.
So I was playing a tourney last night online with a $20 buy-in. It was about midnight when I started, which was probably a mistake in hindsight.
Anyway, 45 people at the buy-in, pays top 7. All night I was floating between #2 and #10, but never out of the top 10. When it gets down to the final 8, I am in 6th place, and the 8th place dude only has 400 chips left, with a $25 ante, and blinds are 150/300. 2 more hands, this guy is done and we're all in the money.
I'm on the button, and get dealt AK of spades, a sweet hand. Everyone before me folds, so when it's my turn to act it's just me and the blinds. I am in 6th place in chips at this point, and I was going to just call to milk myself into the money. But, with just the blinds left in the hand, I decide to go all-in and steal the blinds/ante. I figure even IF one of the blinds hits any pair besides Aces or Kings, I'm close enough to even money to win to take the gamble.
Small blind folds, and big blind calls with about 1/4th of his chips. Not what I wanted to see. But, when he flips an 8 10 off suit, I think I'm OK.
The flop comes 7 9 J rainbow, with one spade. CRAP. I'm destroyed. Nothing on the turn or the river, and I end up in 8th place.
I probably should have milked the hands to ensure I get in the money, but the hand was too sweet. I don't question my play too much, but how in the hell do you bet 1/4 of your chip stack, potentially giving up your position in chips (he was #2 in stack, but if he lost he would have been ~ 5th place) on an 8 10 off suit?
Bummer for me.
Quote from: rjs246 on August 02, 2006, 08:15:23 AM
there are SO MANY amateurs in this thing that the odds are completely stacked in their favor
700 of the 3700 or so people left are from Pokerstars. I would bet each of the other big poker sites have about the same amount.
Joseph Hachem (2005 main event champ) is in 27th place. Negreanu is in 29th.
Quote from: Father Demon on August 02, 2006, 09:51:43 AM
I probably should have milked the hands to ensure I get in the money, but the hand was too sweet. I don't question my play too much, but how in the hell do you bet 1/4 of your chip stack, potentially giving up your position in chips (he was #2 in stack, but if he lost he would have been ~ 5th place) on an 8 10 off suit?
Bummer for me.
The only reason he would do that is because he thought you were full of shtein.... He probably shtein himself for a second when he saw AK of spades and thanked his lucky stars after that. Either that or he's an expert card counter and knew exactly what was coming. :paranoid
Live cards are (roughly) 35/65 to AK. He had a chance to knock someone out without risking a ton of chips. He wasn't a favorite, but I've seen worse decisions.
I thought too, but to risk 1/4 of your stack when you are in 2nd place, risking ending up around 5th or whatever?? I'm usually fairly reckless, but I can't imagine making that call with that shtein.
Just me, though. I'm over it now.
Down to 1,159 players. negraneu is in 3rd. it would be pretty cool if after all of this "a pro will never win it again" talk, negraneu ends up taking it.
and the only celebrity to make it through is some guy from godsmack.
Quote from: phattymatty on August 03, 2006, 10:37:52 AM
Down to 1,159 players. negraneu is in 3rd. it would be pretty cool if after all of this "a pro will never win it again" talk, negraneu ends up taking it.
and the only "celebrity" to make it through is some guy from godsmack.
Fixed, and yes, it would be cool if Negreanu won it.
guess negreanu wasnt lying in his blog
Is the 21 year old still alive?
is the 21 year old the kid who went to maryland
No.
no, he's from cali, and he busted out in one of the day 2s
Quote from: ice grillin you on August 03, 2006, 10:56:03 AM
guess negreanu wasnt lying in his blog
what did he say? and where's his blog?
speaking of blogs, there's a really good poker one here (http://wickedchopspoker.blogs.com/)
Quote from: phattymatty on August 03, 2006, 12:14:49 PM
no, he's from cali, and he busted out in one of the day 2s
Jeff Madsen was eliminated from the Main Event when his K-Q didn't improve against A-2. He finished up this year with two bracelets in four final tables for a total of almost $1.5 million in his first ever appearance at the WSOP.
Not bad.
Quote from: phattymatty on August 03, 2006, 12:15:59 PM
here's a really good poker one here (http://wickedchopspoker.blogs.com/)
I hear GF used to write a poker blog, until they realized he knew less than nothing about poker.
current main event standings...top ten and notables only
Rank Name Chip Table Seat
1 Dmitri Nobles 549,200 46 6
2 Yuriy Kozinskiy 443,300 137 4
3 Jon Lave 405,400 135 1
4 Ken Jacobs 375,300 149 5
5 Daniel Pelletier 334,300 34 7
6 Daniel Negreanu 331,000 11 9
7 Jason Strasser 319,000 38 4
8 Terris Preston 313,300 56 4
9 Brian Crespin 309,000 55 1
10 Paul Wasicka 308,300 134 7
15 Alex Balandin 274,800 54 7
32 Matt Maroon 208,900 38 1
36 Dan Heimiller 203,300 56 5
37 Jeff Cabanillas 203,000 2 8
38 Phi Nguyen 198,100 117 9
44 Jeff Lisandro 194,800 156 10
45 Eric Lynch 194,500 144 8
68 Shannon "Bluffforrent" Shorr 174,700 20 3
69 Allen Cunningham 172,900 135 6
75 William Hill 170,000 147 5
95 David Chiu 154,700 137 5
101 Paramjit Gill 151,100 8 7
102 Humberto Brenes 148,300 142 1
105 John Gale 146,500 42 5
146 Ted Lawson 135,000 150 5
160 Ted Forrest 130,900 54 9
204 Mike Mcclain 116,900 135 7
216 Joe Hachem 114,100 7 5
223 David Pham 112,300 154 2
284 Hieu "Tony" Ma 98,500 136 8
306 Stuart Paterson 92,600 21 3
359 Josh Arieh 85,600 4 5
365 Bob Feduniak 84,600 125 1
387 Nenad Medic 81,900 150 2
413 Cyndy Violette 79,000 12 10
427 Chad Layne 77,600 155 6
428 Juan Carlos Mortensen 77,600 140 4
433 Surinder Sunar 77,300 4 2
467 Pete Giordano 73,000 6 2
512 Darrell Dicken 69,300 75 6
523 Bryan Micon 68,100 15 4
526 Hoyt Corkins 67,900 47 3
537 Annie Duke 67,000 126 10
544 Cecilia Mortensen 66,600 55 5
573 Freddy Deeb 64,500 21 10
575 Andrew Palmer 64,400 43 9
613 Tom McEvoy 60,500 25 2
623 Aaron Bartley 59,500 151 9
625 Paul Wolfe 59,500 57 10
644 Richard Brodie 57,800 156 5
645 Allan Jaffrey Shulman 57,700 25 5
652 Hans "Tuna" Lund 56,900 52 4
670 Chris Ferguson 55,200 37 7
733 Prahlad Friedman 49,200 128 9
743 Kathy Liebert 48,500 68 7
768 David Grey 46,200 133 10
782 Melissa Hayden 44,900 55 8
799 Barny Boatman 43,000 55 7
805 Bill Baxter 42,600 121 3
855 Danniel Larsson 39,300 68 8
867 James Peera 37,800 44 7
894 Jesse Martin 35,500 28 8
1032 Phil Ivey 23,400 138 1
1078 Tex Barch 19,800 19 2
1083 Layne Flack 19,500 137 10
1108 Casey Kastle 16,300 140 7
1159 Jonathan Diamond 1,100 148 4
oh and heres joanna krupa...john blaze ish...hopefully she get s alot of camera time when espn broadcasts
(http://i.a.cnn.net./si/multimedia/photo_gallery/0608/gallery.poker/images/krupa.jpg)
yeah i'm guessing she'll make it on tv
Apparently, I am the king of making sure all my opponents at the final table finish in the money.
3 online tournies over the last couple days. 45 people at the beginning, and Top 7 in the money. All three times, I have finished 8th.
I am the Lord of teh suck.
note for next time: don't go all-in when in 8th place.
Quote from: phattymatty on August 04, 2006, 12:34:34 PM
note for next time: don't go all-in when in 8th place.
That's really easy on paper.
Actually, the last two times I was in 8th place out of 8, so I needed to do something or I would be blinded out within 4 or 5 hands.
The first was the story I told earlier about my AK suited being busted out by an 8T offsuit.
I'm going to play again shortly.
WSOP chip leader doesnt want to win, wants second place (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryDate=20060808&name=poker&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab1pos1/)
thats a load of crap. you don't become a hollywood agent if you don't want to be famous.
plus, allen cunningham is second right now, so chances are gold will come in second whather he tries or not.
Quote from: reese125 on August 09, 2006, 10:19:00 AM
WSOP chip leader doesnt want to win, wants second place (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryDate=20060808&name=poker&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab1pos1/)
What a douche. He's obviously lying, because he knows he's a lucky bastich and will likely not win regardless.
I used to play against Gold--the chip leader--all the time on bodog (he's ari). I really wasn't that impressed by him. He is always near the tourney leaderboard there because he plays in so many tourneys, but he usually busts early. I'm incredibly suprised he's done this well.
Anyone here play on Pokerstars? I've won the $20 128 person heads up tourney 2 of the last 3 days--doing well avoiding suckouts I suppose. It's run at 2:05. Took it down today and usually play at 9:05 as well, but I'm going to take a pass on that tonight. But if anyone ever wants a game, the sn is Rollins4Prez (yea, I know, I know).
The guy who claimed he didn't want to win... won.
rough night tonight, i lost about $25.
about $20 of it came on river cards, once when i had A A and i let an A 2 stay in at the flop and paid for it when he pulled a 2 2 8 on the flop
and another was just a bad beat, i don't remember why and that's probably a good thing.
if you dont know, the 2nd best show on TV is on right now aside from Entourage....world series of poker main event 2006
espn
Kido Pham is one lucky bastich.
Blinds were 1000/2000 and he raises 7000 in middle position with 2H 6H.
Fine.
Pocket Queens makes the call.
The flop comes 10D JH 4H.
Pham checks, the Queens bets 20K.
Pham check-raises to 60K
The Queens goes all-in.
And Pham calls. WTF
Lucky bastich gets a flush on the river
He's on a flush draw, and a lousy one at that. One of the worst plays I've ever seen watching poker on TV.
That's not a bad play at all in many situations.
Quote from: FFatPatt on October 05, 2006, 11:51:26 AM
That's not a bad play at all in many situations.
They weren't that far apart in stack size.
He was a 2 to 1 dog (at worst) after the flop if he assumed he was up against a big pair. He made a play to put the pot odds in his favor to hit and he hit. It's an aggressive play, but every good player has to mix it up and make plays like that to keep the other players honest.
Quote from: FFatPatt on October 05, 2006, 12:05:13 PM
He was a 2 to 1 dog (at worst) after the flop if he assumed he was up against a big pair. He made a play to put the pot odds in his favor to hit and he hit. It's an aggressive play, but every good player has to mix it up and make plays like that to keep the other players honest.
He wasn't getting good pot odds. and he was risking most of his chips.
If you see yourself as a 2:1 dog, you need more than 2:1 in the pot for it to make sense.
There was like 180000 in the pot. He's like 35% to make his hand. I think he can only bet like close to 100K for this to make sense. That's my understanding anyway.
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effed up.
Quote from: phattymatty on October 05, 2006, 05:30:34 PM
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effed up.
Totally.
Effed.
Up.
This time, Big Brother has gone too far.
WHO'S WITH ME??!!??!!??!!??!!
Bush signed that into law already?
And as far as I know, Bodog's still allowing deposits....I'm not sure though, I havn't deposited since monday.
But thier transactions show up as "Middleton Financial" on bank statements....so maybe they're just hiding behind a fake name to allow US players to play?
I haven't deposited money into my online account since this whole fiasco started. Thank god the government is once again stepping in and saving me from myself. I would be lost without their guidance.
I don't give it too much time before there are US online poker sites taxing the winnings and what not. ::) >:(
RJS, you could have deposited, you won't lose the money, you just wouldn't be able to add anymore to it.
Yeah I know, but I don't play online enough to even worry about it.
Oh and that whole taxation thing? Don't hold your breath. They could be taxing marijuana and other drugs as well if they wanted, but instead they have made a moral issue out of it to get the masses all riled up. I love our government.
True, but like smoking, they (would) make a hell of a profit off of it. That's why smoking will never be banned completely...
And do you honestly believe the US Government doesn't have its hands on drugs, like pot, here and around the world? :deion
There's still a handful of people alive on the medical marijuana plan, I think.
anyone who was for the smoking ban, and against this is a flaming hypocrit and despite what you type here, you know it.
Quote from: Wingspan on October 06, 2006, 07:54:00 AM
anyone who was for the smoking ban, and against this is a flaming hypocrit and despite what you type here, you know it.
2nd.
i love the smoking ban and could care less about this one
you people do realize there was once a time when the internet didnt exist...cellphones too....i swear
payphones and bookies
ya heard
So when do the Feds go after Powerball?
Quote from: Geowhizzer on October 06, 2006, 08:22:26 AM
So when do the Feds go after Powerball?
Too many state governments make too much money on it.
Withdrew all my money today from both poker sites I use, and my online bookie. The poker didn't bother me, but I really, really like betting on football.
Good news is, now I have $2K in discretionary income to blow. Of course, I'll be responsible and put it down on the debt. So no more fun for Demon...
The fact that you have enough debt that $2k goes "toward" it (meaning significantly more than $2k) and had that much tied up in online gambling/poker sites doesn't speak highly toward your priorities in the first place...
...which is why I would recommend you put half of it towards the debt and blow the rest on booze and hookers.
um, $2K isn't really all that much in debt, richie rich.
Quote from: phattymatty on October 06, 2006, 11:27:24 AM
um, $2K isn't really all that much in debt, richie rich.
Right. And what does that have to do with me mocking Demon's priorities?
nm
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That sucks... I was counting on Firepay's non-bank status and stuff to be the safety net between US consumers and gambling sites. Guess not...
had a poker night at my house last night, 6 people, we were playing 7 card stud with one wild card, i had a royal flush and lost to 5 of a kind. dude only had a pair showing. pot was about $40.
i actually got a royal flush again about half an hour later, and won that one.
I'm having 7 other guys over for a friendly game of low blinds NL hold 'em. I haven't played any poker whatsoever in about 4 months, so I have supreme confidence that I'll lose everything I put on the table.
Anyone watching Poker After Dark on NBC? All week at 2 AM, slightly entertaining. Phil Laak annoys the hell out of everyone.
Playying in a 100 dollar tourny (used to be 50 plus 25 dollar rebuy/add on, but they changed it to 100 dollars, no add on/rebuys, start with 10,000 chips) this wednesday I think with tax returns. I havn't played since they upped the buy in, so I don't know how much bigger the pot will be.
I got my ass kicked as expected yesterday, but not in the manner I expected. I was making the right reads and playing the right way, but that was often folding 2nd-best hand. I was looking down at a lot of Q3 and 86 offsuit and the ilk. I didn't even have any hands that would have hit had I decided to splash around. Basically, just got no cards.
The good news is that after one guy left, some of the others wanted to do some dealer's choice... and I won back all my money in 2 hands of 7-27 (http://www.pagat.com/vying/7-27.html), a horrendous game.
that is the worst game ever. first time i ever played it i lost everything i came with, and it was like the very first game. i have refused to play i ever since. or maybe i'll get my cards and play if i get exactly 7 with the first two. but yeah that game sucks.
Easily the worst poker game ever invented.
I either take a few rounds to go for the pat 7 or see if I can bluff the 6 1/2 or 7 and drive others to chase for the high. BTW, the worst "poker" game of all time is not 7-27, but rather ACEY DEUCEY (a.k.a. goalposts or whatnot). At least with 7-27, you can simply fold after anteing up if you so choose.
I play 7-27 all the time at Dealer's Choice games. But only because it annoys the shtein out of everyone else at the table. Last week, because one guy was being an ass, I invented a stupid-ass game that was horrendously bad. When I was challenged about it being a real game, I told them to prove it. They couldn't, we played, and I annoyed everyone.
Good times.....
Played in the 100 dollar buy in tonight. I was busted when my pocket aces were cracked by pocket 6's. farging a
http://dps.twiihosting.net/wsop/doc/content/doc_591_57.PDF (http://dps.twiihosting.net/wsop/doc/content/doc_591_57.PDF)
i'm playing on bodog right now, i had Q-4 offsuit in BB, so i played. flop comes QQ4. guy in front of me bets. turn card comes 4. dudes bets big again, i call. river comes A, he goes all in. flopped a FH, had 2 sets at the turn. he paired his A on the river. i win.
Also, the WSOP is happening right now. Hellmuth won his record 11th bracelet earlier this week.
weird, i was just about to type that. almost word for word. i thought it was 12 though.
Could be, I didn't read the article very closely.
Anyone know when they start televising it? I'm getting sick of watching Jamie Gold get lucky on ESPN.
I've been on a real bad luck streak lately....lots of shtein like flopping trips and someoen else having the case card with a higher kicker. straights losing to river flushes, etc. farging poker.
Hey, but at least you didn't fake-drunk-type.
They don't televise the WSOP until at least a month until the championship has been played usually. Only the casual fans don't already know the outcome.
Um, the main event doesn't start for like another 3 weeks.
i came in 2nd in a 50-person, pot limit tournament yesterday. 150 bones.
Quote from: Munson on June 18, 2007, 05:11:07 PM
Anyone know when they start televising it? I'm getting sick of watching Jamie Gold get lucky on ESPN.
I've been on a real bad luck streak lately....lots of shtein like flopping trips and someoen else having the case card with a higher kicker. straights losing to river flushes, etc. farging poker.
Settle down, Diamond Jim.
:-D
farg me. Got 5th place and my money back in a 100 dollar tourny, went over to the 2-5 cash game and bought in with the minimum 100, got up to 420 then lost it all.
farging. Poker.
Maawnnn...nad you werte sooooo drank toob!
rick tocchet made it to day 2 of the wsop, which started last week.
that is so awesome that he's in the world's biggest poker tournament after all that gambling shtein.
The wife and I played a home game with this dook (http://www.cardplayer.com/players/results/Jon-Turner/15571) a few years back.
He dropped out of NCSU to play poker professionally.
Also, this is funny:
QuoteStalled
Players at table 77 ran into an annoying problem, intentional stalling. A short stack who had less the $15,000 chips decided that it was more important to make day three then to actually play poker. With only five people left until play stopped, he stalled every time action was on him. This led players to try an explain to him that stalling with his short stack is actually a disadvantage. That tactic failed, so they just called the clock on him immediately when it was his turn. A floor man was basically station at the table. The short stack survived the day.
Stalling is one of the most irritating things about playing in large tourneys. Awful.
NL cash games >>> any tournament
you can't blame the guy. he's probably on an all-expenses paid trip from one of the online poker rooms. they pay for you room the whole time you're there. if he doesn't make it to day 3 they might make him go home. just a guess.
anyway, my buddy has a comp room at the borgata whenever he wants for the most part, so i decided i'm taking the afternoon off tomorrow and going to AC for a night or two to play.
it's more irritating playing at a friendly low cash game and someone takes forever to make a decision on a $2 pot
most people who play poker are farging wanna be phil ivey know it all douchebags who take themselves and the game way to seriously...that why i absolutely refuse to play with anyone i dont personally know...otherwise im def getting in a fistfight
this makes me sad.
QuoteRick Tocchet Pulls a Vinnie Vinh
Yes, it's unfortunate that Vinh's condition has become a catchphrase, but I think it's one that is here to stay.
While Vinnie Vinh himself showed up today (but busted early with a short stack), Rick Tocchet never returned for his Day Two. He survived Day 1c with 17,100 in chips, and his stack made it to the second level without him before succumbing to the blinds.
Why didn't Tocchet ever return to play? There's a theory that he was getting too much pressure for his legal troubles with gambling and conspiracy charges. While it's completely legal for him (or anyone over the age of 21) to play in the World Series of Poker, it may have been bad for him in other ways.
Regardless of the reason, Tocchet never returned on Day 2b, and his chips are now gone.
Quote from: ice grillin you on July 11, 2007, 09:28:27 PM
most people who play poker are farging wanna be phil ivey know it all douchebags who take themselves and the game way to seriously...that why i absolutely refuse to play with anyone i dont personally know...otherwise im def getting in a fistfight
I would chip in about $20 to the bankroll to see you and Munson go heads up.
I'd tear him up. Actually, no, I seem to do better at full tables then I do anything less then 5 handed. I get too loose and don't pick my spots well.
Fascinating.
I tear shtein up short-handed. That's easy money.
played in the midnight tournament at the taj mahal on thursday night. 176 players, 6K prize pool. made it to about the last 7-8 tables. this girl, who had AA about 4 times in the last 30 hands had a huge chip stack. was knockin out dudes left and right. anyway, she was high stack at the table, i was 2nd. blinds were 400-800. had pocket Ks. she bet 3000. i just called. flop comes K-10-6. i flopped the best hand possible. she bets another 3K. i raise to 15 K. she calls. turn comes A. i go all-in. she calls and shows me her J-Q for the straight. lucky whore, called a huge raise with a straight draw.
i killed the borgata in blackjack though.
QuoteJerry Yang, a 39-year-old psychologist and social worker from Temecula, Calif., won the $10,000 buy-in main event of the World Series of Poker and its $8.25 million top prize.
nice spoiler alert dick
Quote from: SunMo on July 18, 2007, 10:24:06 AM
QuoteJerry Yang, a 39-year-old psychologist and social worker from Temecula, Calif., won the $10,000 buy-in main event of the World Series of Poker and its $8.25 million top prize.
He was playing crazy. Doing all kinds of non-standard plays, and it worked out for him. Very unconventional player that at times seemed intent on giving away his money. I was watching the illegal internet feed yesterday of the PPV action.
I just won $20 in free bar money in a free tournament against terrible players. Bow down, bitches.
i came in 17th out of 5,000 in a bodog tournament last night. didn't go to bed until about 4.
Don't try to upstage me, dude. My accomplishment is far more impressive.
it was a freeroll, so i won $7.50. for about 6 hours of poker. thats almost $1.50 an hour.
the winner got over $250.
I'm going to have to quit my poker group. Monthly games, not big money. Mostly just an excuse to get out of the house, drink beer, and shoot the shtein.
Last night, one tool's wife calls to gossip about a teacher that another guy is going out on a blind date night. 20 freaking minutes of this dude's wife, on speaker phone, talking about god damned elementary school yearbook photos. I guess it doesn't help that I hate this dude's wife to begin with. I should have left, but I had more beer to drink.
I think I'm retiring from neighborhood poker games.
The WSOP isn't televised on ESPN for at least a month after the tournament's over. The information is readily available on multiple card player websites, including cardplayer.com. It's not much of a spoiler, really, and it's certainly no worse than you spoiling the ending to "The Departed".
Use the quote function retard. No one knows what you're talking about.
Quote from: FastFreddie on July 20, 2007, 10:40:25 AM
The WSOP isn't televised on ESPN for at least a month after the tournament's over. The information is readily available on multiple card player websites, including cardplayer.com. It's not much of a spoiler, really, and it's certainly no worse than you spoiling the ending to "The Departed".
Dude they post it in ESPN.com. If you have even a passing interest in poker you would have to go into a hermetically sealed bubble to avoid it.
I can't wait to see Demon's home game on ESPN next month.
technically, they've already been playing the WSOP for about 2 or 3 weeks on ESPN. they just won't show the main event for another month or so, maybe even later.
hey douche staley i was joking...like i give a flying farg about the poker championships
douche staley...awesome
Won a 70 person tournament on the Royal Caribbean cruise I was on last week. Got a free cruise for 2 and $1,000 entrance to a 25 person 25k tourney Dec. 2nd.
awesome. congrats.
Yeah dude, that's farging outstanding.
Thanks guys. Was pretty sweet. I play a lot online, but have never won a 'real' tournament in person. Hopefully I'll have better news after Dec 2nd. :yay
good luck man. only 25 people for 25K? thats some great odds. and since you didn't pay anything to get in you can play more aggressively than you would if you paid a large buy-in. did everyone else pay to get in? if so, use that to your advantage, you have nothing to lose, they do.
anyway, i kinda got out of poker for a while, because most of my poker buddies are now married and/or out of town, but have been back into it lately. playing in AC more often and trying to get some local games going.
for anyone who plays bodog, every night at 9:40 they have a $1000 freeroll. it's kind of a pain because the max players is 5000, and it takes a while, but first gets $250 and after all the idiots go all-in right away the play is pretty good towards the end.
I havn't played on Bodog since they stopped letting me put money in through my account. How would I get the winnings out if I won somethin in a freeroll there?
bodog was one of the ones that never really changed. i think it changed for a week but now you can fund your account just like the old days. they just use some kind of different bank, probably offshore i guess.
Quote from: phattymatty on July 24, 2007, 08:52:22 PM
bodog was one of the ones that never really changed. i think it changed for a week but now you can fund your account just like the old days. they just use some kind of different bank, probably offshore i guess.
Really? nice.
This time I'm going to be smart and actually take the goddamn money out when I'm up big. I put in 10, got it up to like 235, and then back down to like 64 before I finally took it out.
Alright I'm tryin to figure this shtein out...what's this instant check account details check number thing?
This thread sure was deep.
Wondering why you aren't winning more in on-line poker? Here's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gk-4IxBDJA) the tutorial you need.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26563848/
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Allegations that cheaters manipulated the software powering a leading Internet poker site so they could see their opponents' hole cards have triggered a $75 million claim against a Canadian company, msnbc.com has learned.
The alleged subterfuge on UltimateBet.com — one of the 10 top poker sites — is the biggest known case of fraud targeting an Internet gambling site and its customers, according to the company that owns the site. It is similar to a case of cheating that occurred last year on UltimateBet's sister site, AbsolutePoker.com, but this time the thieves ran the scheme for far longer — at least from January 2005 to January 2008, it said.
Word of the $75 million U.S. claim ($80 million Canadian) — the first indication of the scope of the alleged cheating — emerged this week when msnbc.com contacted a court-appointed liquidator overseeing the voluntary dismemberment of Excapsa Software Inc. of Toronto, which formerly owned and licensed the poker software to UltimateBet and other gambling sites. The claim was filed by Blast-Off Ltd. of Malta, a private company that currently has an ownership interest in Ultimate Bet.
Wow. If I could figure something like that out, I could stop looking for a job.
Ha. That's where I used to play.
you're probably like the only one.
not sure if anyone has heard about this, but last week a judge in SC ruled that poker is a game of skill and is not gambling. i guess it came after a big home poker was raided or something.
regardless, it's a huge step in making poker houses legal.
I haven't played cards in like 5 months. This makes me cry tears of disappointed rage.
isnt playing it for money what makes it illegal not whether it takes skill or not?
I hosted a neighborhood game on Saturday night. Based on my experience with these sorts of "friendly" games, skill is very important to success. A lot of people will complain about playing against idiots, but the fact of the matter is that skilled people win against non-skilled people more often than not.
and i'm pretty sure there are different laws in different states, but at least in SC, they only considered games that are more reliant on chance than on skill to be illegal.
i thought running a book or a casino out of your house was a federal no no
so maryland for example if it wanted could make poker houses legal?
Quote from: ice grillin you on February 25, 2009, 12:16:52 PM
isnt playing it for money what makes it illegal not whether it takes skill or not?
No, the origin behind the law is that the bible denounces 'games of chance' as immoral. Money plays a part only in that it allowed law-makers to point to people who lost everything as additional evidence that it should be outlawed.
Quote from: FastFreddie on February 25, 2009, 12:26:46 PM
I hosted a neighborhood game on Saturday night. Based on my experience with these sorts of "friendly" games, skill is very important to success. A lot of people will complain about playing against idiots, but the fact of the matter is that skilled people win against non-skilled people more often than not.
A skilled player will almost always win against A unskilled player. A skilled player against a room full of idiots can win, lose or anything in between.
over time.
Quote from: rjs246 on February 25, 2009, 12:31:42 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on February 25, 2009, 12:16:52 PM
isnt playing it for money what makes it illegal not whether it takes skill or not?
No, the origin behind the law is that the bible denounces 'games of chance' as immoral.
so having a poker game at your house is technically illegal whether money is involved or not?
Quote from: ice grillin you on February 25, 2009, 12:34:06 PM
Quote from: rjs246 on February 25, 2009, 12:31:42 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on February 25, 2009, 12:16:52 PM
isnt playing it for money what makes it illegal not whether it takes skill or not?
No, the origin behind the law is that the bible denounces 'games of chance' as immoral.
so having a poker game at your house is technically illegal whether money is involved or not?
That's actually a very good question. I have no idea. I would imagine that the law would only ever pass if money were involved, but I don't actually know.
i think it's a state by state thing. like in SC for example, they haven't rewritten the laws since the early 1800s, so technically playing monopoly or any game involving dice is illegal. i think most states have updated .
normally, it's only illegal if it includes chance and cash money.
if its state by state i cant believe more states dont have casinos...if nothing else it would be a quick way to lower their deficits
actually its gotta be federal otherwise the only casinos wouldnt be on indian land (and some boats)
I don't know how it works for all states, but in IL, the casinos gotta be on water.
Last weekend we had some newcomers playing and they kept calling games with wild cards. I hate poker with anything wild.
Quote from: rjs246 on February 25, 2009, 12:31:42 PM
A skilled player will almost always win against A unskilled player. A skilled player against a room full of idiots can win, lose or anything in between.
True, but the skilled player is still more likely to win than any single one of the idiots.
I'd kill for a local poker house.
The tourny I used to go to up off Macdade blvd got busted over the summer.
Finally went to AC in January too....I went up 165 dollars in the first 45 minutes I sat down. Nice.
Second day didn't go so well.
It looks like the shady ass poker room that I used to go to might be re-opening. I'm getting the twitch...
I flopped trips and bet on the flop and the turn and some asian dude chased a 5 high farging flush down to the river. And of course the 4 of diamonds hit. Awesome.
How expensive did you make it for him to chase, though?
I was on the button and three people limped in before me...so i limped, and the two blinds, so it was a 12 dollar pot....everyone checked around to me on the flop so I bet 15....then on the turn I bet 25...dude still called.
As soon as the diamond hit I knew I got screwed.
$25 bet was too small. But sometimes you're just going to get farged anyway.
So apparently, despite 3 years away from the game, I haven't forgotten how to play online limit hold'em. In an hour and a half I'm up 70 at a freaking 1/2 table. Suckers.
UltimateBet started sending you emails again, too?
i'm playing in the wsop next weekend in vegas.
i promise to share none of my winnings with any of you.
matty-whats the minimum buy-in at that stage?
I've obviously seen the main event at a 10g buy-in and some of the others plays at 5g but I'm curious to know how many actual games go down there
i play poker online with fake money. i'm really good at it.
Quote from: reese125 on June 16, 2009, 10:57:51 AM
matty-whats the minimum buy-in at that stage?
I've obviously seen the main event at a 10g buy-in and some of the others plays at 5g but I'm curious to know how many actual games go down there
there are 57 events in all in the wsop and the majority of them are 1500-5000 buyins. other than the casino employee game, 1500 is the minimum.
i dont know shtein about non sports gambling so this is probably a retarded question but is it 1500 to just get in then you have to buy chips...or 1500 bucks gets you in the game with X amount of starting chips and you go till youre out?
Quote from: phattymatty on June 16, 2009, 01:40:07 PM
Quote from: reese125 on June 16, 2009, 10:57:51 AM
matty-whats the minimum buy-in at that stage?
I've obviously seen the main event at a 10g buy-in and some of the others plays at 5g but I'm curious to know how many actual games go down there
there are 57 events in all in the wsop and the majority of them are 1500-5000 buyins. other than the casino employee game, 1500 is the minimum.
good luck-- bang it out
Quote from: ice grillin you on June 16, 2009, 01:46:43 PM
i dont know shtein about non sports gambling so this is probably a retarded question but is it 1500 to just get in then you have to buy chips...or 1500 bucks gets you in the game with X amount of starting chips and you go till youre out?
second. everyone starts with same amount of chips, thats tournament style.
a more relaxed game may see you buy whatever the farg you want in chips, but thats not the wsop.
Quote from: MDS on June 16, 2009, 01:50:36 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on June 16, 2009, 01:46:43 PM
i dont know shtein about non sports gambling so this is probably a retarded question but is it 1500 to just get in then you have to buy chips...or 1500 bucks gets you in the game with X amount of starting chips and you go till youre out?
second. everyone starts with same amount of chips, thats tournament style.
a more relaxed game may see you buy whatever the farg you want in chips, but thats not the wsop.
didnt answer the question
In his own retarded way he tried to answer the question, but since he can't communicate effectively you missed it. 'Second' means that your second described option is correct.
lol thank you rusty
No problem, journalist.
my copy is always clean
Quote from: ice grillin you on June 16, 2009, 03:04:45 PM
Quote from: MDS on June 16, 2009, 01:50:36 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on June 16, 2009, 01:46:43 PM
i dont know shtein about non sports gambling so this is probably a retarded question but is it 1500 to just get in then you have to buy chips...or 1500 bucks gets you in the game with X amount of starting chips and you go till youre out?
second. everyone starts with same amount of chips, thats tournament style.
a more relaxed game may see you buy whatever the farg you want in chips, but thats not the wsop.
didnt answer the question
yeah he did, probably just not clearly enough that if you don't know anything/much about poker, then it didn't make sense.
wsop style tourneys have each player start off with the same amount of chips so that every one is starting off on a level playing field. the chips don't necessarily have a "cash" value to them. not sure about wsop, but i know if you go to a bar tourney, the buy in might be $50 but you get say $200 in chips.
more "relaxed" tourneys or games will sometimes do dollar for dollar exchange on chips. so if i drop $100, i get $100 in chips but if you throw down $200, then you'll get that same amount in chips which obviously would give you an advantage over me. this is mostly applicable to regular poker tables in a casino.
May be making another trip to AC Tuesday night.....Wherever we go I wanna play 1/2 cash, but I know my friends going are tourny guys....what's the best place down there for affordable tournys? I know Harrahs has a daily one at 8:15 for 80 bucks....I have yet to check out the Trop's website.....any other places have daily tournaments for 100 or less?
Quote from: Sgt PSN on June 16, 2009, 07:29:24 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on June 16, 2009, 03:04:45 PM
Quote from: MDS on June 16, 2009, 01:50:36 PM
Quote from: ice grillin you on June 16, 2009, 01:46:43 PM
i dont know shtein about non sports gambling so this is probably a retarded question but is it 1500 to just get in then you have to buy chips...or 1500 bucks gets you in the game with X amount of starting chips and you go till youre out?
second. everyone starts with same amount of chips, thats tournament style.
a more relaxed game may see you buy whatever the farg you want in chips, but thats not the wsop.
didnt answer the question
yeah he did, probably just not clearly enough that if you don't know anything/much about poker, then it didn't make sense.
wsop style tourneys have each player start off with the same amount of chips so that every one is starting off on a level playing field. the chips don't necessarily have a "cash" value to them. not sure about wsop, but i know if you go to a bar tourney, the buy in might be $50 but you get say $200 in chips.
more "relaxed" tourneys or games will sometimes do dollar for dollar exchange on chips. so if i drop $100, i get $100 in chips but if you throw down $200, then you'll get that same amount in chips which obviously would give you an advantage over me. this is mostly applicable to regular poker tables in a casino.
i never asked anything about starting with the same amount of chips...that wasnt the question at all...the question was is the buy in all you pay at the wsop....or do you pay a buy in and then pay for chips...i thought maybe because the thing was so big you had to pay for the right to get in then pay more for your chips
thus the question was never answered
The question is retarded. Who on earth would buy their way into a casino just so they'd have to pay again for their chips? What are you gonna do, pay $10,000 to watch other people play?
Quote from: Munson on June 24, 2009, 02:39:30 AM
May be making another trip to AC Tuesday night.....Wherever we go I wanna play 1/2 cash, but I know my friends going are tourny guys....what's the best place down there for affordable tournys? I know Harrahs has a daily one at 8:15 for 80 bucks....I have yet to check out the Trop's website.....any other places have daily tournaments for 100 or less?
taj mahal has some good tournaments. there's one at midnight every night for around $50 i think and gets between a hundred and two hundred people.
i know they have several others throughout the day too. it's my favorite poker room in AC other than Borgata.
Quote from: rjs246 on June 24, 2009, 08:49:19 AM
The question is retarded. Who on earth would buy their way into a casino just so they'd have to pay again for their chips? What are you gonna do, pay $10,000 to watch other people play?
i said it was most likely retarded before i asked it (RIF)....i dont know shtein about poker (as i also said - RIF)....but it still doesnt change the fact that it wasnt intially answered
ill answer your questions when you stop being such a honkey
honkies play poker son
Wait, did he just make an acronym out of 'reading is fundamental'? And did he attempt to mock me for not recognizing that he prefaced his stupid question by admitting that it was stupid by typing 'RIF'? Twice?
Wow. I've totally been shamed. How embarrassing for me.
Quote from: ice grillin you on June 24, 2009, 08:16:44 AM
i never asked anything about starting with the same amount of chips...that wasnt the question at all...
you sure about that?
Quote from: ice grillin you on June 16, 2009, 01:46:43 PM
i dont know shtein about non sports gambling so this is probably a retarded question but is it 1500 to just get in then you have to buy chips...or 1500 bucks gets you in the game with X amount of starting chips and you go till youre out?
Quote from: ice grillin you on June 24, 2009, 08:16:44 AMthe question was is the buy in all you pay at the wsop....or do you pay a buy in and then pay for chips...i thought maybe because the thing was so big you had to pay for the right to get in then pay more for your chips
thus the question was never answered
so you're asking if you pay $X just to get a seat at a table and then have to pay more for chips. i'm pretty sure that question was already answered. twice. but here it is for a third time (RIF).
the buy in price gets you in the tourney along with your chips and you play until you're out.
or 1500 bucks gets you in the game with X amount of starting chips and you go till youre out?
theres nothing in that question that says anything about people starting with different amonts of chips
even a poker moron like me knows everyone starts with the same amount of chips...when i said X amount i meant i didnt know how many chips people start with in general because the amount of chips you begin with doesnt always equal the buy in price does it?
and yes the question was subsequentily answered (at least twice)
it just wasnt initially answered by the lil guy
i aint no lil guy when i be swinging a 10 inch dong in yo mommas face son
youll do no such thing pencil penis
Quote from: phattymatty on June 24, 2009, 09:48:46 AM
Quote from: Munson on June 24, 2009, 02:39:30 AM
May be making another trip to AC Tuesday night.....Wherever we go I wanna play 1/2 cash, but I know my friends going are tourny guys....what's the best place down there for affordable tournys? I know Harrahs has a daily one at 8:15 for 80 bucks....I have yet to check out the Trop's website.....any other places have daily tournaments for 100 or less?
taj mahal has some good tournaments. there's one at midnight every night for around $50 i think and gets between a hundred and two hundred people.
i know they have several others throughout the day too. it's my favorite poker room in AC other than Borgata.
Thanks Phatty, I'll check out their sites and see the schedule. Ballys also had a 50 dollar daily tourny, but I havn't met anyone that's played at their poker room yet....could be zesty for all I know.
Quote from: ice grillin you on June 24, 2009, 12:50:08 PM
youll do no such thing pencil penis
already done i finished kobe style
Ended up just playing at the Trop and Harrah's last Tuesday. I definitely prefer Harrah's poker room....they've got a good set up.
I only finished up 50 bucks at the cash tables, but bought into the midnight tourny and got rivered, so overall down 30 for the trip. One of my boys that finished up 700 wants to go back again tomorrow so we're headin back down. Buildin up some comp points at Harrahs.
Just won a 1369 person tournament on Full Tilt. Buy in was only $10 but I'm sure as hell not complaining. 2.7k. Woooo.
Quote from: Eagles_Legendz on July 07, 2009, 03:21:16 AM
Just won a 1369 person tournament on Full Tilt. Buy in was only $10 but I'm sure as hell not complaining. 2.7k. Woooo.
Wow, thats very, very niiiiiccccce.
Quote from: Eagles_Legendz on July 07, 2009, 03:21:16 AM
Just won a 1369 person tournament on Full Tilt. Buy in was only $10 but I'm sure as hell not complaining. 2.7k. Woooo.
congrats. now you can finally take me to sizzler.
Why don't we really live on the wild side and make it Outback?
Sizzler >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Outback.
Quote from: Eagles_Legendz on July 07, 2009, 02:25:22 PM
Why don't we really live on the wild side and make it Outback?
whatever you want, daddy warbucks.
Be glad it's daddy warbucks and not scrooge mcduck sir or else we'd be heading to denny's.
that's fine with me too.
if i ain't paying, i ain't complaining.
Finished up $413 tonight. Not bad.
Finished up around $600 this time. Acquiring some extra spending money for Vegas.
i seriously hope you die
That's cool.
Now go tell your sister I'll be over later to tear up her ass some more.
your quasimoto looking ass isnt tearing anything up
and stop posting your poker stories no believes or cares about them
I don't care what idiots like jewboy and you "believe". I'll keep enjoying myself in AC. At least until the table games get put in at Delaware Park.
i played a $4 satellite tournament on full tilt yesterday, just for shteins and giggles, and ended up winning an entry into a $400K tournament this weekend. word. and it was omaha hi, which i'm pretty sure i've never played in my life.
what the hell is omaha hi.
It's like Colombian Necktie, only friendlier.
will my scrotum like it?
Quote from: MDS on November 11, 2009, 11:37:45 AM
what the hell is omaha hi.
its just like hold em except you get 4 cards and not 2.
as soon as I saw Phil Ivey lose a the final table last night I turned it off--wanted him to pull it out big time
I play poker and am reasonably good at it (or was before I stopped playing regularly). I've won a lot more money that I've lost over the years and have spent a lot of time around other card players and there is one thing I've learned... people who consider themselves 'poker players' are the farging scum of the earth. They are the most socially deficient group of people I've ever encountered. They all think that they know how to play the game and that everyone else is a donkey. They all think that their years of being social outcasts are justified by a tournament that they won once in someone's kitchen. They talk shtein and pout and sulk and sit in casinos for days on end, choking in stale cigarette stink and frustration. Sucking down redbull and trying to convince everyone that they know everything. 'Poker players' are awful to be around.
Poker games among friends are great. Poker games among strangers can be great simply because you have an opportunity to take these douchebags' money. And any sort of gambling/game of chance involving money is very high on my list of ways to pass the time. But it will be a cold day in hell before I actively 'root' for a professional poker player to do anything other than throw himself off of a bridge.
funny thing about it is I dont think I could stand 5 minutes around Ivey before wanting to roll. He might be one of the most miserable guys at the table and acts like he is above the rest (which he is)....and has the personality of a paper clip
I just wanted a guy that Ive been watching on tv for so many years to win the thing. Hell, I would of liked Hellmuth, Mike the mouth or Daniel Negreanu to win just as much and I dont even like those guys one bit..well maybe I like Hellmuth a tad
Rusty is right. farg those losers
Quote from: rjs246 on November 11, 2009, 02:00:01 PM
Poker games among friends are great. Poker games among strangers can be great simply because you have an opportunity to take these douchebags' money. And any sort of gambling/game of chance involving money is very high on my list of ways to pass the time. But it will be a cold day in hell before I actively 'root' for a professional poker player to do anything other than throw himself off of a bridge.
I got an email from a poker player once, way back when I had that poker blog job for two weeks. I praised him in an article for not being a douchebag and daring to enjoy himself while playing cards. He thanked me for the kind words, and agreed that most of the people who get on television playing poker should die.
Yeah from what I've heard Ivey is a real icehole in person. He was at the Venitian when I was in Vegas playin craps and a couple of the guys at the table I was at were talkin about how he hates being approached by people and is generally just a fleshpophead.
wait not wanting to be approached by and small talked to by strangers makes you an icehole?
consider me ahole #1 then
Great, can we have permission to breathe air while you're at it?
just as long as its not mine
I don't know how to play poker. But I agree with Rusty's assessment. They have a poker radio show on down here and these guys are good to listen to for laughs. They get all fired up over dumb shtein and their ego's are huge. I've watched some of the WSOP , a few years ago, and these people look ripe for a good face punching. I love the douchebags who wear the ray bans and have the FULL TILT ads plastered all over their bodies.
If I was a rep at Full TIlt I'd make pasties and pay women to wear them on their boobies.
Speaking of Vegas...I've never been. We are going to go in January. Not on a bus, mind you...but we're gonna go for a 4-day weekend. I'm already pumped to go.
I'm going to run game at the craps tables.
Funjet and Continental.com have some pretty good air/hotel deals going on.
I'm deciding between staying at NY, NY...MGM or Planet Hollywood.
Quote from: ice grillin you on November 11, 2009, 03:37:28 PM
just as long as its not mine
Label yours with a sharpie so we know.
A poker radio show. Wow.
Quote from: rjs246 on November 11, 2009, 03:40:47 PM
A poker radio show. Wow.
Yeah. Two weirdo's with a massive following.
And they talk like they're boys with every WSOP player out there.
The only thing less entertaining that I can think of would be if they discussed Starcraft tournaments instead of poker.
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on November 11, 2009, 03:38:21 PM
I don't know how to play poker. But I agree with Rusty's assessment. They have a poker radio show on down here and these guys are good to listen to for laughs. They get all fired up over dumb shtein and their ego's are huge. I've watched some of the WSOP , a few years ago, and these people look ripe for a good face punching. I love the douchebags who wear the ray bans and have the FULL TILT ads plastered all over their bodies.
If I was a rep at Full TIlt I'd make pasties and pay women to wear them on their boobies.
Speaking of Vegas...I've never been. We are going to go in January. Not on a bus, mind you...but we're gonna go for a 4-day weekend. I'm already pumped to go.
I'm going to run game at the craps tables.
Funjet and Continental.com have some pretty good air/hotel deals going on.
I'm deciding between staying at NY, NY...MGM or Planet Hollywood.
All those places were further down the strip from where I was.....I definitely liked Treasure Island, but it was expensive.
BEst time of my life minus game 5 partII last year.
IGY-I agree the guy should have his privacy and whatever, but from what I've heard he just berates people that try and talk to him. Be a little humble, if you don't want people to bother you, it's not that hard to not be a fleshpop about it.
Quote from: reese125 on November 11, 2009, 02:09:16 PM
funny thing about it is I dont think I could stand 5 minutes around Ivey before wanting to roll. He might be one of the most miserable guys at the table and acts like he is above the rest (which he is)....and has the personality of a paper clip
I just wanted a guy that Ive been watching on tv for so many years to win the thing. Hell, I would of liked Hellmuth, Mike the mouth or Daniel Negreanu to win just as much and I dont even like those guys one bit..well maybe I like Hellmuth a tad
knowing the names of "professional" poker players ftl. you're blacklisted from the tailgate now.
Daniel Negreanu actually seems like a decent guy. Hellmuth is a bitch but his whining is always good for a laugh.
i could name at least 50. i don't watch it all that often but i keep up with the big tournaments and you see similar names over and over again.
its not that hard to know the names when they are shown almost every night on 1 of the 5 channels that poker is on....not to mention they run the WSOP re-runs more than Seinfeld
watching it is where you go wrong....not knowing the names
Quote from: reese125 on November 11, 2009, 04:29:01 PM
its not that hard to know the names when they are shown almost every night on 1 of the 5 channels that poker is on....not to mention they run the WSOP re-runs more than Seinfeld
change the channel dookie. it's one thing to glance at it for a minute, which i do from time to time.....especially if i come across it at the right time and see that a couple of players are going all in. but that's about the most i've ever seen at a time.
who you kidding...you got the WSOP dvr'd and you know it. I want a true admission right now
i'm transferring it to my ipod so we can watch it together in sd. i'll wear one earphone, you'll wear the other. it'll be really cute.
bwhaha
ive never watched it beyond flipping thru on channels and i even know a bunch of the names....mostly because im a pop culture whore
im not a fan of playing it either but i understand how it could be fun...what i wont ever understand is how watching grown men play cards ever became popular
poker, golf and driving 200 mph are all things that are fun to actually do but are horrible to watch.
Quote from: Sgt PSN on November 11, 2009, 05:54:14 PM
poker, golf, basketball, and driving 200 mph are all things that are fun to actually do but are horrible to watch.
Fixed.
wrong. as usual.
Golf, driving 200 mph, and fat chicks.
fat chicks are a given. just put a little bbq sauce on your fingertips and they'll do anything you want.
BAsketball before the last 4-5 minutes of the 4th quarter in a close game is incredibly boring to watch.
Squeak. Squeak squeak. Squeak squeak. Whoosh. Squeak.
i like watching golf in general, but watching the last day of the masters is one of the top sports days of my year. especially stoned.
If you're going to throw weed in the mix, that's just going to throw off the whole list.
Quote from: General_Failure on November 11, 2009, 09:30:07 PM
If you're going to throw weed in the mix, that's just going to throw off the whole list.
hey man, you ever watch golf? ever watch golf.............on weeeeed?
(http://chud.com/nextraimages/halfbaked5.jpg)
They opened a poker room up on Philly Pike, SB. It's pretty legit, my only worry is it seems overly easy to rob. The cage is right by the door and from what I saw there wasn't a cop/security around. They've got a 1,000 dollar free roll with rebuys on monday nights, other tourny's on wednesday and saturday, and cash games every other night.
i've seen 2 of those places open up, everyone says their legit, and in 5 months they're gone. Not sure what the f is up with them, used to just be the Continental Club in little italy that had the action.
Well there was that one in Newark that moved to Limestone road that's still around...but according to a lot of the players there, this one is a lot more "professional" than the Limestone Road one. The guys that run it also have a couple rooms in Ohio and Michigan so they know what they're doin.
I was a member of one of those underground rooms in DC for a while...nice penthouse condo in DC, free top shelf liquor, free cigars, hot ass waitresses serving you, etc. Was actually fun for a while, I'd normally only go over there with like 500 bucks tops but after about three or four months he had a big money night. Minimum buy in was 25K or something like that. 15-20 people showed up. Dude went to "lock the money in the safe" and no one has seen him since. This was about 2 years ago.
thats F'd up, but expected.
yeah i guess it's worth giving out free expensive cigars and liquor if you know you're eventually gonna take off with close to half a million.
Haha that's not one of those places. This is one of them charity places where the rake goes to a different local charity/organization that sponsors it every night. Legal and shtein.
I played at an underground tourny up off MacDade Blvd for a while and it got busted one night.
Quote from: Munson on December 15, 2009, 02:03:03 AM
I played at an underground tourny up off MacDade Blvd
incase every other post you've ever made wasn't enough proof of how trashy you are, this one certainly seals the deal.
Why, because I played at an underground poker tourny that was a half hour away from where I live?
I'll play anywhere there's a decent game goin.
i hear theres a game on top floor of the north tower of the world trade center on sept 11, 2001. why dont you go?
The last time I went to a game in New York it was hosted by some german dude, he said he'd be having some jewish friends for dinner. They never showed up but that steak we had was mighty good.
I'm getting staked tonight in either the Harrah's or Taj's midnight tourny. Harrah's has a 10 dollar bounty, but it's generally hit or miss on getting a good amount of players. Has anyone here done the Taj midnight? Does it get good turn out on sundays?
ive done the late night taj tournament two or three times. not sure what nights but there were usually 75-100 people in them.
I'm playing in one of the WSOP tournaments in Vegas in a few weeks. If anyone wants to stake a piece of my buy-in, I will accept.
what part do I get for twenty bucks?
You get the winnings from anybody that gets disqualified for trying to steal his sunglasses, which will be purchased with your twenty bucks.
That's better pay than Ishmael signed up for, count me IN.
Quote from: phattymatty on June 10, 2010, 11:30:22 AM
I'm playing in one of the WSOP tournaments in Vegas in a few weeks. If anyone wants to stake a piece of my buy-in, I will accept.
What kind of ROI are you predicting?
Quote from: phattymatty on May 23, 2010, 09:16:26 PM
ive done the late night taj tournament two or three times. not sure what nights but there were usually 75-100 people in them.
Yeah, they ended up having 85, and I got busted around 41st. Rivered a full house after everyone was checking around, it turns out one of them flopped a boat. Mother farger.
Quote from: FastFreddie on June 10, 2010, 07:21:45 PM
What kind of ROI are you predicting?
the odds say 0 but i have a good feeling.
Played in a little home game last night. Bought in for $40, left with $160. I am not using my winnings to stake Matty in the WSOP.
easy come easy go
hang onto found money at your own peril
i played in a tournament last night with 2,200+ people....came in 23rd.
Nice. $$$?
yeah but not much. it was final table top heavy. everyone at the final table won at least a grand, winner got almost $5000, but i got just a little over $100. kind of doesn't even seem worth it but i busted with a suckout so i felt a little better. filled with murderous rage but happy with how i played.
Where was that tourny at Phatty?
phatty must be a hell of a poker player, every time I've been in a tourney, I never make it past halfway...but that could be 'cause I'm usually shtein faced 'bout then.
it was just on full tilt, not at a casino last night.
I need to learn poker.
I have no clue how to play.
me either. last time I played, I kept folding my zesty hand when I was in the blind and didn't have to...
so i did not win my world series event but it was a farging awesome experience. sat at the same table with a few pros and saw a whole bunch of celebs. matt damon, don cheadle, shannon elizabeth and a shteinload more. i lasted almost until dinner break and saw a bunch of people lose before me, phil ivey, moneymaker were the only ones i actually witnessed get busted. and came in about 700ish out of the 1900 that signed up for my day, over 3800 for the whole tournament. which is not that good but it was still worth it. definitely playing again next year, hopefully with better results.
I would like to do gross things to Shannon Elizabeth.
yeah smokin hot, she actually came in second in the big celebrity charity tournament. phil gordon won.
came in 2nd out of 392 players in a $10 tournament this weekend. won $800. boom.
Quote from: phattymatty on July 06, 2010, 10:13:51 AM
so i did not win my world series event but it was a farging awesome experience. sat at the same table with a few pros and saw a whole bunch of celebs. matt damon, don cheadle, shannon elizabeth and a shteinload more. i lasted almost until dinner break and saw a bunch of people lose before me, phil ivey, moneymaker were the only ones i actually witnessed get busted. and came in about 700ish out of the 1900 that signed up for my day, over 3800 for the whole tournament. which is not that good but it was still worth it. definitely playing again next year, hopefully with better results.
Do you have to qualify to get into that tourney or just simply sign up? What's the buy in?
*I may or may not have used correct terminology.
Either...seems like it was about 50/50 in the one i played in. lots of people won some kind of online entry but i just paid my way in. there's 50+ tournaments in the World Series ranging from 1,000 to 10,000 buy-ins.
Delaware Park has a real nice tourny schedule now...
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gameon/post/2011/04/fbi-cracks-down-on-3-biggest-online-poker-houses-poker-stars-full-tilt-poker-absolute-poker/1
damn, PokerStars, FullTilt, and Absolute Poker shut down by the feds, hope people got their money out
QuoteFBI Assistant Director in Charge Janice Fedarcyk added: "These defendants, knowing full well that their business with U.S. customers and U.S. banks was illegal, tried to stack the deck. They lied to banks about the true nature of their business. Then, some of the defendants found banks willing to flout the law for a fee. The defendants bet the house that they could continue their scheme, and they lost."
I see what she did there.
US Government hard at work with bullshtein investigations again.
Since the gambling industry was formed by criminals and run by criminals, I have no doubt that these guys here aren't doing some shady shtein. Although I'm not much a gambler so I really don't give a shtein one way or the other since they haven't made a dime off of me.
Wonder what happens to the money in peoples' accounts? Guess it doesn't really matter though...they were probably going to end up losing it all anyway.
i'm playing in a tournament with this guy tomorrow.
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Mike "the mouth" Matusow is playing a tourney at Parx at noon today. In case any of you locals have nothing better to do.
I stayed up until 3 playing cards and now I'm awake to play in a lacrosse tournament. Because I'm still young and this is totally a good idea.
Drink heavily during and after your tournament.
One of the few things that recommend rjs as an entertaining internet personality in this godforsaken shteinhole corner of cyberspace we call home is his natural inclination to punish himself.
farg jocks.
Lmao @ jocks. Rjs a jock? I guess I'm a jock because I'm in a basketball league?
By the way, you said 'we' white man. That's not tolerated in these here parts.
I won $1,100 last night in a $100 tournament of 16 heads...it was a tournament organized by a buddy of mine.
Feels pretty freakin sweet. 8)
Was Arod there?
I don't get the reference, and stop hitting on me you perv!
I played in a Texas Hold-em Tournament at the local Casino and it was a $30 buy-in with a $5 fee, and $3 add-on, total of $38. 139 players, I made the final table, final 10 and we chopped and we each received $417. My first time making a final table.
This year's Texas Hold'em winnings: $1,500. :deion
Hopefully within a couple of years I can get good enough to make it to a WPT tournament in Vegas and make some money. That's one of my goals.
Is there 5 of a kind in poker?
I don't play much but found myself at a neighbors house last night playing. On the occasion I do play, it's hold em. Last night though the game was changing with the dealer. So we were mostly playing 5 card draw, hold em and some other game I never heard of and can't remember what it was called. Anyway, I've got very little 5 card draw experience but I know the rules. So during the deal, the dealer says that 3s and 9s are wild. I end up getting dealt a pair of 7s, a pair of 3s (one of the wild cards) and a 5 or something. I turn in the 5 and get another 3 in return. After the betting is done, we show our hands and I say I've got 4 of a kind. A couple people look at me like I have a fleshpop growing out of my forehead and one of them says "are you sure that's your best hand?" and I say yeah thinking that the only other hand I had was a full house (3s and 7s) but 4 of a kind beats that. After a minute or so of them telling me to keep looking at my hand and pick a better hand, someone else jumps in and says "you've got 5 of a kind." not that it mattered since my 4 of a kind still beat every other hand but I was still trying to figure out the 5 of a kind thing.
Is that a real thing? I've never heard of it. Is it some stupid unwritten rule like free parking in monopoly that some people use and others don't or what?
In real poker it doesn't exist but if you're playing with wild cards then why wouldn't it? You've got the 2 sevens, plus the 3 wild cards which you can play as 3 sevens to have 5 sevens.
So basically, it's a house rule that some people play and others don't, but you're probably not going to see it in real tourneys, right?
I've never seen any real poker at a casino played with wild cards. I'm sure Matty's seen way more casinos than I though.
Dumbass.
Also, there probably was a fleshpop growing out of your forehead.
There are a ton of casino poker games that use 5-of-a-kind. Most (if not all) of them, of course are of the video poker variety.
Never played video poker. In fact, i dont think ive ever played any type of poker in the casino. I pretty much stick to blackjack, roulette and occasionally craps in the casinos.
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Well, I like to start off with roulette because of the high payout potential. But if I start losing too much or if my back starts hurting, I'll go play black jack so I can sit for a while and try to win some money back. Once I'm drunk though I'll go to the craps table. I have 0 understanding of the game but when I'm intoxicated I find the it to be exciting and arousing. Then I go to my hotel room, rub one out and cry myself to sleep.
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If you communicated with pics in real life like you do here, you'd be a lot more likable.
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lolol
Went to the local casino for a cheap wednesday night tourney. $30 buy-in, 9000 in starting chips...about 4 tables, $1,500 guaranteed.
Made final table...had about 41,000 in chips...got dealt Jacks, was 2nd to act, pushed all-in, was called by the guy to my left and the chip leader. Flop comes: Ace, 2, Jack. Ace on the turn, and 10 on the river.
Made 80,000 with a full house.
Was second in chip stack and we chopped with 3 people left. Made $350 of $30. Not bad playing against a bunch of conservative players.
I won over $750 in a cash game last night. I know some of my closest friends on this board will be really, really happy for me.
You winning money is like igy getting attention: bliss for one, aggravation for the rest.
Let them eat cake.
Update to make all the board haters happy.
Cash game at the same place last night. Slowly built my stack from $100 to $200 over 6 hours then pissed it away on one river due to pure machismo. "Yeah, I don't care that the board just paired and you re-raised me all in... My straight is totally still awesome!"
Back in the winning column with over $300 tonight... AKA one Phreak chase bet.
Quote from: FastFreddie on October 27, 2012, 07:23:11 AM
Update to make all the board haters happy.
Cash game at the same place last night. Slowly built my stack from $100 to $200 over 6 hours then pissed it away on one river due to pure machismo. "Yeah, I don't care that the board just paired and you re-raised me all in... My straight is totally still awesome!"
:-D
Quote from: FastFreddie on November 10, 2012, 01:57:02 AM
Back in the winning column with over $300 tonight... AKA one Phreak chase bet.
Gut shot?
Called down a bluff with 2nd pair.
Quote from: FastFreddie on November 10, 2012, 01:57:02 AM
Back in the winning column with over $300 tonight... AKA one Phreak chase bet.
lol
So I am shooting craps at the Valley Forge casino on Friday...I buy in for $200 and play a couple hours on it and it finally dwindles down to my last $4. The waitress had just brought me a beer so I threw $2 on YO and $2 on boxcars while I chug my beer. The 12 hits. I have $62. I play on that awhile and about 20min later am down to my last $5 and a fresh beer has arrived. farg it - gimme a $5 yo.
It hits so I have $80. I worked that into $380 and left.
Fun times.
Dream Paigow table...
Scott, russia, tony, nana, and phreak. We would make history and win tens of dollars over a period 12 hours.
i miss nana.
I miss Paigow. The riverboat in ptown doesn't have it unless they're calling it something else for the MA fargtards.
Ok poker degens...give me a book to buy to learn the game. I know the very basics of hold 'em but I want to learn so I can become proficient enough to sit in a live game when I go to Vegas
The way I really learned was just playing. I watched a ton on TV when it got big back in 2003, and then I just started playing. It takes a few games to learn the ropes but
Super System is a long long long long boring read, but it literally goes over EVERYTHING. So you can always skip around the book and read about certain things you want to learn. I would recommend getting the updated one (I think it's just called Super System 2) because it has contributions from many different pros and covers a lot of different styles of play. I never got through etiher of them but I remember it going over very basic stuff, tells you when it's okay to play stuff like suited connectors, when you should fold em, what hands to raise with, etc
I know the basic way to do odds after the flop...count how ever many outs you have, ie 9 cards of the suit left to hit a flush, and multiply it by 4 and that's the % you have to hit...after the turn, take the number of outs and multiply it by 2, that's your % to hit your card on the river...it's not exact but it gives you a rough idea, you'll only be off by a couple % points.
I have been fooling around on free sites and reading the 2+2 forums but its overwhelming right now...being the linear OCD jerk that I am I need to start from the beginning and follow the line from start to finish on how to play.
Thats how I learned craps - bought a book and hammered it
Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on December 12, 2012, 11:30:45 PM
Ok poker degens...give me a book to buy to learn the game. I know the very basics of hold 'em but I want to learn so I can become proficient enough to sit in a live game when I go to Vegas
If you're serious, PM me your address and I'll send you a few. Trying to skim down my bookshelves anyway.
Not that I ever got very far in any of them. I would say just practice man...yeah the basic percentages are important to know but after that it's just all personal style. As long as you know what could possibly beat you, it's all balls.
I win more than I lose, I even played in the WSOP a few years ago but I rarely play anymore. I'll do the tournament or occasional cash game with friends, but casino poker is the biggest bunch of miserable fargs on the planet. It's pretty much the exact opposite of the craps table. Although winning a big pot is a huge rush. Especially on a bluff.
I guess I gave you no advice at all. Get a home game going with friends, shtein even the free games they do at bars, and if you still like it, go take some suckers at the casino. I'm just too impatient to grind out poker in Vegas when there's so much fun stuff and fun people to be around.
Ok I will send you my addy once I get back to Houston (still up in PA). Thanks man
I signed up for PokerStars tonight obviously they only allow play money but being a total noob that's cool. I fooled around a bit and it moves way too fast for me to really learn. Like I said I know the basics but I need to be fully armed with knowledge before I piss money away.
I have read a lot on 2+2 about grinders in Vegas and I agree - I am not looking to do that unless I am there for a week or more. But I will drive over to Louisiana or play the local casinos here in PA once I learn.
That 2+2 forum is great...I have read some stories over there about degenerates that are amazing. One dude did some 40 day medical drug trial for 8k because he went broke.
Coincidentally while fooling around on PS a bit ago there was a documentary about high stakes live poker games in NYC
I"m sure the Vegas grinders do some serious long hours at tables...but yeah when I play in AC, I'll sit down at the $1-$2 table at 3 or 4 PM and won't go back up to the hotel room until like 4-5-6AM (assuming I didn't get beat for my money), with maybe an hour dinner break in there somewhere. Cash games are definitely for the patient people willing to sit down and grind it out.
You never make big money at those tables but if you love poker and love the low risk of it, it can be a good time. Most I ever walked out with was about $950, sat down at the table with $300 and had it up to like $1100 at one point (and it was still early in the night, like 10 oclock or so) and then spent the next 6-7 hours dipping up and down between 900 and 1200 before finally cashing out at $950
Tourny play will definitely be a little more exciting and you won't be sitting at the table as long (in most cases)
Cash games and Tournament play require two different strategies.
Cash games, he with the biggest pile of cash gets to push people around.
Tournament play, depending on what level it is, the closer to the last table it gets, the more conservative people get with their chips. The more conservative the table, the more aggressive you should play. The more aggressive the table, the more conservative you should play. But in a tourney, blinds are relatively small at the beginning, so you should try stealing pots early. Remember, image is everything at the table. It goes a long way.
I have only half-way read the Texas Hold'em No Limit part of Super System. Remember, Brunson comes from the perspective of cash games. There is another set of books, "Harrington on Hold'em" that give you an idea of how to play. I read more of that book, but only half way.
Like Munson and Phatty said, it is all comes with experience and balls. If you have a general idea of what can beat you like Phatty said, and you have a general idea of the likelihood you are to hit your set like Munson said, you are way ahead of a lot of players in your same level.
Word of advice. When it comes to Texas Hold'em it is ALL ABOUT position. If you're on the button, you are the last one to act after the flop, so remember how you can manipulate it and how others can manipulate that as well. The later you are in position, the better.
Also, don't fall in love with your cards, its hard to get away from KK, AA, and AK. Also, do not act quickly. Take a second, breathe, and think about everything that is going on. It may not be as simple a call, raise, or fold as you think.
Good luck.
Maybe one day we can get a :CF Hold'em tournament going while we smoke cigars and get handjobs and back massages from asian hookers...or delivery boys.
Pot odds are very easy to calculate as well but I'm not sure how I'm supposed to use them. I think your odds to hit your card are supposed to be as good or better than the pot odds, otherwise it's supposedly "not worth your while"
It's kind of supposed to be like a scientific, "What the hell".
You have a zesty hand, you're out of position, maybe one of your cards hit the board, and your odds of getting the set you neet is I don't know 10% or 1 to 10 ratio but the pot has 4000 and it is only $500 for you to call, getting pot odds of 8 to 1, then you're supposed to mentally have a threesome with those ratios and make a decision. Or something.
Maybe I should read the 'odds' section of those books.
Greg " Fossil man" Raymer got popped at a NC hotel by a prostitution sting operation
I don't think this thread is about that kind of poker.
If anyone is looking for a sweat I will be playing the 100+9 100k on Revolution in about 20 mins. User name $WhiteMagic$. FYI, do not sign up on Lock they are going bankrupt. I no longer play thru Lock. I was lucky enough to get a user name on intertops before they blockaded sign ups from the US. GL me.
It's hard to imagine a worse first hour. I played 13/9/72. Big hand happened when I 3-b sb with JJ in level 2. Raiser calls, caller folds. I see bet almost 100% of my 3-bet range out of position. Flop comes KQ3 rainbow. I see bet a little under half pot. Villain calls. Turn J putting two hearts on the board. Stack to pot right now is a little over 3-1. I donk half pot again. Villain shoves. I call Villain turns over A10. I don't make a boat on the river. It happens.
I am still optimistic about this tournament for whatever reason. I have a heart beat.
you are the anti munson...and i love it
he would have won a couple million in his first half hour
good luck
Yes, claiming I've won a few hundred dollars in AC a bunch of times is the same as claiming to win millions. I think you're just projecting your extreme use of hyperbole on other users now.
Chameleon, what is Revolution? Never heard of it
Quote from: Munson on April 21, 2013, 05:15:21 PM
Yes, claiming I've won a few hundred dollars in AC a bunch of times is the same as claiming to win millions. I think you're just projecting your extreme use of hyperbole on other users now.
Chameleon, what is Revolution? Never heard of it
Revolution is a network that was created about 12 months ago when Lock left merge. It is essentially a conglomerate of a bunch of skins including, Cake, Lock, Intertops, and a few others.
^^^^^
Terrible usage of the word conglomerate.
Actually not as bad as I originally thought these skins operate in an array of illegal activities whether it be sportsbooks, online casinos, or online poker.
Bust, not what I was hoping for at all. Same guy that hit the gutter when I hit the set knocked me out. No real strategic gaffs just poor results. Onward.
Have you noticed there is no graceful way to leave the table once you've been knocked out. Half the players can't believe you played your hand and would have done better themselves and the other half are happy to see one less competitor on the table.
It's a bit humiliating. I think the best way would be to just flip the table over and run.
Made about $300 in a game with friends and joined a tournament for $40 today and made $397. Not a bad 2-day run. I'll lose it all next time I play.
april 2012 thru april 2013 nevada casinos won $2.39 billion on penny slots.....that's more than blackjack roulette and craps combined
Pachinko business in Japan, over $200-billion annually.
Just got back from AC last night. Made $950 playing 1-2 no limit. I'm going to retire on my winnings.
You douche. I was just there Wed-Fri. Had I known you were going this weekend I'd have adjusted accordingly and notified local authorities that you might be a terrorist before I left. How 'bout a little heads up next time?
Dodged that bullet.
1-2 as in dollar two dollar blinds?
No, 1-2 players.
What was your buy-in rusty?
Love the 1-2 tables in Harrahs...usually easy money
Is that right poker billy? (I don't know what that means).
This is setting up for a CF poker show down. $1,000 buy-in, winner takes all.
Quote from: SunMo on August 19, 2013, 03:29:03 PM
1-2 as in dollar two dollar blinds?
That's the one. Sat down three times over the weekend, bought in for $200 each time. Never stood with less than $445. I must give off an air of utter incompetence because people just couldn't wait to put money into my pots.
It was your boyish good looks. Who wouldn't want to take advantage of a boyish looking, skinny white girl?
Quote from: hbionic on August 19, 2013, 04:54:34 PM
Is that right poker billy? (I don't know what that means).
This is setting up for a CF poker show down. $1,000 buy-in, winner takes all.
that game wouldnt work because someone would have to lose and no one on cf ever loses when they gamble
i've lost disgusting amounts of money my last few trips to vegas. its just not fun to talk about.
Exactly. Who goes online to talk about money they lose playing cards? Give me a break.
people talking about gambling winnings online is like talking about a fantasy league you won that no one else is in.....or how your kid is the best player on his little league team
its kinda futile cause no one believes the person and no one cares
QuoteA thread to talk about poker
IGY is the only one that still thinks people come to this thread to lie about winning some money playing poker.
Was watching the recent WSOP Main Event from Vegas where Phil Ivey has pocket 3's, raises, is called by AQo, then called by some dude, forget his name with pocket 10's.
Flop comes A, 10, 3.
I believe Ivey raises, AQ re-raises, pocket 10's calls, Ivey pushes all-in, AQ folds, pocket 10's calls and has Ivey covered. Trash on the turn, trash on the river and Ivey bows out.
It just reinforces my feeling that usually nothing good comes from shoving all-in. Even when you think you have the nuts. More bad things than good have happened to me in my all-ins.
It's really hard for me not to go all in when I've got 3 of a kind. Though I'd likely be scared shteinless to go all in with three 3s when I see an Ace and a 10 sitting out there. At that point I've got to assume my opponent has his own pair (either A or 10) and both of them beat my 3s. Guess it's just a matter of whether or not you think the guy is bluffing at that point. Since the guy went all in after the flop, I'd have probably folded.
I'm not an avid poker player though, so there's probably some major flaws with my logic and probably explains why I hardly ever win any money on the rare occasion that I do play.
You shouldn't be scared if someone made a pair of aces or two pairs. You actually want that when holding pocket pair and you flopped a set. The problem when you hold low set is that the middle set is what is usually going to kill you. Now, the percentages of that happening are small, but high enough where you have to proceed with caution.
Yeah flopping low set is always nerve wracking...but I'd rather push all in there and try to take the pot down than let someone stick around and suck out to a higher set on the turn or river.
The flip side of flopping low set is people almost never see it coming, and you can usually get large chunks of money off of people
Quote from: rjs246 on August 20, 2013, 10:15:03 AM
QuoteA thread to talk about matty getting the jerp from a las vegas crack whore
A pot-sized bet should be enough to see who has what. If someone calls, then remember pot control, so you don't all-in yourself out.
won a $500 pot with 5 aces last night...was pretty happy about it
Quote from: hbionic on August 20, 2013, 12:05:19 PM
A pot-sized bet should be enough to see who has what. If someone calls, then remember pot control, so you don't all-in yourself out.
Problem with that is poker got so popular that not everyone at the table plays by the book anymore. Someone with top pair and a shtein kicker or even a flush draw might call a pot sized bet. Hell I sometimes pay to see the turn if I'm working on a high flush draw.
Deadspin just posted this...farging great
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1FtJvWSvTS0
lol ouch.
Just turned it on tonight to see Doyle Brunson is still in it with about 600K in chips, and they're 18 away from the money.
Would be awesome to see him go far.
dude should have kept his mouth shut. that was awesome.
ive spent many youtube hours watching the worst bad beats, laydowns, bluffs, finals etc.--why--who the hell knows
while youtube is one of the best creations ever, the right side of the page is the farging devil
Poker. It's enough to make a man go broke.
taking a private plane to AC in a few hours...if anyone is in AC and wants to gamble / watch the birds at chickie and petes at the trop tomorrow, hit me up.
Shame you weren't there last week, you could have seen me experience some of the worst luck at a craps table I've ever seen.
Just wasn't a good trip, nothing went the right way. Even took $60 over to blackjack at a $10 table....was broke in 7 hands.
yeah i haven't won in approximately 20 consecutive vegas / AC trips. but i feel good today.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/02/26/delaware-signs-online-poker-compact-with-nevada/5827947/?
QuoteWILMINGTON, Del. -- Delaware Gov. Jack Markell and Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval on Tuesday signed the country's first gambling compact that will allow people in both states to play online poker against each other.
The governors described the agreement as the first of its kind and said they hoped other states, like New Jersey – the only other state to have so far legalized online gambling – would join.
Unlike casino expansion, in which one state competes with another, the governors said the new opportunities could increase revenues for all states involved.
"I consider this a landmark intersection in the road of gaming history," Sandoval said at a signing ceremony in Wilmington. The deal comes as increasing competition in the region, especially in Maryland, has hurt Delaware's brick-and-mortar casinos, which historically have provided the state with a significant amount of its annual revenues.
The technology is not yet developed, so it will take some time for multistate online poker to be up and running, the governors said. But the agreement signed Tuesday gets "the legal piece" taken care of, Markell said.
The agreement with Nevada, currently limited to poker, is "a natural next step to make sure our gaming industry remains on the cutting edge," Markell said. A bigger pool of players will be more attractive to potential players, Markell said.
People would need to be physically present in either state to participate, no matter where they live, the governors said.
The Delaware Gaming Competitiveness Act of 2012 allowed for Internet gambling, as well as parlay football bets in venues outside of casinos, and the creation of a statewide Keno network. Online gambling in Delaware started in November.
The new agreement will allow people in both states to compete for the same pot of winnings, Markell said. Each state from which the players hail will keep the revenues, Sandoval said. It was unclear how much revenue the new offering is expected to generate.
Sandoval said his state's online gambling legislation was passed one year ago, 24 hours after it had been introduced, making it the fastest moving law to be approved in Nevada's history.
Democratic state Rep. Helene Keeley called it "a step in the right direction," along the line of interstate compacts in agriculture and biotechnology. She said 10 states are considering legislation for online gambling.
"This is something that is coming of age," Keeley said.
http://www.vanityfair.com/society/2014/07/viper-room-hollywood-poker-game
Jeremy Bloom's sister ran the game and wrote this
Tobey Maguire is a douche
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That's his sister? :o
http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=172390
23 years old, from North Wales. Just tearing it up. SKILL GAME!
http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/updates.asp
I played in a $30 no-limit tournament last night...about 20 people. i was out on my 7th or 8th hand. KK, made a pretty hefty raise, other dude went straight all-in so I called. 88 and of course and 8 comes out on the table. boo.
I. Hate. That.
It's good to know there's poker down there. :deion
OMG, Phatty's real name is Dan Cates :o
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If I can give one word of advice to help you become more profitable at Poker...that word would be: Patience.
It's made me the most profitable over the past two weeks than ever before.
Was playing at an aggressive table and I'm under the gun, I get pocket rockets. It is a 2/5 table. Stacks average 500-1000...I buy in with $140 (super short stack). Action on the table has been crazy, so I make it 15 in hopes of getting re-raised. Of course, I get 4 callers. Flop comes K-10-8. I make it 65. I get one caller. Turn 9. I push the rest of my chips in. He calls. 4 on the river. I show my aces, he shows QJ. I didn't cry as I was leaving only because there was a cute waitress watching.
I played that totally farging wrong. :boom
rough. chances are open ended straight guy was gonna call whatever after that flop.
i feel like i'm about 50-50 with AA or KK which doesn't make sense.
i played for about 3 hours in AC one night last week and pretty much broke even. i have so little fun playing poker at casinos. most of them are miserable fargs.
I agree with that. Worst part are the iceholes that throw their cards at the dealers or bad mouth them. Poker table tough guys sitting at a 1/2 table. farging dickshteins.
Quote from: hbionic on August 07, 2014, 03:11:29 PM
Was playing at an aggressive table and I'm under the gun, I get pocket rockets. It is a 2/5 table. Stacks average 500-1000...I buy in with $140 (super short stack). Action on the table has been crazy, so I make it 15 in hopes of getting re-raised. Of course, I get 4 callers. Flop comes K-10-8. I make it 65. I get one caller. Turn 9. I push the rest of my chips in. He calls. 4 on the river. I show my aces, he shows QJ. I didn't cry as I was leaving only because there was a cute waitress watching.
I played that totally farging wrong. :boom
Where are you able to buy-in for $140(28BBs) @2-5? You should be trying to get 1-3 callers there pre and create a stack to pot ratio of as close to 1-1 as possible. Assuming the standard raise at the table was 25. I would open to 25. Then ship literally every flop. If you try to piece mail it out you won't charge the draws. 25 pre, you would get probably 3 callers. Pot equals 107 minus the rake. Call in 100 for the sake to simplicity. Shove 115 at 100. If QJ calls there you are making money in the long run.
As played I would still ship the flop, because the stack to pot ratio is still pretty high and you are leaving yourself with peanuts on the turn.
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Om nom nom
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My pee pee gets hard thinking about this. Money equals pu$$y yo.
hbionic, where do you buy into 2-5 no no for $140.
Borgata/PartyPoker adding 50k to 6 tournaments this weekend. The HR is $500, which absorbs 10k of the stimulus. The other 40k is distributed between 5 tournaments ranging in buy-ins from 50-$200. All 5 can be played for $500. Value town in the internets of NJ this Sunday.
http://nj.partypoker.com/blog/dear-nj-partypoker-community-please-accept-our-sincerest-apologies.html
i have a free entry into a $150K poker tournament in vegas this weekend. i'm going to win.
I'll be your railbird and cheerleader for $10k.
I don't know how to play poker. Not even Pai Gow
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I'm still laughing
Wonder if he shoved it in for a bet?
seems like the casino is at fault to me for having zesty equipment but this cat already lost a similar lawsuit
http://www.philly.com/philly/business/20150827_ap_896b6093b44d4c5b95436decd381edfe.html
Wow, no one has posted in this in 3 years.
If you haven't been paying attention to wsop this year, the very last hand last night which took them from final 10 to 9, one dude goes in with KK, guy calls with AA, third guy also calls with KK. Craziness. AA won obvi.
Maybe even more crazy is the dude that won the whole thing in 09 is also at the final table this year. Talking like almost 8000 people in it. Nuts.
That is nuts.
I was at a tournament at the Commerce Casino in LA a couple years back. It was a freebie to get into a $500k guarantee.
10-person table....I get pocket QQ's, but dude before me goes all in, I go all in, dude to my left goes all in, some other guy down the row goes all in, and then the button goes all in.
1st guy in-KK
Me- QQ
Dude next to me- QQ
Dude after him- JJ
Button- AA
The dude with Aces won out, he was rivering fools on the table in hands he didn't belong in.
WSOP Main Event is a bucketlist item for me.
Need investors.
Anyone interested to sponsor me? We'll work out a percentage agreement based on winnings (if any).
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NUTS!
Chuggie went all-in with pocket queens and he's looking for a sponsor?
I hope you mean an AA sponsor because you're clearly drunk.
Quote from: Rome on July 13, 2018, 12:42:19 PM
Chuggie went all-in with pocket queens and he's looking for a sponsor?
I hope you mean an AA sponsor because you're clearly drunk.
I was short stack. :paranoid