A thread to talk about poker

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

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".

[Tomahawk]

As aformentioned, nothing about poker is hard work.

[Munson]

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.

[ice grillin you]

stop talking about your poker exploits...for real...no one cares....and the more you pimp your game the less believable it sounds...

[Munson]

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.

[Wingspan]

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.

[Father Demon]

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.

[rjs246]

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.

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.

[Wingspan]

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.

[Father Demon]

[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.

[Wingspan]

[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

[phattymatty]

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.

[Munson]

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.

[phattymatty]

this monkey is going to play in the main event.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zRKi19ocXw&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fdeadspin%2Ecom%2F

[phattymatty]

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.