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Seriously download hi res client from truepoker.com beats poker stars hands down
 
yea, i got it, and i like it for playing no limit hold em, but for omaha, there arent enough people on the site yet (i think). i went to n/l omaha and there was only one table open, and i played for a little bit, then went and played hold em.

i definately like it more than pokerstars though, like you said. my name on truepoker is starsglowin as well.

Johny, i looked for you yesterday, but you werent on, or were on a different server. do you play n/l hold em?
 
yeah I only play n/l holdem on there. Normaly on play for fun server 2.

I'll look for you name when I go on.
 
LoonEDnB said:
haahahahahahaha you played Magic?


hey man, there ain't nothin wrong with a good old magic game man, but yea it does cost a shitload to play :)
 
A friend introduced me to vcstudentpoker.com and I play it now and again. I'm about even over all. Lost about $40 and won about the same, so not too bad.

A friend is hopelessly addicted to it. He's 6 weeks away from his university finals and instead of doing coursework has spent the whole of our 6 week Easter holiday playing poker. Every day goes online around 2pm and comes offline around 2am. He knows his shit though, its a bad day it he's only up $100. He's had days of being up over $1000, winning hands worth $800 sometimes! For a student thats a serious amount of money! For anyone, thats a serious amount of money in 1 day!
 
Ugh, I lost $40 over the weekend playing no-limit hold em.

Fuck it, you win some and you lose some. :\
 
i posted this in another thread a while ago but here it is again.

In case any of you poker people are students, there is an online poker championship where you can win your fees (up to $41k). Its completely free to enter, you never need to give your card details, and you can qualify for the main event via one of the remaining few satellites.

If you want in, send me a PM and i will send you the details.
 
I'm up about $1400 in my poker playing career. I host a low-stakes game once every two weeks.

Sunday is full of younger players who are very easy to sucker and bully around by being aggressive.

That's a great way to shrink your player base. You'll be the most bad-ass pot bully around, but you'll have nobody to play with.

At our tables everybody's good enough now to recognize a pot bully and take them apart.

And I will only play no limit Texas Hold'em.

And that's a good way to limit your future in the game.

No limit sucks for a home game. There's no fun in losing broadway to aces over tens, and being out half an hour into the game. Bad beats are a lot different when your stack is on the line.

The majority of casino pay tables play limit. I will not have a completely no-limit evening game at my place - most I'll go is pot limit.

Learn to command both and you'll extend both your skillset and your enjoyment.

Our game this friday starts at 8:00 p.m.. First three hours are limit hold'em with a $25 buy-in, and after that there's a $20/head no-limit tourney. Third gets their money back, second gets $40, and first takes $100.

The trick to having a successful, long-lived regular home game is to make sure even the people who lose are happy with their evening of poker.
 
Last Thursday I was playing at a local casino pay table (3/6 limit).

Two guys arrived at the table, brand new to playing the game at a casino, and not very experiened in the game. It was the hold'em half hour (alternating half hours of hold'em and omaha).

When one of them picked up his two cards his eyes lit right up. Figured him for high pair. He had $50 in chips.

I had K/Q, and the flop came A/J/10, rainbow. Unless a pair came up to allow for a full house, I had the nuts.

When the ace hit the board, his eyes lit up again, and I knew he was sitting on trip aces. He bet, everybody else was out, and I considered my options.

I could have crushed him right out of his entire stack in that single first hand, but I chose to just call his bets and win the smallest he'd let me get away with.

He was shocked when he lost. Bad intro to poker at the casino.

My point is, there are friendly games, and there are tournaments. You don't have to play every hand like it's your last. You don't get better by playing mercilessly.

Too many damn hot-headed young people playing the game who feel it's a deadly serious life and death struggle to milk every dollar possible out of every hand.

Relax, pay attention, and you'll learn just as much without making everybody else regret playing with you.
 
For every 1 poker outing I bring money home, I usually do 2 that I lose. So a 1:2 ratio is about where I'm at. I usually play no limit Texas hold 'em, unlimited buy backs, .50 and 1.00 blinds, no antes. I got tired with "friendly games because at the end of a 6 hour game I'd only be up 75% - 100% of what I started out with (usually $20).

With no limit, I can go up 4 - 5 times what I started out with, and actually make decent money. I don't have a problem check, raise, re-raising to their entire stack if it means getting them out of the game and their chips in front of me. This is what some people call "bullying", but bullying is what brings the $$ home. Also, the odds of winning hands increase with less players at the board, because the likelyhood of someone else holding a better hand decreases.

I'd recommend watching 'Poker for Dummies', I borrowed it from the library and it helped alot in reading "tells", both conscious and subconscious ones. (Jittery hands, reaction times, how a player flips the chips out, how fast they call, how to spot a pot stealer, what a player who looks around the room very uninterested means, etc.)
 
Where do you find regular no-limit games? Only ones around here are tournaments with no rebuys once it's no limit.

My home games are always $50 stake. Some people buy back in. Mind you, I play with industry people with established careers. A $100 loss is three hours or less of wages.

Our record is held by me - I cashed out $220 after five hours.

Yeah, I play better at a short table (6 people or less). I think everybody does.

If you really want an insight into tells, check out Mike Caro's Book of Poker Tells.

My way of thinking for home games is that if everybody plays deadly serious and people get busted out, pretty soon there won't be enough regular players. I want to host that game for a long time, so it behooves us to keep it as friendly as possible.
 
I get together with friends from school, and their friends, and then they bring friends, etc. I played Saturday with 15 other guys and 2 girls (18 total). Ten at one table, and 8 at the other. You could cash out whenever you wanted, so technically you could win your 1st two hands and cash right out.

It's never more than 20 bucks to buy in, and I've only been suckered into buying back in once. ( :X )
 
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