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We knew he was a donkey, so it is no surprise that he's the reining champion...Taken from the WSOP site's ME structure page, a homonymic error that made me chuckle:2006 REINING CHAMPIONJamie Gold $12,000,000
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How come nobody ever seems to get the jopke?But, Your Retarded. -
Well, by the transitive property of problems, you still have a problem. As I said, not all problems are equal, or difficult to solve. Once the OP is fully emancipated, that ceases to be a problem for him.I wouldn't say worrying your parents makes it a problem. Maybe for them, but not necessarily for the individual. -
Why do winning players think they can't have a gambling problem? Gambling problems aren't always about money. Put it this way: If gambling is causing you a problem, you have a gambling problem. You spend too much time playing poker, your grades slip. Gambling problem. You spend too much time playing poker, you worry your parents. Gambling problem. You don't have enough cash for food, but you have money for poker. Gambling problem. How serious these problems are, and what you need to do to fix them is up to you and your family. Some problems are easy to fix.http://www.fullcontactpoker.com/poker-foru...st&p=702394
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We're talking 1/2 here. Is anyone playing that game except as a hobby? Still, I have a very low tolerance for going "broke" -- I haven't taken money out of my disposable income for poker in about 5 years, and I'd hate to do that now. 4K seems like a lot, though, but it would be manageable, I think. I just have to avoid peeling off the bills for non-poker stuff for a goodly while.BR questions depends on what the BR means to you. Namely is poker a hobby, an important source of additional income or a full time job. Assuming hobby and your BR is replenishable if you bust then I wouldn't worry too much. If it's not easily replenishable I'd want more like 4K.
If I'm reading that right, you'd try to limp or see cheap flops with a lot of hands, and only get aggressive with the monsters? There are so few limping opportunities in this game -- occasionally, you'll be able to limp from very late position, but 'limping' is often a 10-12 proposition. I think it's because of the frequency of raises that the newer players are calling 6x-8x raises with weak hands -- they just can't stand folding preflop. There probably isn't a correct strategy, and there's probably more money in the long run in being a controlled maniac, if I could hang in for the long run.As for strategy I'd play fairly loose passive pre-flop and look to make a hand. I wouldn't worry about getting pushed off hands if they're top pair or over pair kinds of hands. You'll make so much on your monsters that you can afford to give up some winners and play passive with your mediocre hands - and TPTK or an overpair is a mediocre hand in a very loose game. -
The 1/2 NL (live) game i've been playing has been getting progressively 'better' or 'worse', depending on your perspective. A lot of 3/6 players are moving to 1/2, and they're bringing their "call anything with anything" attitude along with them. it isn't uncommon now to see calls and pushes with marginal hands like gutshots or KTo. So far, so juicy, I know. It creates two questions regarding how to play in a super-laggy NL game.1) I've built my BR up to about 2500, and have only "dipped in" when it got above that. As the game (d)evolves, I'm thinking I need to move that baseline up. Does anyone have guidance?2) Playing strategy for this type of game... should one be more aggressive, or move to lock-down mode? I've tried both, and while I don't have anywhere near enough hands to be sure, I have been having more success with lock-down, but I know (see) I'm getting moved off a lot of winners and leaving money on the table. Anyone else playing these types of games?
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Has anyone succeeded in getting any sites other than pokerstars to run under wine? I'd especially like to get FTP working.
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I read the article, and offhand, I'd say their poker software needs a bit of help. While I commend them on thier ability to attract hotties to the poker table (see pic), the board two JS and two Qs on, and the lucky SOB whose cards we see has made 4 royal flushes in ONE HAND.
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Kevin: I won the 2002 $2,500 No-Limit Deuce to Seven Draw Tournament at the World Series of Poker in Vegas. So yeah, I’m pretty good at poker.Phyllis: Look, I have all the clovers!
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I don't speak turkish, so I'm guessing, but it looks more or less like "peace to you", something I don't understand ("time is now/always"?), anti-magazine, and "god is great".Deep stuff....Weird. Does anyone know what the message says, it is turkish apparently? -
First place brand new cadillac, second place set of steak knives, third place is YOU"RE FIRED!! lol
Gotta love me some Baldwin emoting.
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why are u here then
That reminds me. I hate "I quit poker" posts.I hate that I'm addicted' -
And dolts who slow-fold. Show them the flush, and they sit there staring at their cards for 30 seconds before they snap them with their fingernail, show them to the donk next to them and slam them into the muck. For heaven's sake, you're beat. Muck and move on already!People that slowroll. -
You should get that cough looked at. It sounds like it might be serious. Oh, and I guess I missed your post, but not your feelings. I hope you feel better soon.Cough cough -
I'm curious how people rate the fishiness of a particular room in LV. I assume that most of the players in any given room are tourists, there for a few days only, and that most of them are playing where they're staying, eating, etc.I've been to LV 8 or 9 times in the last few years, and have found the play all over the map - depending on who I was sitting with, rather than what room I was in.Oh, and newbie tip #1: The "Duece" -- double decker bus -- is a cheap way to get up-and-down the strip and downtown. It can be slow at peak times, though. At $5 for the day pass, it's a great value, if you're not in a raging hurry. Taxis are faster, if there aren't lineups, but expensive.
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It is becoming an epidemic. I was playing stud last week, and these four guys were playing a whole second round of cards at showdown, where they rolled their hands one card at a time, like they were playing blind ****ing baseball. The dealer would just stare at the ceiling waiting for them to decide who won so she could ship the pot.I left after about an hour -- I just couldn't stand it.Slow rolling, live or online, is tacky.
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Maybe better to agree if you're way ahead, especially if you have a lot of money at risk.There definitely appears to be some ettiquette involved. When it's a coinflip, I can see both players agreeing to run it twice, basically saying "OK, there's a good chance we'll just chop this." But when someone is an overwhelming favorite and agrees to run it twice, it seems like such a bad idea, and that it's just the sort of thing that if players ask for it, they will always say OK. I think there was a HSP hand with Matusow and Farha where Sammy was way ahead and I couldn't understand why he would agree, but I guess it's so in the future his opponents will agree when he is way behind, just hoping to chop. -
Agreed, and I've backed off tables where teamplay was happening. I didn't say online poker was bad, I stated I'd stopped playing and iddn't want to join the arms race. I can't argue the losing player bit. Buyins-cashouts is a negative number in my case, no question. I'm down around $500 cash (~900 if you count bonuses). Not much of a hit on my BR, and not nearly enough to make me a losing player overall, but it clearly isn't my game.Yea, and when you play online poker you actually have to realize you are a losing player.It kinda sux when your account reads $0.00---Seriously though, bots are bad for obvious reasons...but to say that all of online poker is "bad" is silly. This sort of thing is fixable, the thing that really sux about this is if FTP has known about it, yet do nothing...well what's that say about FTP? Collusion/team play happens in brick and mortar play as well...you just have to be careful in both theatres.- Jordan -
I'm continually reinforced that my decision to stop playing online is a good one. I always worried about collusion/team play and now a person has to worry (realistically worry) about bots. Pokertracker and other crutches aren't my thing. That's a lot of risk vectors, and a lot of "edge" to overcome. I don't want to join the arms race, so I'm staying at the local cardrooms for my "fix".
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I'm sure this is the weirdest thread I've ever read three pages of. Pole vaulter is hot, though, so some redemption.
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I'm glad the hijack took such an uplifting turn. A more interesting topic than the one I started, that's for sure.If you're enjoying your life, and happy with the choices you've made, there is no judgment from me.
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Recently, I had someone with whom I've played many hours of poker at the local casino show up at a business meeting. We exchanged cards and both seemed to decide simultaneously to pretend we hadn't met. In truth, I didn't know his last name until I read it on his card.I'm not shy about poker - everyone knows I play. I don't know why, but the idea of saying "Oh, I know Gary, we play poker together," didn't seem right, and Gary seemed to draw the same conclusion. Even in my enlightened state, even with poker being pretty "cool" right now, I still attach a bit of stigma to the undertaking.Has it happened to you?
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Oh, tetris-brain. I used to get that all the time. Look at the city skyline and start dropping shapes in. I'd dream Tetris, too. It was probably an alien technology re-mapping (reprogramming) our brains. I'm not sure why the aliens want us to be able to do these tasks -- a critical intergalactic shortage of warehouseman maybe?Don't have poker dreams from playing too much (which I do sometimes), but when I was a kid I used to dream about placing tiles in just the right way from playing too much Tetris.Sad thing was, I wasn't sleeping. It was like a screen overlay on my vision while I was awake. Horrific and sad. -
This is an easy one. There are two possible outcomes. 1/2 = 50% = 50/50. You see how the math works there? Either you win or you lose. 50-50. It shouldn't be necessary, but I know it is: sw.I would like to know how she got 50/50 odds on one of the worst table games in the casino (in terms of house edge) ?
Jamie Gold Reference From Wsop
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