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  1. What happens to the pot if everyone (or everyone who makes it to the end) fouls?
  2. Here's a game you don't come across often - Pass the Trash Hi/Low 8 or better. Played a crazy hand of this in my home game a few weeks ago, and I'm curious what people think I should have done. (cross posted from another poker forum) There were a lot of people in the hand (5 got to showdown) so I'll call players P1 and P2 based on when their position relative to the dealer (I would be P6, or the cutoff had we been playing Hold'em). Obviously there isn't a ton of information in this game. Everyone holds seven cards, and you only know what you've passed to other players and how confid
  3. Cardplayer (SpadeClub) a ClubWPT are loving this ... anyone ever use those subscription-based sites?
  4. IMO if it's not heads up, it's against the rules to reveal your hand because you're giving the other player who is yet to make a decision valuable information. If he said it after the hand, then it'd be fine.I could be wrong, but I shouldn't be.
  5. Ugh. Thanks for giving me that mental image.
  6. I've been reading these boards for awhile now, just starting to get involved in the conversation. Just read a brag post which detailed tournament results for like 6-7 tournaments in one day (well done Jambot).Got me to thinking how much some of you guys are able to play. It's rare that I'd find more than 5 hours a week to play, and I rarely have time to sit down for a big MTT, but I know there are some on these boards who are making a living playing online/live.So how much do you play? And if you play more than 20 hours a week, do you also have a full-time job? Or are you a college student?Sor
  7. I laughed.Is there going to be a progress report after each event so we can see who's ahead in each pairing and how we're doing with our picks? That'd be sweet - though I'm not gonna complain one bit about the contest, this is nice.Trying to do the FTP fantasy one too, but you've got to pick 15 runners in each event ... a little harder to do, especially if you don't know exactly what they're going to enter when there's two tourneys in a day (some will be easier to figure than others ... like DN will post what his plans are, but it's tough to research 100-some odd players), or if they're going
  8. Well done Donk! If you keeping increasing your bankroll 8x every four months, in two years you'll have $13 million and can retire. A man can dream!
  9. Back when I was between jobs, I was young and stupid and instead of saving my precious $$, I played in a few $5.50 MTTs on PokerRoom.com (this was a long time ago) between searches on Monster.com. I ended up scoring wins in the same tournament on back to back days to win about $900 total. I just about fainted the second time I did it, and no, I've never done anything approaching the same since.Was pretty huge at the time for me, was out of work and it gave me time to find what ended up being a great job ... writing about poker, believe it or not. In a way, it was probably good that I was unemp
  10. The reason I picked Barry in this is because he's more likely to play the non-hold'em events and make final tables. Sure, Ferguson will probably get through 95 percent of the field in one, maybe two of the $1500 NL events, but in order to really get a sizeable cash he'll have to finish in the top 3-4. Barry will probably make it to 3-4 final tables and have more moderately sized cashes, so I think Barry will take this one easily ... unless Ferguson makes it deep in a NL event with a big field, then he runs away with it.
  11. I believe PokerRoom.com used to offer it, but they stopped taking US players post-UIGEA and then went busto a month or two ago.
  12. I've played at Pitbull, but only in freerolls and with the money I won off those freerolls. The traffic there is really slow, not much action, and it's only NL hold'em, and generally just low stakes. If you want to have any sort of game selection, go elsewhere.Only cashed out once, and I got a check 2-3 weeks after I requested it.
  13. I'd say it's likely one has A-5 and the other might have A-5-6, or A-5-4-4 or wheel and two pair, and then you're drawing to one out for the high and two outs to be quartered. Not the odds I'd like to be facing.
  14. To build from freerolls, I would say play on PitbullPoker.com. I would never advise you to make a deposit there, because they'll add an instant bonus to it and then will refuse to release any money until you complete the conditions they set forth. However, they have $25 freerolls that are limited to 300 entrants and that pay 18. It's pretty easy to make it to the money, I'd say if you focus all your energy on it you could have $20 in a week. They also have $25 "freerolls" with rebuys that aren't all that difficult to cash in without rebuying, because most of the people don't have a balance to
  15. I haven't played there in a couple of months. I played for awhile after the scandal and found the low stakes stud hi-lo games very beatable (esp. w/bonus cash coming back ... since AP bases bonus release on when you've contributed to the pot, I played stud since you contribute an ante in every hand). Found I was just breaking even though for a month or so, so I withdrew my balance there.
  16. Good points. I struggled with 5-10 that ended up on the cutting room floor. Durr was actual number 11, the toughest to cut. Given my actual audience, I'm not sure how many of them know who he is, and that was the deciding factor.
  17. Daniel's blog post on the finale mentions that he would be interested in being on the next season because he didn't like the way professional poker players were portrayed. After thinking about it, I thought having an entire cast of poker players might be the most entertaining thing on television - at least for those of us who follow the game.Here's a link to my top-10 players who should be invited to participate in "Celebrity Apprentice: Poker Edition" and why ...
  18. I would add that playing different types of stud games at the same time is never a good idea. Lost quite a bit one time capping every street when I had the only hand that could have a low in a 4-handed pot when I finally realized that the rest of the table was playing Stud Hi and I was playing Hi/Lo. Makes multi-tabling HORSE, my personal favorite, a little tough, though.
  19. Thanks! I really had a blast thinking about it. My mom isn't a huge poker fan - but I'm grown now, so she doesn't say much. Haven't had a chance to talk to her yet today (Dad is taking her out - we live too far away to make a day trip out of it), but I'm interested to see what she thinks of what I had to say!
  20. Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms reading this, and don't forget to call your Mom today!After all, without Mom, would you really know how to play poker? What do you think? Anything to add? Did I miss anything?
  21. I'm married, and both my wife and I work full time and have good paying jobs landing us squarely in the middle class. After paying the mortgage, daycare, bills, etc., discretionary income isn't as much as I'd like, so a $50 deposit is doable, but not something I'd relish.I remember what it was like to be 18 and work 10 hours to make $50 (okay, I'm dating myself here - minimum wage was a lot lower when I was that age). If you're in school, 8-10 hours a week is quite a bit, and while you don't have a mortgage, you do have to put gas in the car and god forbid you want to take a girl out to a movi
  22. My favorite tell from Navarro is the standing up tell. When a player stands up to get a closer look at the flop/turn/river, it almost certainly hit them. When player stands up and leans in to get a closer look, they probably really liked that card. If they didn't want it, they would more likely shrink away from it. Seems to be pretty true to form for the people I play with.
  23. I always hate myself when I type "nice catch" in chat after getting sucked out on the river. And yet I still find myself writing it ... gotta get out of that habit.
  24. FYPNo way they'll let companies like PokerStars and Full Tilt, that are currently doing business in the US continue to do so, IMO. In fact, if this passed, I bet you'd see Harrah's and Party form a very quick partnership.
  25. Most of my online play has been at PokerStars and AP, and since my AP account was previously tagged for a non-rakeback affiliate, I'm shopping around for a new rakeback room.I'm a low stakes, low volume player (probably 15-20 hours/month) ring game player. I'm wondering what loyalty programs people think are the best, because that might tip the balance for me. I'm unlikely to hit the Ironman levels at Full Tilt, and PokerStars points aren't of a whole lot of use to me, since I can't convert them to cash.What do you all think? Which loyalty programs do you prefer, and why? Thanks for your input
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