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Journal Em Emalb's Journal: I'm guilty (a poll) 27

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I'm addicted to Poker. And no, not just No Limit Texas Hold Em.

I'll play 7 stud, 5 card draw, Omaha, you name it.

I've played local tournaments and done pretty well. My wife has played surprisingly well. She's won us a two night's free stay in a Grand Casino in either Biloxi or Tunica. We both play online. So far I've turned $50 into around $150 in about a month.

I'm having a good time.

Anyway, with all the hype out there surrounding the games, I'm guessing there's a lot of you that play.

Am I wrong?

Have you caught the poker fever?

A) no

B) yes

C) poker is for lamerz, I have the latest and greatest kernel which I have masturbated to a glorious finish in my stiff "happy sock" while it compiled.

D) I dunno bout no poker, but C is NASTY.

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  • And...no. I'm not into the poker. It's ok; I'll play it.

  • B. (Score:2)

    by Abm0raz ( 668337 )
    I play at least twice a week (somtimes as many as 5 times) in homegames and drop $50 or so online each week. Currently I average about $100 a week won in home games per week. I'm slowly learning the online strategies and making my money stretch a lot farther. I turned $50 into $180 in an hour on Sunday.

    -Ab
    • where do you play online?

      I mainly stick to pokerstars.

      Did I read that right? You're putting in $50 a week online?

      check out http://www.recgroups.com/rec.gambling.poker/ [recgroups.com] for bonus referrals and stuff. (put in $50, use a code, play a certain number of raked hands and you get like 50% bonus cash. (play 50, get $25)

      I'm just curious as to how the other sites are playing.
      • I stated on PartyPoker, switched to Poker stars (which ... I have 7700 FPP) but have recently been playing on BetOnUsa.com strictly for the fact that I can buy in $20 instead of $50. I caan win consistantly at the small change tables and get my $20 to $50 pretty quickly. I'm trying to learn big table strategies and improve my game. There's a few bigger money tournies going on around here ($30 charity game, winner's get prizes from cancun trip to HD plasma TV) and a $200 invite, winner take all tourny (20
        • I had a period of time where I was getting bad beat after bad beat after bad beat. I mainly play the 5+.50 sitngo tourneys, and that's how I've moved it up to ~$150. I haven't made the leap beyond the .10-.25 nl tables yet because I don't have the bankroll to play like I want to.

          I figure scared money doesn't play the same.

          I have noticed that I lose patience when I'm playing for extended periods of time and not doing well. So I try to stay the hell away when I start running bad.

          I figure doubling my ini
          • Depends. I am definitely more of a read and recognize. If I'm playing a very loose player, then, I play my hands stronger than they are. I'm I'm playing a super tight player, I get more aggressive.

            I've been trying to tell all my friends, "Yes, you clean up on the freeroll/guest tables. EVERYONE does. Noone at those tables are any good or they'd be playing with real money. When you're using real money, the game changes comepletely." Same thing goes for small money tables to big money tables.

            Yeah, I
            • If you're any good at all and got some patience, you can finish in the money 4/5 times and slowly build your bank to hit the higher tables.

              One thing you might want to try that seems to be bringing me pretty good results lately:

              Don't play so damned much. I find I can concentrate really well for around 2 hours max and then that's it.

              So what I've been doing is playing a single sitngo to it's conclusion and then stopping for the evening. So far that's been the best thing I've done...so I don't expect my b
  • But C is closer than the others for me. Phear my geekness.
  • i'm going to have to go with Delta... in that C is, um... well its just C.

    i really don't know how to play poker. i mean... i have a vague notion of the rules... but all the stuff that goes along with it? Naw... i'll stick to pitch or Uno :D

  • Though I still consider myself a beginner, I've only played in a grand total of 3 home games. I've come away with other's cash each time. Hopefully my beginner's luck won't rub off anytime soon (or that I'll continue to play in such a sporatic manner that I am difficult to read when I bluff :)
  • Though I did a couple of years ago, back when Rounders came out. I live near Atlantic City, so I would go down once in a while to play. This was before the online casinos had made a name for themselves, or at least had any kind of decent reputation, so I never looked into it. But my interest tailed off because I realized even after reading three or four poker books that I'm just not that good.

    About two years ago when poker starting getting big on ESPN I kicked around the idea of internet poker and checked

  • A) (Score:2)

    by btlzu2 ( 99039 ) *
    I know how to play it, but it doesn't thrill me much. It's no more "for lamers" than is playing chess or paintball or whatever you like to do. Is all good brutha. ;) (that was for Bethanie specifically)
    • Yo yo yo. Bust a move, homey.

      ....Bethanie....

      • Re:A) (Score:2)

        by btlzu2 ( 99039 ) *
        Why you trippin' boo? Brace yoself, you be speakin all shizzle like you from da 80's and sheeeeit.

        Bust a move?!!!?!? Dat's whack you cracka ho, ya dig? ;)
  • in the arse!
  • Howdja know I called it my "Happy sock?" Thats uncanny.
  • Poker's so 1995. We were the realness before even Rounders. We were the few in the movie theater who knew what the hell was going on in the movie. Steve who Shot Himself works in that charity poker place with his brother (who was a semi-pro for a while).

    Got shit back in the day from folks. And when all the posers drop off, we'll be back. Never had the fever. I play competitively with my get of friends. But I have no big love for it.
    • heh, don't make me go all "fall into the Gap" on your ass. ;)

      Now, if you want old school, I can give you old school.

      I do have to admit before 2002 I had never heard of Texas Hold Em. However, I've been playing draw and 7 stud etc for years. Wow...like 2 decades actually.

      Sounds cool when you do it that way.
  • I went to best buy with my father about a month ago to pick up Dawn of War and Evil genius, and he says "Yeah, I've got a game I want to pick up too". Him being a Hardcore gamer of the oldest fashion (He's beaten every ID game up to Quake 3 on the Superhard mode), I expected Doom 3 or the latest Civ expansion. Then I find him holding a copy of "Hoyle Card Games". I almost died of shame.

  • no (Score:1)

    by subgeek ( 263292 ) *
    i play with family once in a great while, just as i have my whole life. i wouldn't last 3 hands in a real game, and that doesn't bother me at all. i have no desire to play for money.
  • used to play all the time. Haven't in a bit, but I'm planning on getting back into it. Tunica is cool. If you go, be sure and get one of their little cards and give it to the pit boss when you play at a table. After you've been there a couple days, ask him to comp you. He'll usually give you a free buffet or something.

  • Beee (Score:1)

    by N473 ( 183700 ) *
    yup. my MIS department has a regular texas holdem game. very fun shit... never thought to play online, will have to check into that :-)
  • D) I'm not keen on it, but then I've only played it casually and my "luck" at getting cards I need is lousy. I'm much better at gin and rummy and variants when it comes to planning for cards I might get, can't get, want to get, etc.
  • Never got into poker in any big way. Our family plays cards every time more than four of us get together. Sometimes we play 7-card stud, but mostly we play other card games - euchre seeming to be the game of choice in recent times.

    As for serious gambling, blackjack is my thang. I kind of went semi-pro afew years back - won a couple of tournaments and nailed the card-counting biz. Problem is there is a distinct lack of casinos around here (only one in Melbourne) so longevity as a counter is not very likely.

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