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Do you know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em
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Ninja Scooter
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you know what you've just done? Get ready for Michael Madsen pics.
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
Play it whenever I can. My brother runs an AmVets so every Sunday I dont play basketball I go donate my 10 or 20 bucks to some vets retirement fund. last time I played there were 12 of us and they paid top 3.....i got 4th. Also have a couple of diffrent sets of friends I play with. One set is easy money the other isnt.
keeblerdrow
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Texas Hold Em. What the fuck. Seems like every college student on the goddamn earth is playing this every fucking chance they get. What ever happened to good ol' fashioned drunken sex?
hooded pitohui
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Hold 'Em is good, but I'm partial to Baseball and Guts/Bloody Guts. More fun and higher stakes, if you're crazy like that.
Yeah, I had shitty luck at Turning Stone blackjack as well. I went there on a business trip -- it's actually the nicest hotel in the vicinity of Air Force Research Labs, Rome, NY, believe it or not. A co-worker and I, while stuck in a multi-hour weather delay at O'Hare, ended up arguing about whether or not you should hit on hard 16 versus dealer 7 in multi-deck basic strategy. (You're always supposed to hit, even though it sucks, by the way.) Anyway, we decided to settle this by having a "who can come back with more money" competition when we got to the casino.Raw64life said:
Well, bad times. Not only is it a dry casino, it was $10 minimum at every table. I went down about $300 in the first half-hour, and spent the rest of my stay trying to get back even. I eventually got to -$150, but I'm still bitter. However, at the very least, I can say that I trumped my co-worker SOUNDLY.
hehe, texas hold'em rocks. lately, my friends and i have been bar-hopping across the city as each night, a different party holds hold'em tournaments with cash-in being the price of just showing up. since gambling is illegal in the state of texas, the winner is rewarded points and the person with the most after 16 rounds sent to las vegas to play more poker.
it's really quite fun. get to meet a lot of people and the location of the tournaments are held at each bar's designated "drink special" night so the alcohol is generally inexpensive.
i've won twice so far...
it's really quite fun. get to meet a lot of people and the location of the tournaments are held at each bar's designated "drink special" night so the alcohol is generally inexpensive.
i've won twice so far...
I've been playing the Xbox poker game a bunch lately but I had been interested in the game since it started to take off (nationwide television) this last summer. Just this night I taught a few foreign born players how to play no limit holdem using pennies as chips. They wouldn't let me leave for the longest time, it's so addicting.
ALL IN!
ALL IN!
Well just got back from my bud's house where we played a few no-limit tourneys while the playoffs were on. Fit 3 in, only hit cards once all night really haha, but hey, c'est la vie. It's still cheaper than going out most of the time We only do it every other weekend.
Used to play in a home game that did tons of wild card-match pot games. Even though it was nickel-dime-quarter, we still had pots go up to $250. Those games SUCKED.
We only do it every other weekend.Used to play in a home game that did tons of wild card-match pot games. Even though it was nickel-dime-quarter, we still had pots go up to $250. Those games SUCKED.
CajoleJuice
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My friends and I used to play small 5 dollar games with about 4-8 people during the weekend beginning a little over a year ago. Over the summer, we played about 3 times a week. If we couldn't find anywhere to drink, we'd just play poker. Once I've gone to college, I haven't played much at all.
IAmtheFMan
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I used to work at a gift store that sold poker chips in addition to a great number of other things; the first 2 years I worked there, every once in a while, someone would walk in, look at the clay chips and go "what? 95 dollars for chips? Screw that." and buy the plastic ones.
The last year, suddenly they were hot items; we couldn't keep them in stock. It got kinda annoying because all of a sudden, it was on TV and people thought that because they watched a tournament on ESPN and understood what was going on, that they could play great, and with a week or two, become the greatest poker players in the world.
One group of my friends play a lot. A whole lot. I enjoy playing a little bit every once in a while, but I usually lose interest in about an hour if its a "let's play like mini-professional" Hold'em game. When I play with another group of friends, we vary it up quite a bit so that we can have, you know, FUN playing the game, (draw games, Guts, Cincy Slut, wild cards, etc.) whereas the other group takes the game too damn seriously. I once made the analogy (half jokingly) that Hold 'Em is the intellectual equivalent of playing "Clue." They didn't like that.
The last year, suddenly they were hot items; we couldn't keep them in stock. It got kinda annoying because all of a sudden, it was on TV and people thought that because they watched a tournament on ESPN and understood what was going on, that they could play great, and with a week or two, become the greatest poker players in the world.
One group of my friends play a lot. A whole lot. I enjoy playing a little bit every once in a while, but I usually lose interest in about an hour if its a "let's play like mini-professional" Hold'em game. When I play with another group of friends, we vary it up quite a bit so that we can have, you know, FUN playing the game, (draw games, Guts, Cincy Slut, wild cards, etc.) whereas the other group takes the game too damn seriously. I once made the analogy (half jokingly) that Hold 'Em is the intellectual equivalent of playing "Clue." They didn't like that.
I suck at poker. I did win $300 in Blackjack at Harrahs during Mardi Gras last year though. That was on the $5 tables. Next time I'll probably play on the $25 tables since I love to double-down. Poker OTOH is an anomaly to me. I don't really know all the rules that well, and I have no poker face. I was really wasted when I played it last, and I lost $80 in like 12 minutes. I showed my cards early and just generally got it all wrong. Some things like chess and poker I'm just worthless at. PEACE.
I cant play poker for shit. But give me blackjack and i'm a god. I had to stop playing people i knew cause each time they would try to kick my ass. The would get theirs handed to them in a little doggy bag. I played mean, rough. And in the end i only probably made 100 bucks in my young ears of playing blackjack.
I'm gonna learn poker one of these days, just dont have the time for it now.
I'm gonna learn poker one of these days, just dont have the time for it now.
Shinobi said:This just wouldn't be a poker thread without a little Shana Hiatt...
Better believe I'd Texas hold 'em.
I'd lay down those cards.
I'd jump in that river.
She'd get my straight flush.
Etc, etc, etc...
This also wouldn't be a poker thread without 'The Gambler' by Kenny Rogers:
On a warm summers evenin on a train bound for nowhere,
I met up with the gambler; we were both too tired to sleep.
So we took turns a starin out the window at the darkness
til boredom overtook us, and he began to speak.
He said, son, Ive made a life out of readin peoples faces,
And knowin what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.
So if you dont mind my sayin, I can see youre out of aces.
For a taste of your whiskey Ill give you some advice.
So I handed him my bottle and he drank down my last swallow.
Then he bummed a cigarette and asked me for a light.
And the night got deathly quiet, and his face lost all expression.
Said, if youre gonna play the game, boy, ya gotta learn to play it right.
You got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count your money when youre sittin at the table.
Therell be time enough for countin when the dealins done.
Now evry gambler knows that the secret to survivin
Is knowin what to throw away and knowing what to keep.
cause evry hands a winner and evry hands a loser,
And the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep.
So when hed finished speakin, he turned back towards the window,
Crushed out his cigarette and faded off to sleep.
And somewhere in the darkness the gambler, he broke even.
But in his final words I found an ace that I could keep.
You got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count your money when youre sittin at the table.
Therell be time enough for countin when the dealins done.
You got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count you r money when youre sittin at the table.
Therell be time enough for countin when the dealins done.
Tell you what: In lieu of me telling you to fuck off and making an example out of you, how about you explain why your ONLY contribution to this thread -- which had some actual discussion about poker, by the way -- was to post pictures of some poker hostess? I've already expressed my frustration and disapproval at the near-constant string of threads and posts containing scantily-clad women, and other mods/admins have said pretty much the same thing.Shinobi said:
She's not even a poker PLAYER, for crying out loud. She's a fish all the way.
:lol In lieu of telling you to fuck yourself, I'll give my reason.
I made that contribution because I have no poker stories to tell. I haven't played the game in months. I watch it on TV every so often, but that's it. That doesn't make for a particularly interesting post. I figured showing a few pics of Shana Hiatt (a woman who I think is simply gorgeous, yet is one I always forget about in those hottie women threads), someone who is probably the main face of the World Poker Tour, was worth throwing into the thread, if for no other reason then making my post unique. That you responded in such a fashion is pretty mystifying to be honest...obviously you're not in one of your better moods.
So since I've answered your question, could you answer mine? Why are you so fucking pissy? Has your anger towards me been a slow burn over the last couple years? Is it because I was third in the most popular GAF posters category (a distant third mind you, but still)? Is it because you're a Stoke City fan and my Gunners just knocked 'em out of the FA Cup (though barely)? I usually don't piss people off this much, so I'd like to know what I've done so I can do it again.
I made that contribution because I have no poker stories to tell. I haven't played the game in months. I watch it on TV every so often, but that's it. That doesn't make for a particularly interesting post. I figured showing a few pics of Shana Hiatt (a woman who I think is simply gorgeous, yet is one I always forget about in those hottie women threads), someone who is probably the main face of the World Poker Tour, was worth throwing into the thread, if for no other reason then making my post unique. That you responded in such a fashion is pretty mystifying to be honest...obviously you're not in one of your better moods.
So since I've answered your question, could you answer mine? Why are you so fucking pissy? Has your anger towards me been a slow burn over the last couple years? Is it because I was third in the most popular GAF posters category (a distant third mind you, but still)? Is it because you're a Stoke City fan and my Gunners just knocked 'em out of the FA Cup (though barely)? I usually don't piss people off this much, so I'd like to know what I've done so I can do it again.
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