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Geek Culture / TGC Official Poker Thread 2006

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bob marley
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Hey people, just thought it was time for another poker thread

I know a lot of people here are poker players, so i hope this thread is allowable.

Here is a quick questionair on what type of player you are...

1. Do you play online poker, live poker or both?
2. Do you play for money or for fun?
3. What stakes?
4. What type of poker?
5. Got a bad beat story?
6. A good beat one?
7. Best hand/pot/game.
8. Worst hand/pot/game.
9. Are you up or down on profit? (dont lie )


Here is mine:
1. Both, online more.
2. Money, (gotta be done, lol)
3. uselly £0 - £10 a tourny
4. holdem mainly, i like omaha to.
5. ive got to many bad beat storys, but ill give one...
i got into a £30 multi table through a sattalite(thats a low buy in tourny where you win seats to bigger tournys), the prize pool was thousands, 27th got £80 and 1st was £1100, i did well and was on a double average stack with 30 players left, i was playing so tight i was folding A10 suited when people pushed all in, but then i get delt AA, and some high stack bully pushes all in, i wanted to fold, but couldnt, had to call, he has AQ off suit, and hits a flush with the one open suited card he had!, couldnty believe it
6. probibly when i floped a straight flush in a £0.50/£1 cash game with 3 people who hit ace high flush, two pair that became a full on the turn and some player with a K hi flush draw, took down a £112 pot
7. best game is when i placed 1st in a £6 - 360 people multi table, took about £800
8. see bad beat hand
9. on vcpoker i have deposited £150 and cashed out £1250
party poker im down by about £100, (dont use it no more)
and live games i think im up a £100 or so (though you cant keep track like u can online)

Thats about it,
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Van B
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Posted: 30th Nov 2006 16:56
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I like pokey, holdem especially, but online gambling is not for me, I prefer playing mates for £10-20 or so - it's just more fun when everyones drunk and someone doesn't care how much money they're loosing (usually me).

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Kentaree
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Posted: 30th Nov 2006 16:57
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This might be of interest to you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official

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SpyDaniel
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Posted: 30th Nov 2006 17:02
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I started placing bets a few days ago, and found it fun. I havent played poker, but I have played roulette. I deposited £3 and gained £7, then did two £5 bets and lost it all

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Fallout
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Posted: 30th Nov 2006 17:03 Edited at: 30th Nov 2006 17:04
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Same as Van here. It's not so much the gambling aspect that makes poker fun for me. It's having ya mates round and a few beers. The money aspect just adds some spice to it. We don't play with any sums of significance ... just enough for people to not want to lose it and give an "IN YOUR FACE!!!" when you win it.

Quote: "1. Do you play online poker, live poker or both?"

Just with mates in person. I've played online once or twice and didn't like it much.

Quote: "2. Do you play for money or for fun?"

Fun money. £2 when at uni and poor, £10 elsewhere.

Quote: "3. What stakes?"

We used to have bet limits but now we always play no limits.

Quote: "4. What type of poker?"

Hold'em

Quote: "5. Got a bad beat story?
6. A good beat one?
7. Best hand/pot/game.
8. Worst hand/pot/game."

Not really got an answer to any of those, as low money means nothing particularly stands out. I did once kill off someone with four 6s with four Jacks. That's proper stick in the knife twist it and laugh in their face.

Quote: "9. Are you up or down on profit? (dont lie )"

Marginally up. We'd buy in with a set amount, a few times I lost it all, a few times I'd be at 50% by the end of the game, but most of the time I had an extra 50%-100% of what I bought in with.

I'm the steady safe player, slowly building up my stash over a few hours.


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Cash Curtis II
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Posted: 30th Nov 2006 17:25 Edited at: 30th Nov 2006 17:30
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I don't play online, ever. Too many variables. I play face to face, Texas Hold'em. I won the pot last Saturday, $200. I never got a good hand, I just played my hands well.

One hand though, I folded before the flop. There were only 3 of us left and the blinds were pretty high. I had an 8 and a 3 in the hole. The flop had an 8. The turn and the river were both 8s. I wanted to puke. But, if I bet every hand, I'd have lost.

I can calculate the odds, I have a great poker face, and I have a consistent playing style. Plus, I can almost always tell what someone else has. If I played online, the only thing that I could do is calculate the odds, which any bum can do with Google.


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Mnemonix
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Has anybody got a bad beat story we haven't heard.

I used to play quite a bit, but i`m out of practice. Need to get in some practice and become better than I was if I want to enter some bigger tournaments next year.

1. I play live poker for money, online for practice
2. Both
3. A long tournament with between £5 and £20 buy in is good fun
4. NL Holdem
5. I have lots of bad beat stories. None you haven't heard though.
6. See 5
7. I don't remember the good hands as much as the bad ones.
8. 2 queens were out on the board and I had pocket rockets. I poured most of my chips into this hand heads up. My bluff was called and my opponent threw down 2 ladies.

9. I think i`m just about even, although im probably not

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Peter H
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1. Do you play online poker, live poker or both? only live
2. Do you play for money or for fun? fun!....... or cookies
3. What stakes? depends, usually plastic chips, but could be m&ms... maybe...
4. What type of poker? Texas Hold 'em, 5 card stud, etc
5. Got a bad beat story? no comprendo, i never lose
6. A good beat one? uuuhhh... not that i remember
7. Best hand/pot/game. well i was delt a full house once if that counts? actually i don't tend to get really good hands, just lots of decent ones.
8. Worst hand/pot/game. no idea
9. Are you up or down on profit? no idea

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Posted: 30th Nov 2006 21:48
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if you play online, what site would you recommend?
has anyone used holdempoker.com?



Its 9/11 - but its FAKE 9/11 Ts=SQRT(Df/16)
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bob marley
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Posted: 30th Nov 2006 23:00
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Quote: "if you play online, what site would you recommend?
has anyone used holdempoker.com?
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my favourite at the minute is www.vcpoker.com (www.vcstudentpoker.com), www.pacificpoker.com is good aswell.

i dont trust partypoker, and there crap and expensive aswell.
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Cash Curtis II
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Posted: 30th Nov 2006 23:13
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If you're playing online, the only thing you can really practice is calculating the odds of any given set of hole cards and the cards on the table. I don't trust online games, even if you're not paying, because their only goal is to get you to pay money. As such, they could rig the hands to be hyper-winning.

I bought a game called Poker Superstars. No free games pleased me at all. I think that the value of playing any free online game is matched, but there is no chance of crap hands or odds.


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Van B
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I heard about one guy who was up like £60,000 - then blew it all over a weekend trying to make more. I don't trust them either, I mean this ruined the guys life, he and his gf were planning on starting a business with the money, then he went and blew it all - disapeared down south with the shame of it, poor guy.

I'd be very surprised if the CPU didn't cheat, so I'd say if your gonna play, go play the preset games against humans only - like you pay to enter a big tournament with a decent chunk of cash as the prize, I think that's the only sensible route. I think a lot of people distrust computerised gambling - as opposed to betting on football, or horses, unfortunately the people who seem to come off worst through gambling get hooked on machines, rather than betting shops. Fruit machines are really the worst thing ever - players always know the machines inside and out, yet they never have money, strange one that.

My dad plays quite a bit, but he plays 2 hands at once, using his laptop alongside the PC - good job my mom won't let him spend much real money .

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I don't understand why you think the CPU would cheat. Casino games are designed in such a way that the odds favour the house--- always. The programmer doesn't have to add trickery to blackjack, slots, etc. And with online poker, the site makes a bit of commission from the winnings, so it doesn't care who wins.

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Mnemonix
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The way casinos make money is that the payouts are never as much as the odds say they should be.

A very simple example is the national lottery where you win a £10 for your £1 stake for matching 3 numbers, yet the odds are somewhere in the region of 26 to 1.

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bob marley
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Just posting that after the most ridiculouse, depressing, vital, bad beat hand ever (that i posted a thread about but doubt it will get through) at the must unbelivable time happened to me after a run of bad luck on vcpoker, im switching to partypoker, i am leaving vc nicly up on profit, so its all good i guess.
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