Any poker players up in here-

Nice to see this thread get bumped!

Ive been playing a bit more on Pokerstars lately just because i havent been able to make it Atlantic City in a while. Nothing too big just 1/2 NL games. Been running pretty good as of late. Ive also been trying to work on my PLO game just to switch it up a bit. I like it because its more of a drawing game and there are a lot of crappy players who think that their top pair is good.

I have been interested in getting into online poker lately. As a hobby of course. It has been running through my head as a nice way to pick up come extra cash for anything and what not... But in order to pick up some extra cash, I need some extra cash first, and I dont

i won 5 bucks from my grandma once... im pretty much pro

Originally posted by barnyard I was big into online playing for a while, but I got bored of it when it became huge.

There are so many good players online these days, makes it a lot harder to make money than it used to be. However, i do like the fact that i have endless multi table tournaments just a few clicks away with giant prize pools.

Anyone here play Razz? To simply sum it up, worst 5 card hand wins. Ive been playing a little bit online and my brain is going to explode! Its so hard to condition yourself to draw to the worst hand once you've been playing traditional poker games for a long time.

yeah I've played Razz for awhile.. good place to make some money..

Been getting a decent amount of hours in at the limit and no limit hold em tables the last few days. Spent about 6 hours playing today while nursing a wicked hangover and ended the day up ~$400.

I like playing live poker.  Nothing better then being able to watch the other players.  Usually play Texas but I've been playing a lot of Omaha lately.

It's an awesome game. You get to know people's personalities pretty quickly so good when travelling!

I love to play.  I think two of the best tells are when someone looks at your chips and then bets...most of the time they want you to call.

not very into the online playing... it's a great game for hanging out with ur friends and buddies!

Had a tough time at the tables last night. Played 3 sit n gos, $50+5, and didnt cash in any of them. 2 losses were my fault, i overplayed jacks against a tight player. The 3rd tourney i took a bad beat, flopped second nuts and he flopped the nuts. Ah well.

Originally posted by richardvoyageur Originally posted by CheckOnTrips Had a tough time at the tables last night. Played 3 sit n gos, $50+5, and didnt cash in any of them. 2 losses were my fault, i overplayed jacks against a tight player. The 3rd tourney i took a bad beat, flopped second nuts and he flopped the nuts. Ah well. Bad beat for sure, you're bound to lose money on that last hand, most of the time it will be all of it.   I find whenever I played online I had to be really tight all the time due to the crazies online.  I always found there were way too many loose players that you had to watch out for, way overplaying hands.  It sucks to wait for good cards but you can really make them pay online when you do.

Yea i was willing to get all my money in on the flop, nothing i could do there. It happens.

There are a lot of loose players online, but live poker is that way too these days. The game has changed quite a bit over the last 10 years.

hmm.. maybe deposit a few hundred... hmmm

My friends play every Friday night and the family plays poker at almost every family gathering. I only play on occation because some people take stuff too seriosly and make it not fun anymore.

I usually play Texas Hold'em at friends' houses or facebook.  Casino's from time to time but I avoid playing there on weekdays since that's when the "professionals" play there.

Originally posted by azn_dan heh, with all this talk about online poker, it's giving me an itch to try online again, though i never believed all the bs i was witnessing.

I trust the major sites such as Pokerstars and Full Tilt, but i wouldnt deposit at any of the smaller sites. Your money is safe with the big guys though. Sure they are all off shore and unregulated by the US government, but gambling is fun!

People tend to think thats its somehow rigged but thats purely a result of seeing soooo many hands compared to live poker. Its going to seem like there are more bad beats because you are seeing 10x as many hands. Bad, lemme rephrase that, terrible beats happen in live games too!

Im weary of the cash games though, its very easy for collusion to occur between other players. If i sense that anything fishy is going on ill leave the table immediately. Thats why i prefer the multi table tournaments since people dont have a choice of which table they sit at.

Well this last weekend I played in a Full Tilt OSP Mini (Online Series of Poker Mini) tournament. There was over 15,000 players and I believe a guaranteed prize pool of $350K. Super Stack (5000 starting chips) for $24+2.

I placed 186th I believe earning $208 dollars which was very anticlimactic considering i had a high of 480,000 chips when I went out and was set to make it to top 20 which minimum prize at that point was $1900. 1st place would of netted me $45,000 and I had the chips to do it but, an unfortunate hand against an opponent with 1.8 million chips took me out. Aces and dueces on the flop doesn't beat aces and 9's on the flop, 2 pair over 2 pair and I was done.

I quit playing online.  I feel like it is rigged especially in single table games where people know each other.  I always seem to fare better in live games.

Great night for me at the tables! I won ~$400 at PL Omaha and also ~$250 at the NL hold em tables, lotta fish out tonight!

Yup, I found that out while channel surfing last night. I tivoed both episodes and watched them today. I'll be doing the same the rest of the way.

in the process of resharpening my online poker skillz... much prefer online to live play mostly because you don't have to see/smell the degenerates at the casinos + playing in your underwear is far more comfortable :)

I started at home games and moved up to smaller casinos around my way. I am strictly a tourney player or SNG, never liked cash much. I now play online, mainly $12 6-handed SNG's and I am up about $2000 over the course of a year. I hope to eventually play in an WSOP event soon! Has anyone entered, and been successful?

I love tournament poker without re-buys, but hate cash games.  

Originally posted by Vengleelim I started at home games and moved up to smaller casinos around my way. I am strictly a tourney player or SNG, never liked cash much. I now play online, mainly $12 6-handed SNG's and I am up about $2000 over the course of a year. I hope to eventually play in an WSOP event soon! Has anyone entered, and been successful?

my brother has qualified 3 times only cashed on his first attempt. its a real endurance event don't think I could do that many days in a row of playing poker for 18 hours. I'm a SNG/ tourney player too I do 18plyr $27/$38 used to play $55 45 player turbos but those became unprofitable at some point