hihoslva

Just wondering - it's something I enjoy. Rarely for real money online, though I used to play with friends several times a week, and we're trying to start the game up again. And I will dump $50 or $100 into an online account once in while, but usually play dumb or get greedy and lose it eventually.

Anyway, I generally play at www.pokerroom.com, and lately I've been hitting the Pot Limit Texas Hold'em tables (hell yeah!) at www.thepokerclub.com (software download) pretty hard.

Anyway - any poker fans should check those out. I'm "Protege5" at pokerroom, and "hihoslva" on thepokerclub.

Maybe I'll see some of you there....

Oh - and for anyone who doesn't know about Texas Hold'em, go rent "Rounders", with Matt Damon, Edward Norton, and John Malkovich - AWESOME movie (even if you don't really care for poker), and one of the best poker movies ever.

~HH

funkdaddysmack

I play nickel dime stuff with some guys from work. I'm not very good at it, but it's fun none the less. We play a lot of the Guts games (1 card, 2 card, 3 card), follow the queen, oh ****, and a few others. It's a good time. I don't play online, because I'd rather lose my money to people I know, hehe...

hihoslva

I find that online IS a lot of fun, even for fake money (99% of what I play).

Plus, you gain valuable experience for those "nickel and dime" games .

~HH

jeremy

ROUNDERS.......... was a bad *** movie.....

who didn't pick up a deck of cards when the credits started rolling?


i don't play much...like they said though.."nickel and dime stuff"

i'll check the site out and see whats up...

I PLAY ALOT OF "UP AND DOWN THE RIVER" THOUGH.....that game is the ****...anyone know it..if not....i'll let you know...if your at a party--or hosting....this will start it...

later

Rwt1

Myself and a bunch of guys from college paid our way through school off the profits from the Hold 'Em tables at Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun..plus numerous home games (Pot limit mostly) Probably seen Rounders over 100 times. Two of my friends graduated and now play hold em professionally...they are in Cali right now.

Played 5/10/kill and dabbled in 10/20 (although that is one nasty close knit group) at Foxwoods and usually 3/6/kill at Mohegan (when it ran)

I'm "Retired" (lol) now...work too much and my skills got too rusty over the past year or so. In case you're wondering and you didn't take it out of the end of Rounders...don't let people tell you good luck on your way out to play...cause the moment you think it's luck is the moment you will lose. The only way to win is to play and read play and read...I like Sklansky's (SP) methods...try to look him up, just don't use my busted *** spelling.

Dermen

I have seen Rounders at least 20 times. That movie is badass.

hihoslva

Whoa, Ryan - remind me not to sit at YOUR hold'em table....

I wouldn't claim to be a great player by any means - but I have fun, and know enough to do okay. The thing I have learned about poker, and pot limit games especially, is that patience is your best friend. It's hysterical to me when people stick in with some off-suit bullshit in hold'em. If you are "in" on most of the hands, you're "in" WAY too much.

And that's what I like about poker - it's NOT a luck game. It has everything to do with skill, and psychology too. Hold'em is a fantastic game for knowing where you stand in any one hand - you can know 100% if you have the high hand (unlike say 7-stud, where you just never frigging know what's in the hole).

I've played a bit of casino poker - only 7 card though - before I really started enjoying hold'em. I took $300 in just a couple hours at Mohegan a few years back, on a $1 to $5, 7 card table - I was damn happy with that. I was in Vegas recently, and was disappointed to learn that poker is hard to come by - it just doesn't make enough money for the casino. But we always have the Indian ones, and Atlantic City on the east coast.

If any of you guys decide to join and play at either of those sites, be sure to let me know your usernames - maybe we can hook up and play a bit.

~HH

PS - Hanging around, hanging around - kid's got alligator blood. Gotta love that goddamn movie.

hihoslva

Glad to see some playa's here. Fun stuff.

I got sick of nickel/dime games with friends. We'd attract people not paying attention, calling any hand, overall just not making the game fun. I think that - in order to make the game fun and competitive - you need to play for stakes that force people into really watching what they are doing and thinking about their moves. So when we'd play, we'd generally go quarter/fifty cent/dollar, with a $5 max bet/raise. Otherwise, you might as well just all throw your money in a pile and cut cards for it...

Still not expensive, but it made you watch what you were doing. Otherwise, losing $60 or $100 in a night was very easy to do.

~HH

Rwt1

Yeah but those nickel and dime games teach you some good lessons. Thats how I started and the first thing you learn is that if you are going to win at low limit you need to have the cards, cause moves don't work against someone who only needs to call a buck to see your hand. Thats why I found when I moved down to play so called "poor" players, the worse I did.

As for playing too many hands...when you're on the computer you can sit there and only play AA AK AQ AJ(**** hand) KK QQ KQ KJ(****) and other large pair/connects depending on your position and do quite well because nobody is playing attention to you. Pull that at a table and people catch on and play you like a rock. Gotta mix in the 33 and 78s and win a hand or two with those cards just to screw with people's heads. People will tell you folding 90% of your hands before the flop isn't a bad thing...but I'll tell you what...go watch a 10/20..20/40..30/60 game...nobody is playing 10% of their hands...it's more like 30-40%...its all in the moves.

(I am rambling) As for tourney's...you gotta single out those who have at least less than half of your chips because they are least likely to call you in fear of going out...if they do the probability of them having a legit hand increases tenfold. I remember about two years ago at Foxwoods a tourney with about 125 people I forget the payout I think it was one of those Sat morning ones...I was chip leader (by waaaaaay far) at the last two tables and I ended up being like 15th because I went conservative and let people chip away. You gotta pick hands and attack with them in trourney's

Sorry for the ramble...I love poker and I love talking and teaching it...good luck online and stay away from Paradise...it's not legit.

Doomer_MP3

I began playing more last year at my friend's apartment with 3 or 4 others. It was fun (mainly nickel, dime, quarter), and also a great excuse to get drunk. The night usually ended with somebody slamming the table upside down (after we took our profits of course) and heading out to the bars . Gotta get back into this. Thanks for reminding me.

Chris