I'm addicted, and I'm not even very good. Which is a problem.
I play in the fake money games sometimes, but people play so recklessly that it doesn't really prepare you for real money games. So I put in a few bucks and, without fail, typically place 4th or 5th in a game where the top 3 pay out.
Where do you play for money? At home with friends or online? And which online site if you do it online. I've done pretty good playing with some friends for a few bucks.I'm addicted, and I'm not even very good. Which is a problem.
I play in the fake money games sometimes, but people play so recklessly that it doesn't really prepare you for real money games. So I put in a few bucks and, without fail, typically place 4th or 5th in a game where the top 3 pay out.
I play some with friends... That's where I make some of my money back from online.
I play at www.holdempoker.com, which is one of the only ones I've found that's Mac-friendly. Typically play Tournaments.
Is this an online thing? I ask, because without bringing your poker face, is it REALLY poker?
And I just don't get this Texas Hold'em. No appeal whatsover. I like 7-card stud.
Try cash games, Spurm. For "a few bucks", tournaments will offer the same wacky play that free poker will - at least that is how it seems to me.
You should come to a GTG when I'm in town, so I can get some of my money back.
Funny you should post a topic about this. A few friends of mine kept telling me that they were cleaning house online due to the poor level of play by most people. I decided to drop 20 bucks last week at PokerRoom.com because it was the only place that would take a deposit less than 50 bucks.
Got setup, played a few cash hands and turned my 20 into 40. Decided to make sure I did no worse than even, and cashed out 20 bucks. Proceeded to turn that 20 into 35 bucks, at which point I cashed out 25. Once again turned that 10 into 35, and repeated the procedure.
The gambling finally caught up to me and I lost the 10 bucks with a couple of unlucky rivers.
Well, come to find out this morning that they had given me 2 'tickets' to enter cash tournaments for free. Joined the first one and finished 25 out of 240 players and won 20 bucks. 20 bucks for free? I'm down.
Played a tournament this afternoon with a 2 dollar buy in, and fished 44 out of 976, earning another 20 dollar payout. I ed up though, I was in the top 5 with money and started playing really ing wreckless and ended up losing it so fast it hurt.
I cashed out 35 so I now have about 5 bucks online.
I have one more ticket for a 2 dollar tournament that starts in about an hour so hopefully I can turn that into something more to continue building on.
I'm not a big gambler, mainly because I'm too damn poor to risk larger amounts of money, but it has proven very entertaining so far and quite profitable.
Manny,
How did you deposit money into that site, Netteller? I also wanted to try it, but didn't want to put $50. You only have to put 10 here, but not sure how to work it. Is there any charges to deposit and cashout?
I settup a netteller account to withdraw and deposit into my Frost account. It works fairly easily. I had to call them the first time, but I haven't had any fees from either site.
Netteller seems to be very much like Paypal.
Cool thanks. Why did you have to call?
They wanted to confirm my bank info to prevent fraud. (or so I assume) They had me confirm my info.
I play live games once or twice a month, but I play at Party Poker.com a few times a week. I do not play in tournaments, just $2-$4 games.
It is addicting, I watch it on ESPN also.
I've tried out a couple of other sites since that post.
I first tried Pacific Poker because I was told the players there were very "soft". Well, they are but this tends to be more frustrating than profitable for me because of the bad beats. I'm got tired very quickly of losing on rivers to lower hands. Their software was also crap.
This evening I tried Noble Poker for the first time and I was pretty happy. The level of play isn't very good and I was able to clean up at a couple of tables which was good because I had gotten my ass kicked earlier in the night.
Overall playing online isn't turning out as profitable as it once was - I'm mainly breaking even. But it is very fun and entertaining, so it is all good.
I'm utterly addicted as well. But I only play live, online is so impersonal...
You may not be good at poker, but you have one sweet icon.
Manny, you never came to any of my games... you er
Dude, I was super poor then and I sucked. You were rolling with the high stakes. I was actually going to ask you if you ever did that anymore. I'd be down for some of the higher stakes games now that I'm more comfortable with the game.
Nah, I cut it out a while ago and don't have my client base anymore. It was good while it lasted though.
I'm doing pretty well on pacific and if anyone is interested in joining, if someone refers you, you will get a 25$ bonus, and the person who refers you will get a 50$ bonus
Screw Pacific and those es bent on calling on BS!
Try pokerstars... its 10x worse than that. But I like pacific.
http://bonus s.com/ If you have alot of free time and patience, and can play break even poker
I actually heard the compe ion was really good at PokerStars. I haven't ventured over there. Actually, I feel the majority fo the places I play at will be full of people who call on bull and get lucky every once in a while because I tend to play the lower table amounts. I'm going to have to move up to cash in.
Manny, what do you play? Limit or No Limit?? and what stakes?
No Limit usually. I'll play Pot Limit occasional, but never just Hold Em. I can't bet for with the structure of those games.
I usually play at .25-50 tables or .50 - 1 tables. But If I look and I see a high flop percentage on a table close to that but higher, I'll try it out for abit.
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