Did you raise with AK?
of course. i raised after flop too.
Yeah Iâm playing basically for a living now. The reason I can do this is because I have very low expenses. I live with roommates and other than school tuition I donât have any obligatory expenses. Poker works for me because my expenses can basically be covered just by the bonuses (playing 15 rooms in a month will generate the bonus money). The money I actually make playing is almost just a side benefit at this point.
It is hard to make a living playing poker, which is why I tried to discourage people from doing it in the blog post that I made and linked a page ago. It can be a pretty good 2nd job though, since there are easily $1000-$1500 in bonuses out there for the taking every month.
And yeah, evo is all about the tables for me. I might play some CvS2 if I have time. The plan is to get Doyle Brunson to sign my ass and Annie Duke to sign my vest. Thatâs hot.
âJay Snyder
Viscant@aol.com
haha i beat up brunson in a tournament earlier today
iâm sorry but iâm a n00b at online poker. iâm deciding to play ONline poker at partypoker. what are BONUSES? is it money that i CANâT LOSE? please explain. iâm looking to spend about $20âŚBTW iâm 19 years old
EDIT: how much do i deposit for Pacificpoker to get the free $10?
For the Pacific free $10, you donât have to put any money in, just open a real money account and leave it alone for awhile. Come back in a week or so and theyâll put money in for you. They just want you to get addicted. Cheap marketing ploy.
As for bonuses, hereâs a bonus that Party is offering right now.
http://www.partypoker.com/offers/deposit_25_150-bonusjun.htm
Like for example on this bonus, you can get up to 25% of your deposit in bonus money, up to $150. So deposit $600 to get the max bonus money. Now you have to play 7x raked hands to get the $150, so thatâs 1050 hands. After you finish all 1050, they give you the $150 and you can cash it out right away.
Most bonuses are done this way. Some exceptions. Most notable one is the Pacific $100 deposit bonus for $400 deposited is given to you instantly. So you can deposit $400, cash that out, then once the cashout clears you have $100 to play around with. You have to wager 20x (so $2000) before you can cash out the $100, but it at least gives you something decent to start out with if you donât want to risk any real money of your own.
Hope that helps, if any questions you know what to do.
âJay Snyder
Viscant@aol.com
just play poker on friday night, startign to get better, and loving it when u win some money and start pressuring others by raising 4x the check money
Unless youâre really good or really NOT GOOD in poker, donât try it.
Iâll explain what I mean. If youâre really good, naturally you can take advantage of the fish and other inexperienced players in the field, taking advantage of knowing the odds to easily win in the long run. They can outflop and river you all day, but if you make the right decisions, you will always wind up positive.
Now about being really NOT GOOD, thatâs just another way of me saying you have no ego. Realize youâre not good, and you wonât have the desire to move up too fast in limits, and go on tilt cause of âworseâ players. If you have a ego, and think youâre the shit in poker, have fun losing your bankroll. Iâm not afraid to admit that I was one of those people a while back. I started playing last year, got real good in live poker in college and won a couple grand for the semester, and started online poker cause 2-3 hours a night wasnât enough for me. I lost quite a bit on Ultimatebet from going on tilt from worse players before I quit and just accepted I was bad at online poker. The things you have to realize:
*If you have no experience in poker, donât bother trying No Limit.
*Playing within your limit entails having a bankroll of AT LEAST 200 Big Bets to be safe, and thats if youâre good. If youâre just starting out, chances are you suck and donât have much experience, so 400 Big Bets is safer. So that pretty much limits you to penny tables unless you deposit 200-400 at once, which most people do not do on their first time.
*You canât bitch about bad beats and console yourself. They will not cause you to lose money in the longrun; your bad beats along with your bad decisions cause you to lose money.
*AA does not BEAT JJ/QQ/KK/22 preflop. It loses one out of four times. (addendum to above heh)
*YOU MUST READ BOOKS AND ARTICLES IF YOU WANT TO WIN
Those are just warnings to anybody that wants to try. Now for the good newsâŚever since I got out of college and focused much more online since no live games are around anymore I turned 50 bucks into 600 or so in a few weeks :). I think Iâve gotten the hang of it now, and play much more mechanically, but itâs rough mentally. If you still wanna get into it, feel free to PM me for advice on lower limits and building your bankroll up to a decent size.
eh pokerâs fun. but the scene is kind of changing. everyoneâs trying to be a good play reading all the books and magazines and articles nowadays. so your regular newbie now is one to your trips if the board has paired on the flop, thus heâll check it to you on the turn.
anyways, poker is fun and challenging when youâre playing against people whoâre paying attention to the game and it becomes more of a mental game, cause the cards donât matter as much at that point.
After a year or two when people who play poker know all the facts, its gonna be pretty boring. Cards WILL matter more when people get better. And online, its all about the cards.
:u: itâs good to see ho cho posting in GD
thanks Viscant
Time to bump this.
Just wondering if anyone just saw World Poker Tour tonight? Some guy almost player every starting hand at the final table, good and bad, and managed to knock out everyone in a row.
Watching all those bad beats remind me of this guy:
i have a poker tournament in 3 hoursâŚanybody have tips in winning a No-Limit Holdem TOURNAMENT?
i got jew by triple 5 yesterday on the fuckin flopâŚso gay
Ucrollerblader seyz-
For the first hour of the tournament, donât play anything but jj/qq/kk/aa and ak. Always raise with them preflop to about 4-5 times the size of the big blind. After you get that far you can play normally and it should be cakey
***** Hand History for Game 2260181649 *****
devodj finished in eighth place.
thecake73 finished in seventh place.
50/100 TourneyTexasHTGameTable (NL) (Tournament 13389363) - Sat Jun 25 06:49:17 EDT 2005
Table Table 35270 (Real Money) â Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: buddah7 (3295)
Seat 2: todox (365)
Seat 3: osagat (2385)
Seat 4: bcgirls (200)
Seat 6: survjim11 (1235)
Seat 7: Laelia (520)
osagat posts small blind (25)
bcgirls posts big blind (50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to osagat [ Th, 8c ]
survjim11 calls (50)
Laelia folds.
buddah7 raises (100) to 100
todox calls (100)
osagat folds.
bcgirls calls (50)
survjim11 calls (50)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 4s, 4d, 4c ]
bcgirls bets (100)
bcgirls is all-In.
survjim11 calls (100)
buddah7 raises (300) to 300
todox calls (265)
todox is all-In.
survjim11 calls (200)
Creating Main Pot with $825 with bcgirls
Creating Side Pot 1 with $495 with todox
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 5h ]
survjim11 checks.
buddah7 bets (650)
survjim11 raises (835) to 835
survjim11 is all-In.
buddah7 calls (185)
** Dealing River ** : [ 5c ]
Creating Side Pot 2 with $1740 with survjim11
** Summary **
Main Pot: 825 | Side Pot 1: 495 | Side Pot 2: 1740 |
Board: [ 4s 4d 4c 5h 5c ]
buddah7 balance 5120, bet 1235, collected 3060, net +1825 [ 5d 5s ] [ four of a kind, fives â 5d,5s,5h,5c,4s ]
todox balance 0, lost 365 [ Kd Qc ] [ a full house, Fours full of fives â 5h,5c,4s,4d,4c ]
osagat balance 2360, lost 25 (folded)
bcgirls balance 0, lost 200 [ Ad 9d ] [ a full house, Fours full of fives â 5h,5c,4s,4d,4c ]
survjim11 balance 0, lost 1235 [ Ah 4h ] [ four of a kind, fours â Ah,4h,4s,4d,4c ]
Laelia balance 520, didnât bet (folded)
EDIT: After showing this hand to LB, instead of commenting on the unlikelihood of running 5âs, he says âwow those idiots called with k/q and a/9â
wow what idiots for calling with those handsâŚ
anyway, i got 5th place out of 30. the whole time i was playing with cards that add up to 20 (10+) and i did pretty good. i won pots with Aces, kings, and JacksâŚbut the whole entire time, i was beatâŚraisingâŚre-raisingâŚi knew they were gonna do that, but i was hoping they were gonnd do that again so i could bust them. i did that a couple timesâŚworked out like a charm.
then the blinds start raising and tables are coming together now. the blinds go up. iâve been getting crappy hands and my stack went down little by little. sadly i tried bluffing, but i bluffed at the wrong timeâŚi had Q J and the flop comes down 9 8 3. 2 people checked, i went all in and 1 guy calledâŚhe had 9 3. (BTW, I RAISED 3 bets from the blinds and he fucking called it) FUCK! anywaysâŚi guess what i learned was i shouldâve been more patient and looked at another handâŚ
Tips: DO NOT GO ALL IN UNLESS U HAVE SOMETHING
Ok since you guys donât seem to understandâŚ
somone flopped quad 4âs
turn 5
river 5
quad 4âs get beat by quad 5âs