always have a job until u are good enough to rely on poker as a sole income. that means when u can afford to lose an amount, a big amount and it not have an effect you. i know we are poker loving bums, but trust me a job is the best thing for u.
never risk a significant amount of ur bankroll, unless the game is really gravy. even then it’s still risky if ur struggling b/c on any given day the best player can make the best decisions and still lose, lose alot.
if u play cash games or tournaments, start out small and work ur way up. no matter how good u are, there is pressure when u play for a lot of money. only once u master ur self, will u master the madness that is poker.
that’s the most important ones i know i’ve left something out viscant care to chime in?
i hit up the saturday morning no limit tournament at viejas about once a month. in my years of playing poker in san diego, i’ve never hit up ocean’s eleven. its my friend’s second home. i’m not a big cash player, i enjoy the tournament scene alot more.
I really dislike the tournament structures at sycuan and viejas. They have a very poor chip to blind increase ratio. It basically comes down sitting on your small stack then pushing in your chips in a on big draw or premium holding preflop hoping to get lucky early. I did like the stud8(dont have anymore) and O8 in the morning at viejas. I played in about 35 tournaments total at these casinos. Made the final table 7 times winning a stud8 at viejas and a holdem at sycuan.I never chop the prize pool at the final table. I probably wont take tournaments seriously until i turn 21 or unless they run better structures. I will probably take a shot at the 250 buy in poker aces at viejas this upcoming month if i get the day off from work but other than that tournaments are just a novelty to me that i play 3-4 times a month. Cash games are where the money is :tup:
I never said 2 pair was a shitty hand at all, but all tape was trying to do is tell you why the guy probably kept calling your raises, and you childlishly call him an idiot. Two pair is not as strong as you think it is, cause it’s only better than one pair (or a lower two pair.) Every other hand in hold’em aside from one pair could have beaten it…idiot.
If you can depend on SRK for one thing, it losers bitching about thier lives. Don’t get all online-pissy to me just cause you’re stubborn enough to lose a hand when you should have just looked at your fucking cards and anylized your opponent. If he kept calling your bets, you should have figured he had something big, esspecially in limit poker, cause unless he’s a complete idiot, you really can’t bluff often in limit.
I just noticed your location was New Jersey/San Diego and I live in Jersey. Have you played in any under 21 casinos around there? My friends supposedly frequent (and beat) Turning Stone a lot, and says the games there are so easy. However, these are the same guys that have given me a couple thousand over the semester so I’m not too eager to trust them. Just wanted to know if you’ve had any experience there.
My online poker came to an end after I dumped about $100 to this guy going on super tilt at $1/$2 tables. I mean…the guy got the nuts on 27/30 consecutive hands. I played maybe 5 hands during that time, partly because I thought he couldn’t keep winning. He’d win with stupid shit, like 7/4 unsuited, A/5 unsuited, 10/8 suiteds, etc. Frankly, I personally thought he was cheating somehow. I IMed Viscant and he swore people don’t cheat, and this was ‘normal’. I guess I just stink at poker. Kinda sucks, I had cleared the bonus on that site and gotten my $100 to $150, but then I lost too much to recover. I guess I’m just not lucky enough, and yes, I know I played over my bankroll.
Im from atlantic city, there are no under 21 casinos in the area. I was going into the ac casinos for a few months with my brothers id. And about games being “easy” in a particular spot. I don’t believe it because most poker rooms have both skilled and poor players it just depends on your table selection for that day. Ive never been to turning stone because it was hours from where i lived and i was just 17. The taj mahal was 2 blocks from my house and i just went there like once a week.
HORSE would be fun but you have to remember, most of SRK would die for free on the ORSE part of the game. Let me know what you guys are up for because I’m down for whatever.
Oh yeah, major props to sigley. He busted TJ Cloutier out of a WSOP tournament yesterday. I hope that’s going on TV.