anyone play texas holdem?

[whyrun?]

any facebook,hi5,myspace players? we should have a table set up for players to chat and get they poker game on.

i am up to 3.4mil.

[meteorite_flo]

i like lady gaga.

[Felipe]

lol

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wut?

[GluedMyNuts]

weaksauce, 50mil here

[Kaizen.]

You guys don't play real money?

I play 6 out of 7 days a week. Literally

For people that play real money, I got a good idea from my friend, he log's all his games played into a log table in exel or something. A really good way to improve your game and keep track what your possibly doing wrong.

[flip3d]

i play on pokerstars.

[whyrun?]

been thinking about going to real money.

[flip3d]

been thinking about going to real money.

Think like Nike. Just do it.

My first time on pokerstars, I turned $25 into $75 in 4 hours playing at the .05/.10c tables.

Make sure you play the limit tables. No-limit sucks if you go all in and lose :P

[whyrun?]

i will check it out. thanks for the heads.

[BustedS13]

i play on full tilt from time to time. i don't really have the tolerance for boredom necessary to make money, unfortunately. i bet shit hands all the time. it sucks.

[Bubbles]

That's why most online players multi-table.

Time flies at the casino because there's people to chat with and hot girls walking around.

[neverrain]

I would stay away from online period if you have access to a live casino. Online is fixed so that certain hands get hit more often to make action. Shady business imo.

I love playing hold'em though. Highest table i've made it to was a $500 buy in no limit. Best session i've ever had was a 9/18 table. Took over a grand off the table in less than 3 hours.

That said, who is down for a Zilvia home game in socal?

[flip3d]

Busted, you been to Ameristar yet?

[BustedS13]

Busted, you been to Ameristar yet?

like when i turned 21, yeah. ameristar, harrahs, casino queen, president, i've done all that. STILL haven't been to damn Lumiere though. i hear it's AWESOME.

do most major cities have this many casinos, or is this not normal?

[neverrain]

LA, off the top of my head:

non Indian:

Hollywood Park
Commerce
The Bicycle
Hawaiian Gardens
Hustler

Indian:

Morongo
San Manuel (nicest one in my opinion. Sick poker room. It's basically off the 210 right where you would exit to go up the mountain to Big Bear. You can get there in an hour or so if you don't drive like a wuss.)
Pachanga (sp?)
Chumash (north more past Santa Barbara)

That's the 9 I could think of off my head, plus there are numerous card rooms as well, but gambling is illegal in CA, so we can't have too many.

And if anyone gives me the "why didn't you say Native American instead Indian", you can go fuck yourself.

[BustedS13]

LA, off the top of my head:

non Indian:

Hollywood Park
Commerce
The Bicycle
Hawaiian Gardens
Hustler

Indian:

Morongo
San Manuel (nicest one in my opinion. Sick poker room. It's basically off the 210 right where you would exit to go up the mountain to Big Bear. You can get there in an hour or so if you don't drive like a wuss.)
Pachanga (sp?)
Chumash (north more past Santa Barbara)

That's the 9 I could think of off my head, plus there are numerous card rooms as well, but gambling is illegal in CA, so we can't have too many.

And if anyone gives me the "why didn't you say Native American instead Indian", you can go fuck yourself.

wasn't sure how it works. i know Missouri has this archaic law that allows casinos to operate as long as they're in or near water, so everybody builds their casino as a boat, or in a moat. didn't know LA had casinos, boner.

[neverrain]

wasn't sure how it works. i know Missouri has this archaic law that allows casinos to operate as long as they're in or near water, so everybody builds their casino as a boat, or in a moat. didn't know LA had casinos, boner.

LA has casinos because the house doesn't technically bank the gaming. They get corporations to invest into it and the casino takes a drop, like a buck or two per hand as the 'host' of the table. The drop is considered an ante and costs on top of the actual bet. This way they are making money as long as there are players playing. The blackjack and table games generally have shittier odds and slightly different rules for the game. You will probably never see larger table games like craps and roulette because of this (plus craps has the only true 1 to 1 odds for a bet vs. the casino [pretty sure it is 1 to 1, if not it's stupid close]). They are also not allow to house slot machines.

The Indian casinos can do whatever they want because the land isn't technically owned by California. You can get real blackjack and all the fun times of vegas (minus hookers...well, probably hookers too) without actually being in Vegas.

In poker both take a drop from the pot depending on the amount of players on the table. This is the same in any casino, Indian, Vegas, fake CA, but the amount could vary.

I've spent some time in the casino.

[flip3d]

The only ones I can think of in FL are Indian. Seminole, Miccosukee, etc.

There's A LOT of horse/dog tracks in FL though. They built them before the current zoning laws.
Horse - Gulfstream Park, Calder Race Course, Tampa Bay Downs
Dog - Palm Beach Kennel Club, Flagler Greyhound Track, Hollywood Greyhound Park, Naples/Ft Meyers, Orange, Sanford Orlando, and like 10 others.

[neverrain]

Hey Busted, want to hear something sad? I JUST now realized what movie your caption is from.

[whyrun?]

maine has none. mass has foxwoods and mohegan sun.

[neverrain]

Foxwoods is that massive casino? Super nice spot, like the second biggest poker room in the country (2nd to Commerce of course)?

Think they did a World Series there one year.

[Bubbles]

I would stay away from online period if you have access to a live casino. Online is fixed so that certain hands get hit more often to make action. Shady business imo.



Is this a fact?

I read that it's a random number generator and would be similar to a deck but EVERY SINGLE PERSON I know that plays poker complains about the sucks outs nonstop online.

[napaKAliboog]

When im in LA, I play with the old flips n koreans in silverlake. In long beach, we play cali hold em...

[neverrain]

Is this a fact?

I read that it's a random number generator and would be similar to a deck but EVERY SINGLE PERSON I know that plays poker complains about the sucks outs nonstop online.

Yes, this is a fact. Odds of hitting certain hands are escalated in certain situations and tables to produce more winning hands and action. I work with someone who used to do database work for Full Tilt.

From personal experience, I've seen too many bad beats in online poker to not believe it's true. Not just bad beat status, but the kind of hands where the personal literally needed runner runner with a 1% chance of hitting to win.

Ideally, the deck generator *should* randomly shuffle the deck and leave it in that order as the cards are dealt and the hand is played through. They mess with the odds to keep people rebuying. I never could understand how you would be watching poker on TV and you hear about this "whiz kid" who is an online poker star. When I play live poker, if I play right and don't fuck around, I can consistently make money sans any bad beats where I was outdrawn. I have never been able to do this online at all. I stopped playing because I just can't trust the way the deck is handled by their system. They are all located outside of the US so there is no real regulation on these companies to do things consistantly.