poker

[Bob's Orange]

Thinking of starting to play poker for money, Don't want to spend too much but I am bored of winning all the play for fun tourneys. I normally play on pokerroom but anyone use any other decent sites, preferably full of amateurish gimps who don't know what they are doing!!

[McLovin]

ladbrokespoker.com is supposedly a good one.

[Bob's Orange]

Registered real money at pokerroom and won $25 dollers in my first game. Doubled my money already!

[Dazzza]

Ladbrokes chief, been playing a lot lately and slowly paying off the credit card bill with the proceeds.

If you have been playing a while then you'll probably know this stuff and a lot of it's common sense but I found it very handy:

- Choose your table carefully.  The bigger the stack of chips you have the better the position you will be in.  I usually look for a situation where there are no more than two players with a bigger stack and at least two with fewer.

- Marathon not a sprint.  I used to regularly chuck £20.00 in for the evening then keep playing until I was seriously up or out of cash.  Beauty of online poker it's 24hrs a day so set yourself a target (I usually double my money) then once you hit it cash in your chips and run.

- Patience Kimusabe.  One thing I have found most players online will only play when they have a hand.  Some will bluff but those that do so regularly always get caught out in the end.  Watch the old opponents see what they stake on what combos and make a mental note.  Most players on smaller stake tables can be read like books and when you have a good hand you can take them to the cleaners.  I normally find a few hands of safe betting when you sit down just watching what goes on can work wonders.

-   Vary your play.  To avoid becoming easier to read than a book occasionally play hands that you wouldn’t normally and can afford to lose.  Players that only go after a good hand usually result in a mass folding session when they try and raise the stakes.

Right I’m off to make my £20 for the evening.

[Ben Wah Balls]

Have been playing poker for money for the first time in the last couple of days. Trying pacificpoker.com, was down slightly but after winning $10 real money in one hand, I'm now up a bit. Just playing on the 10 cent or 25 cent tables so I don't lose much.

[Kinky Tom]

My mate's a good couple of hundred punds up on 'net casinos.  He's only been doing them a couple of months. :shock:

[mrs_spacey]

Have been playing poker for money for the first time in the last couple of days. Trying pacificpoker.com, was down slightly but after winning $10 real money in one hand, I'm now up a bit. Just playing on the 10 cent or 25 cent tables so I don't lose much.

You must have been practising since the last forum poker game  :winking:

[oxford_fan]

i should learn to play, i've heard lots of stories about people making a living from it.

does anyone know a decent free downloadable tutorial or similar?

[Ben Wah Balls]

I have been practising although I was better than you anyway Mrs Spacey. :twisted:

It's quite addictive, I tried on two different sites so I've spent about £25 on it in 2 days though I could get some back but I'm not good enough to really make a profit yet. Real money is a fair bit harder than play money where I could make a big profit pretty easily.

There's loads of tutorials about but I don't know which one's the best, I think we should have another forum poker game some time (just play money).

[yeo]

Lets a forum game for real money

it only needs be a tenner or something

[Ben Wah Balls]

I'd be up for playing for real money.

[timmyg]

I play on truepoker.com but not for real money as I'm not very good at the moment. It's a good site though, and there are plenty of muggins' like me on there to give the sharks their ego boost...  

[Ben Wah Balls]

I've got over $50000 of play money on poker room now, if only real money was this easy, slightly down on real money so I've given up until I get really good.

[spacey]

I've got over $50000 of play money on poker room now, if only real money was this easy, slightly down on real money so I've given up until I get really good.

Maybe you should set up a real money forum table.

[DMR]

lets have a game