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Bob's Orange
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« on: Tuesday, May 24, 2005, 16:14:36 »

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!! Soapy Tit Wank
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we've been to Aberdeen, we hate the Hibs, they make us spew up, so make some noise,
the gorgie boys, for Hearts in Europe.
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« Reply #1 on: Tuesday, May 24, 2005, 16:17:54 »

ladbrokespoker.com is supposedly a good one.
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« Reply #2 on: Tuesday, May 24, 2005, 17:40:16 »

Registered real money at pokerroom and won $25 dollers in my first game. Doubled my money already!
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we've been to Aberdeen, we hate the Hibs, they make us spew up, so make some noise,
the gorgie boys, for Hearts in Europe.
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« Reply #3 on: Tuesday, May 24, 2005, 18:05:46 »

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.
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« Reply #4 on: Wednesday, June 15, 2005, 22:47:12 »

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.
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« Reply #5 on: Wednesday, June 15, 2005, 22:48:53 »

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

« Reply #6 on: Wednesday, June 15, 2005, 22:52:20 »

Quote from: "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.



You must have been practising since the last forum poker game  :winking:
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« Reply #7 on: Wednesday, June 15, 2005, 22:56:51 »

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?
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« Reply #8 on: Wednesday, June 15, 2005, 23:10:38 »

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).
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« Reply #9 on: Wednesday, June 15, 2005, 23:59:34 »

Lets a forum game for real money Cool

it only needs be a tenner or something Cool
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« Reply #10 on: Thursday, June 16, 2005, 00:27:26 »

I'd be up for playing for real money.
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« Reply #11 on: Thursday, June 16, 2005, 07:47:46 »

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...   Sad
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« Reply #12 on: Friday, June 17, 2005, 22:21:15 »

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.
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« Reply #13 on: Friday, June 17, 2005, 22:25:30 »

Quote from: "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.


Maybe you should set up a real money forum table.
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DMR

« Reply #14 on: Friday, June 17, 2005, 22:27:18 »

lets have a game
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