#8212 - 04/27/08 06:14 AM
Re: 600 Club Update
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ZephyrGirl
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OK, I have been playing poker on facebook, and I've found that the same program now accomodates myspace. I know, Rick, David and myself all have myspace (not to mention others on here), so we could play poker for free on there. I like the program, but maybe Rick could check it out to see if he likes it.
There are tournemants, no limit and private game options.
I wasn't sure if you had a myspace FP, but it might be worth having one, just for us playing poker, if nothing else?
Anyway guys, let me know if you join and we can organise a suitable time, my thought would be late on a Thursday or Friday night for you guys, but let me know what times would suit you best.
Zeph
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#8236 - 04/28/08 02:11 AM
Re: 600 Club Update
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daevid777
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I, sad to say, am a poker virgin, I think.
I mean, I've done it once before, but I was drunk, and it wasn't for money.
Does that still make me a virgin?
I'd love to play, and if I was the "Dave" of which you were refering, I'd definitely love to learn the game.
Here we play "Texas Hold'em", which I believe just escalates into an enormously large pot where one can lose their life's savings in a few minutes. When they say "everything's bigger in Texas", they're not shittin'.
So I guess I should brush up on the "Hoyle Casino" game we bought for my dad many years back, eh?
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#8261 - 04/28/08 08:56 PM
Re: 600 Club Update
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fakepropht
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Sadly, yes you still qualify as a virgin. "Texas Hold em" is the game of choice. However, that doesn't mean you have to lose your life's savings in 10 minutes. In the real world, there are variations of the game. Such as pot limit, limit, and cap limit. Each version limits just how much a player can bet at any given round of betting. Each has it's merits and demerits. In limit, for example, you will only get paid a small portion for hitting your ace high flush and beating the guy holding trip Aces. In a case like that, you are thrilled if you are the guy holding the Aces, but pissed if you are the one holding the flush. That's where no limit might have gotten you paid a pirate's booty. You can also manipulate the length of the game by adjusting the blinds. Make them increase faster to induce more betting and all ins. Make them slower to allow longer play and more action. Make it a cash game where the blinds don't increase at all. Lastly, you can also use freebie points. Every website assigns players a certain amount of freebie points. If you lose them, you just reload more. The games play the same, but instead of losing next month's mortgage, you just lose some gold stars.
I don't know how the myspace or facebook games work, but they should have these options available. Try signing up at Full Tilt, Pokerstars, Bodog, or Doylesroom and give some free play a swing. Every site has a forum for the discussion of poker play. So you can learn and interact with other players just like here.
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#12894 - 10/19/08 07:29 PM
Re: 600 Club Update
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fakepropht
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No, not on Myspace. It's all fun and games. Which I take as serious as if my last $2 were in the pot. I am now over $200k simply by playing. If you want to make money playing, try some of the for money sites. Full Tilt, Bodog, Ultimate Bet, Poker Stars, Doyle's Room, Absolute Poker, and others. I have an account at most of them, so I can attest they are on the up and up.
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#13677 - 10/30/08 10:27 PM
Tooting my own horn
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fakepropht
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Those of you who are tired of reading my poker posts, ignore the rest of this.
One of my favorite radio programs run by four idiots as dumb as me, offers a poker game in Atlantic City twice a year. They take over the Borgata for one day, and any listener willing to make the trip and pay to enter can play. I've never been able to attend, either because of bad timing or I just didn't have the cash available. The buy in is $300 and it pays out approximately $30,000 to the winner. It's an all day affair and hundreds of players enter. I always felt I could do well there, if I could just get there. Well the planets aligned and I am Atlantic City bound in a few weeks.
We recently got our rewards from our Trump card. We can stay at Trump Plaza for free. I had my wife call them to get the full details. Our total cost to stay the night is $5.60. Solid. They had rooms available for the time I need to be there. So that's out of the way.
The Junkies, the radio program, have a once a month poker tournament on Full Tilt Poker for members of their message board. It costs $11 to enter and based on the number of entries, you can win anywhere from $100 to $400. Well I decided to enter last week. I spent my last $11 on Full Tilt to do so. I now have $.45 left in my account there. This time they had a record number of users enter. It was over 100 players. The first place payout was $300 and some change. Second was $200 and some change. On down from there. I played a smart game. Within the first half hour, I was in the top 5 in chips. By the first hour, I was top 3. Thereafter, I took the chip lead and never looked back. I stayed in 1st or 2nd place for the next four hours. I eliminated players left and right. I built my lead. I got called names. I got rooted on. I took out one of the members of the radio show. I took out another later. I got booed and cheered. Eventually, I made it to the final table with a commanding lead in chips. Second place was one of the djs from the radio show. I have played him before on Full Tilt several times and we have spoken in person on more than one occasion. So we were familiar with each other. We swapped leads a few times. I would win a pot, he would win a pot. We would take out others at the table and increase our chips. Eventually, it came down to me and him heads up. I had a slight chip lead on him. As expected, we exchanged chips back and forth. Neither making a move really. It was after midnight by now. My goal was either catch a monster hand and make him make a mistake, or play very conservative and drag out the game. He has to be at the station by 5am, so I knew he would be watching the time very closely. Since I wasn't catching big hands, I went with the drag it out strategy. It was working. Then we both caught that magic hand. He pushed all in, and had a few more chips than me at that time. I had AQ and called instantly. I think he had a pocket pair of 7s. Fuck it all if nothing hit for me, and he won it. We both played that hand by the textbook. So for my 5 hour effort, I was rewarded with over $200 and 2nd place. I feel I should have won with the way I had played from start to finish.
The point of this is that I now have most of the money required for the buy in. I have a free room waiting. I have the available vacation time. Gas prices are cheap. Looks like Fakey is going to Atlantic City in a couple of weeks to kick ass and take names. It will be rough. Pros play in these games. However I like my chances. I have been on a month long winning streak. I have finished 2nd in every tournament I have entered in the last month. I haven't paid a bar tab since. Using my winnings to do so. I am ranked in the top 10,000 players on myspace. Out of the millions that play there. Not easy to do. I just hope my luck didn't burn out the other night. I want $30,000.
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