Can you believe this

[pikachu656]

2,7
2,5
2,4
2,9
2,3
2,6

Can you believe that. My 7th hand got a little better 4, 5. Could it be a sign??

 

[Otaking]

I don't even know how to play poker, and that looks bad. At least you got lots of twos.

 

[DnetMHZ]

Yes I can actually. Looks like the hands I was getting in my Friday night live game.

 

[MX2]

Can you really make cash off these sites?

 

[merlocka]

deuces wild, FTW!

 

[gigapet]

I hope you folded all of those unless you had to be in on blinds

 

[gigapet]

Originally posted by: MX2times
Can you really make cash off these sites?

obviously someone has to win

 

[OdiN]

You probably could have bluffed your way through at least one of those hands.

 

[ebaycj]

22277
or
77722

is one of the BEST hands you can make in poker (assuming you are holding 2 7 in your hand). nobody ever sees it, nobody will ever think you are holding the boat.

 

[pikachu656]

Originally posted by: gigapet

Originally posted by: MX2times
Can you really make cash off these sites?

obviously someone has to win

People do make money but it's definetly not me. I just play the $1-5 one table tournaments and if I do win I just make a few bucks. Took me about a month to win $45 bucks. Maybe I can quit my day job and just play poker all day.

 

[BlueFlamme]

Originally posted by: gigapet

Originally posted by: MX2times
Can you really make cash off these sites?

obviously someone has to win

The poker site makes the money. The more pots are played, the more rakes they collect. Plus the fee for joining the tournaments.

 

[Tu13erhead]

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[Vic]

Originally posted by: MX2times
Can you really make cash off these sites?

Poker tournies can be hugely profitable for the house. That's why there's been such an explosion of them in the past few years. Think of the WSOP main event. More than 5000 players paid a $10k buy-in to vie for a roughly $20 million purse. Oops, where'd the other $30 million go?

 

[Zolty]

Originally posted by: MX2times
Can you really make cash off these sites?

not with those cards....

 

[Vic]

BTW: Play your opponent, not your cards. That's harder to do online than in real life, but it's still the only way to win the game.

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Originally posted by: MX2times
Can you really make cash off these sites?

Over a month I make more playing a couple hours an evening 4-6 evenings a week than I do with my 40 hour a week job. And I make a pretty decent salary at my regular job. This is playing relatively small stakes no limit hold'em. Every now and then I honestly consider quitting my job but I really just don't want that pressure. *shrugs*

 

[Cooler]

The chance of getting those number can be high as computers ARE NOT RANDOM!
Some crapy algorithms are known to produce results such as yours.

 

[poopaskoopa]

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: MX2times
Can you really make cash off these sites?

Poker tournies can be hugely profitable for the house. That's why there's been such an explosion of them in the past few years. Think of the WSOP main event. More than 5000 players paid a $10k buy-in to vie for a roughly $20 million purse. Oops, where'd the other $30 million go?

It's not that bad of a deal for the players:

Event #42 No Limit Texas Hold 'em World Championship
Buy-in: $10,000
Number of Entries: 5,619
Total Prize Money: $52,818,610

That was for the 2005 main event.

 

[imported_surferdude]

ive been playing at full tilt for about 3 months with a 400.00 stake and so far im ahead about 11k.

its alot harder online than in person because you really have to play your cards more than the person IMHO.

i like the sit and go tournys but found that if you enter larger purse tournys and play tight then its easy to money.

 

[Pepsi90919]

uh... buy low, sell high?

 

[JDrake]

Ouch
I always lose poker when I'm with my friends, but never anywhere else

 

[ThunderLew]

Just have patience. Everyone wants to get good hands right away. There have been times when I have been in Casinos and not played a hand for hours... it sucks... but it is a lot better than trying to play crappy hands and getting burned with them.

 

[Yossarian]

My first hand online at a real money table was AA. I took that as a good omen until they were cracked on the river.

 

[ThunderLew]

Originally posted by: Yossarian
My first hand online at a real money table was AA. I took that as a good omen until they were cracked on the river.

Was it a structured betting table or a home game? I see stuff likefrequently when I am playing a structured betting game at a Casino.

 

[pikachu656]

Originally posted by: Vic
BTW: Play your opponent, not your cards. That's harder to do online than in real life, but it's still the only way to win the game.

It's alot harder to bluff your opponents online that in person. You can't see them.