Poker is fun!

[UNCjigga]

Especially when its Texas hold'em

and especially when its no-limit

and especially with real money

and especially when you win! oops poker face = :disgust:

 

[Crusty]

What was the buy in?
Blinds?

 

[Kilgor]

I just won $30 playing Texas hold'em with my brother and some friends tonight. Now I have some money to go the firing range tommorow.

 

[UNCjigga]

$20 buy-in...with 15 people! I didn't win though...but I stayed alive pretty long, and had some killer hands (made some killer mistakes too though.)

Edit: Blinds started at $1 small; $2 big and quickly progressed to $5/$10 and then $10/$25 as people were eliminated (each player putting in $20 real got $250 worth of chips.)

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Too bad it's purely a game of chance, with the only skill involved being bluffing.

I prefer Bridge as cardgame.

 

[UNCjigga]

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
Too bad it's purely a game of chance, with the only skill involved being bluffing.

I prefer Bridge as cardgame.

There's more skill than that. Some of my friends are pretty damn good with the probabilities (i.e. 'know when to hold, when to fold'.) If its single-deck and they're right of dealer, watch out!

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: Jigga

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
Too bad it's purely a game of chance, with the only skill involved being bluffing.

I prefer Bridge as cardgame.

There's more skill than that. Some of my friends are pretty damn good with the probabilities (i.e. 'know when to hold, when to fold'.) If its single-deck and they're right of dealer, watch out!

Try playing Bridge, then you face having to know the positioning on a full deck of cards, who will have which card, and in what order they'll play them depending on what you play.

 

[Entity]

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
Too bad it's purely a game of chance, with the only skill involved being bluffing.

I prefer Bridge as cardgame.

There's a lot more to it than that, but to each his own, I suppose.

Rob

 

[BaboonGuy]

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1

Originally posted by: Jigga

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
Too bad it's purely a game of chance, with the only skill involved being bluffing.

I prefer Bridge as cardgame.

There's more skill than that. Some of my friends are pretty damn good with the probabilities (i.e. 'know when to hold, when to fold'.) If its single-deck and they're right of dealer, watch out!

Try playing Bridge, then you face having to know the positioning on a full deck of cards, who will have which card, and in what order they'll play them depending on what you play.

too bad old ladies don't play for money

 

[geckojohn]

I'm addicted to poker now too... it's super fun playing Texas Scrotem,

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: BaboonGuy

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1

Originally posted by: Jigga

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
Too bad it's purely a game of chance, with the only skill involved being bluffing.

I prefer Bridge as cardgame.

There's more skill than that. Some of my friends are pretty damn good with the probabilities (i.e. 'know when to hold, when to fold'.) If its single-deck and they're right of dealer, watch out!

Try playing Bridge, then you face having to know the positioning on a full deck of cards, who will have which card, and in what order they'll play them depending on what you play.

too bad old ladies don't play for money

Maybe not, but the rich old men certainly do. There is quite a lot of money riding on games and tournaments, the better players are living off it just like with poker.

 

[AzNmAnJLH]

bill gates and warren buffet plays bridge... they are filthy rich

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Originally posted by: AzNmAnJLH
bill gates and warren buffet plays bridge... they are filthy rich

Thank god they don't play poker, I don't think I'd call a $2 Billion dollar bluff no matter what I had in my hand :S

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
Try playing Bridge, then you face having to know the positioning on a full deck of cards, who will have which card, and in what order they'll play them depending on what you play.

Never played Bridge but I've played Pinochle. As much as I like Pinochle I must say there's a reason you don't see it on TV like no limit Texas hold'em. It doesn't have the excitement or suspense of no limit hold'em. I'm guessing Bridge is the same way - fun in it's own way but not something that's going to get popular or be on TV.

I love no limit hold'em. I've been playing on UltimateBet.com for a few months now. The only downside is playing for free chips isn't "real" poker because the players don't care and can get more. If you want to have some fun play for Ultimate points or better yet real $$$. My favorite is the 1c/2c blinds because you can have some fun and it's still fairly cheap unless you get too aggressive.

 

[Dudd]

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
Too bad it's purely a game of chance, with the only skill involved being bluffing.

I prefer Bridge as cardgame.

Feel free to sit at my table any day.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
Too bad it's purely a game of chance, with the only skill involved being bluffing.

I prefer Bridge as cardgame.

I've never heard of "Strip Bridge" - and if it did exist, I wouldn't want to see the octogenarian results.

- M4H

 

[BaboonGuy]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
Too bad it's purely a game of chance, with the only skill involved being bluffing.

I prefer Bridge as cardgame.

I've never heard of "Strip Bridge" - and if it did exist, I wouldn't want to see the octogenarian results.

- M4H

lol, great word!