I tried to learn how to play poker a couple months ago, i play on partypoker a lot, but i still dont know all the hands, and what beats what, i have a little cheat sheet that lets me know what is what and what beats what, i just gotta get in my head.
I want to be this year's Chris Moneymaker but I am afraid I don't have the extra $10,000 to get me in the WSOP
I need to get into a good limit hold 'em game. No limit tournaments cause my money to flucuate too much.
I play every wednesday with friends. $20 buy in and we play 2 no limit tourneys with the winner of each tourney taking $100. 2nd place gets you nothing. I haven't won a tourney in a long time but I've finished in the top 3 consistently. One twist we played a couple times was everyone put in their 20 plus an extra 5 for each tourney. When you knocked someone out of the game you took their 5 from that tourney. What was nice about this twist was even if you didn't win the tourney you could still break even for the night by putting some people out of the game. I'm down for a 20-30 buy in tourney or 2 mini's as long as we play no limit.
We had a game going in my dorm this semester five days a week. It's one way to learn the game real fast.
We used to have a weekly game at the house, but...and I mean this in a general sense, and am sure that there are exceptions...you can't play with a house full of girls for too long; some get bored, others try and help each other, and most are learning on the go. You have to keep a list of the ascending order of hand values, and it's refered to often...we even got chips, etc. But in the end, they play for a while and then want to go to a club, or put on a movie, or play Balderdash or something. I'm still hoping that we'll get it going, but am close to admitting that it's a guy thing, in the main.
This may seem obvious to say, but you have to be intensely competitive to be a good poker player. Poker is just another of the many games we've created to allow us to compete with one another, but instead of runs or points or goals, in poker we keep score with MONEY. Not to say that women aren't competitive, because lord knows they are, but in general they don't seem to be as overt in the ways they hone that competitive edge. There's also a very high-testerone aspect to poker: the bluff. Some hyper-aggressive players will try to bluff at almost any pot with nothing, and then some others will call down huge bets with nothing because they hate the idea that they might be getting bluffed. Of course, there are some fantastic female poker players, and I've seen them use their male opponents' aggression to turn the tables on them. Since poker is also a game of deception, it's all too common to see an unsuspecting bully push and push his way right into a trap. The question of women in poker (why there aren't more of them who play professionally; why no woman has ever made it to the final table of the World Series of Poker) is an interesting one, and the writer James McManus originally pitched that idea as an article for Harper's magazine. Eventually, instead of just covering the WSOP tournament, he ended up playing in the Big One himself and finished 5th, taking home nearly $250,000 and writing of that experience in his recent book, "Positively Fifth Street." It's a fantastic read, and I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys the game.
He had you beat the entire time. I wouldn't complain when playing a very weak hand in K 4. I prolly wouldnt have even continued in the hand when an ace was out there. Really, K 4 will only lose you money, no matter how many times you get three kings.
I could play the weekend of the 29th and 30th. We could play at my house, but the only way smoking will be allowed is if we play in the garage (no A/C). I have a big table, but no felt or tablecloths. Anyone have a poker table they can bring?
I'm in. I set-up an account about 2 weeks and I'm addicated to those $20 buy-in NL Hold'em tournments.
Poker Room now has a free Mobile Texas Hold 'Em Poker Trainer. I think you have to create an account first but that is free as well.
That reminds me of a hand I lost Sunday. I had an A K. There are 8-9 people at the table. I bet pretty big pre-flop and drive most everyone out. The flop comes up K 5 9. I think that looks pretty good so I bet big and get called on it. The turn is a 2 or a 3. There is no possible flush or straight on the board. So I bet low to see what my opponent does. He does not have a whole lot of money left and goes all in. So I call thinking he might be trying to buy the pot. Turns out he has a K 5.
