Casual Hold'em players...

[LoadedWraps]

You don't learn anything from play money other than the basic rules as Jo one plays properly.

It's lame that this is the case.

[Mooshashi]

I've been playing poker since I was a kid a long time ago. I play for fun and entertainment. Makes no sense to me to play online without seeing other people's reactions.....at a certain level of ability you play the person and not the cards so playing online takes the fun out of it IMO.

[LoadedWraps]

I've been playing poker since I was a kid a long time ago. I play for fun and entertainment. Makes no sense to me to play online without seeing other people's reactions.....at a certain level of ability you play the person and not the cards so playing online takes the fun out of it IMO.

I agree with that perspective, its too bad, I wish I could sprout a full table and set of humans at will, sadly, I am stuck with Zynga for my daily fix.

[New England]

Yes you can find it under sit and go tournaments with most UK bookmakers poker clients.

I find the tournaments garbage as they can last for hours and you can still end up being punked and leaving with peanuts.

if you've got a blind structure that allows you to be patient, and you're the best player at the table, you'd need some awful luck to lose.

[Adamjr91]

We got a badass on our hands.

True, and the kid couldn't know what I had in my hand, but if you had two really ****ty diamonds and your entire strategy was to hope that ALL the remaining cards due to be drawn were also diamonds, then simple logic would tell you to fold when it was raised.

Unless you meant it was rigged?

I do agree, the guy was a legit **** for re-raising you on the flop with a minuscule chance of getting running diamonds.

I do agree, the guy was a legit **** for re-raising you on the flop with a minuscule chance of getting running diamonds.

Well, I guess as I said, it backfired on me, because (this was a few years back, so I don't recall my play exactly) I'd probably slowplayed it on the flop. Or just did a small raise to warm the pot but not scare anyone off.

But even if this silly ****'s diamonds DID come out, when your highest is a 7, you deserve to get it beaten by someone with a better two diamonds.

[Adamjr91]

Well, I guess as I said, it backfired on me, because (this was a few years back, so I don't recall my play exactly) I'd probably slowplayed it on the flop. Or just did a small raise to warm the pot but not scare anyone off.

But even if this silly ****'s diamonds DID come out, when your highest is a 7, you deserve to get it beaten by someone with a better two diamonds.

If you bitched out and slowed played the guy on the flop you deserved to lose.

If you bitched out and slowed played the guy on the flop you deserved to lose.

"bitched out"??? WTF?????

Like I say, I can't recall the exact details, and if I had done that then it would have altered the sequence of events, but when is slow playing "bitching out"?

[Mr Ehrmantraut]

if you've got a blind structure that allows you to be patient, and you're the best player at the table, you'd need some awful luck to lose.

I'm talking tournaments with hundreds of people.

[Mooshashi]

I get killed nearly every time I slow play a hand...you're just giving your opponent a chance to get lucky. Unless you have the nuts it's best to be aggressive. That's why people raise before the flop...gets rid of guys looking to fill an inside straight or something crazy.