Things you love about live poker
 

F all of this constant bellyaching. Lets be a bit more positive.

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Things I like:

-reliable tells
-football talk
-physical cards and chips
-people watching
-hot chicks
-dumb rich chicks
-busing WPT wannabes
-having the table covered
-immediately being able to spend some winnings
-etc

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I like dealers. And cocktail waitresses. And chips.

And sports on the tv.

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- Whales playing way over their skill level
- Good players running bad and playing bad and talking about it so you know they are
- All of the extra free information
- Free food (if its good)
- Free drinks (less tip)

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-Being a douchebag in person and not behind a computer screen.

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Watching 2p2 Stars six-tablers who think they can get away with three betting light in the CO getting called in two different spots and then donk-bet into on the flop.

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Watching 2p2 Stars six-tablers who think they can get away with three betting light in the CO getting called in two different spots and then donk-bet into on the flop.

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winnar. good luck trying to push someone out who says to themselves "zomg one of my cards matches one of the cards on the tables, i am luckiest players in all of the lands"

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Consistent 6+ people to the flop in every game.

Chips, chicks, and cocktails...

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1. When tourists bring their blackjack winnings to try out poker
2. Leaving with a few racks after buying in for 1/2 a rack
3. The rediculous stories people will tell to impress you
4. The seemingly <font color="red"> endless </font> supply of rebuys most people have in their pocket
5. Friendly, quick dealers
6. Something about walking around with a stack of hundreds feels pretty good

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PLaying with chips, Obv girls although most of them at the casinos here go with their boyfriends... but still some singles and waitresses and just being social instead of sitting down in front of the computer on pokerstars all day picking my belly button.

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all day picking my belly button.

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You can do this during live poker too....

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Cambodian room hostesses and cocktail waitresses who like lean in and give me a view.

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Running hot in low limit, getting really drunk and making an ass out of yourself.

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I like money.
And the general stupidity of live poker.

I also loved it when I took so many racks off of the table that when I set them down at the cage, the stack teetered over and I spilled like $4000 worth of chips behind the cashier's window. Whoops. [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] It was hilarious to see the cage boss and the cashier scramble around picking up my money.

(and before anyone tells me that I'm a dumbass for not coloring up, yadda yadda yadda the Borgata doesn't allow color-ups in the poker room).

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Free drinks (in Vegas)
Super-Nova-Hot cocktail waitresses (at the Wynn)
Monstrous Mountains of Blue (Commerce 4/8)

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implied odds and the never-ending flow of Red Bull

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-Games where I am +EV
-Fancy, pleasant rooms like those at the Borgata and the Venetian
-Proximity to fun, -EV table games
-Free premium liquor

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Free Food. Local cardroom has a great buffet on friday nites and asking and getting a comp makes me feel like a whale, even though i'm not.

I like most of the dealers in the cardroom I play at.

Oggling cocktail waitresses.

watching sports, shooting the crap between hands.

Stupid prop bets red/black, etc.

Walking to the cage with a rack or two.

A seemingly endless supply of donks (at least at 1/2 NL). Somewhat related. The gamblers mentality/tunnel vision combined with lack of record-keeping that makes people THINK they are winning players, when they aren't.

A $36/hr winrate at 1/2 NL over 150 hours. I don't even think I'm that good. My friends have hobbies that COST them money.

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Everything that has been mentioned so far x 10!!!!

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Obv girls although most of them at the casinos here go with their boyfriends...

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Sometimes they bring along their single, hot friends too. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

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Making friends that you run into wherever you go to play.

Playing with $100 bills on the table.

Live tells.

Moving back into the must move game.

Food and drink, and not just any meh food and drink most of the time, readily available. *bear claws and milk, right baby?

Dealers who appreciate players who tip.

Dealers that let players run the game under normal parameters.

Running it twice.

Shuffling chips.

Cashing out is easy.

Being able to scare/humiliate/run off angle shooters.

Learning a players style and never having to worry about them playing under a different account, err, you know what I mean.

Whales who wander in from the casino floor.

Regulars who are great for the game that are also succesful businessmen with huge cash flow that slowly donate who would never ever play online.

Fast live cash games with players who play fast and dont hollywood.

Short handed, wee hours of the morning deepstack poker.

Value betting tourists so small they dont feel like they lost much until they call off their stack over a couple of hours.

Time pots.

500 BB stacks.

Straddles!

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Listening to the unbelievable [censored] you can only hear at a live poker table.

The commaradery &lt;sp&gt; that you develop.

Manipulating people through body language and speech patterns, choice of words, false emotions.

***My favorite thing about live poker is how much you learn about people and situations and how to handle each with a mindset of positive expectation and non-emotion***

Live poker teaches you (when taught succesfully) incredible patience and control and over time can develop in a player the ability to ignore and be impervious to things that other people and online players would react to in an emotional and irrational way, i.e., insults, needling, obnoxious behvior, etc, etc, all of which are exaggerated exponentially by the inclusion of money in the situation.



-Tex

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the silly "regulars" who swear you're horrible because you raise too often

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The softness is about it.

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Not having a douchebag at every table calling people morons in the chatbox.

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-knowing that everyone at the table is not smart enough to play online

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-soft games
-deep pockets
-physically dragging in hudge pots
-being able to say "ship it holla" live

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how awful the players are

when the punk kid that thinks hes Kenny Tran calls my overbet on the river with K high

waitresses

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Running hot in low limit, getting really drunk and making an ass out of yourself.

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winner

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-soft/passive games
-easy money
-occasional hot girls
-hot cocktail waitress
-most friendly dealers
-tourists with 100 Franklins in their pockets
-regulars who think they are better than online players
-TV w/ sports and poker shows

Don't like :higher rake and dealer tip, less amount of hands /hr but the bigger stack and softer game/opponents can compensate for that.

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marking cards

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What do I love....

Making money first and foremost
Raking in a huge pot
The look on someone's face after I just outplayed them for their entire stack
And I just flat enjoy playing this game live. It's nice having a hobby that pays more than my job does.

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showing one card when all in
running it twice
better ability to read players
physical chips/cards
hot bartenders
food comps
people who think they are good but are kinda terrible
raking in a huge pot
having the floor people know your name
the "casino atmosphere"

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6. Something about walking around with a stack of hundreds feels pretty good

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Until you lose said stack of (eight) hundreds somewhere between the cage at Mirage and exiting the Love show a couple hours later. Sorry, I digressed.

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In general the thing I like best is that I'm self sustaining on poker trips. (Like someone else said, most people have hobbies that COST money.) Win enough to cover airfare and hotel, free buffet comps which I completely dig, and still have some profit cash when I get back home.

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Old stud players at the Holdem tables who think the game is all luck and aren't afraid to teach you. "Now STUD, that's a thinking man's game!" As they proceed to play some of the worst Holdem you can imagine. But hey, it's all luck old dude! Bad break on that hand my friend. And that one too. And yeah, that other hand was unlucky too, that sux.

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-knowing that everyone at the table is smart enough not to play online

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couldn't agree more

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Meeting different people, and yes, I get a kick out of even the most obnoxious, the degens, the characters,etc.

free drinks

much easier games limit for limit than online.

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All players are eagerly trying to get to value town.

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1) Listening to what other people believe to be true.
2) Spreading lies, and hoping other people believe me.
3) Chips, tidal waves of blue chips (4/8 @ Commerce)
4) Football, roast duck wonton soup and poker all at the same time. (Hawaiian Gardens)
5) The 2am Parade of the Drunken Hotties (as Studio 54 closes @ MGM)
6) taking $ from a guy reading HEFAP at my table.
7) Busting maniacs.
8) Chewing out the "setup" people.
9) Table shares.
10) Just being able to win @ LLHE.

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Old stud players at the Holdem tables who think the game is all luck and aren't afraid to teach you. "Now STUD, that's a thinking man's game!" As they proceed to play some of the worst Holdem you can imagine. But hey, it's all luck old dude! Bad break on that hand my friend. And that one too. And yeah, that other hand was unlucky too, that sux.

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Going to play any form of Stud with these same people, and discovering that they suck just as badly as they do at holdem.

I mean, come on, how often will you see someone in Stud/8 call 4 bets cold on 3rd street with AK7 rainbow (at least the Ace was his door card) and proceed to catch perfect-perfect-perfect-perfect for a wheel? I don't even think that has ever happened online.