Re: Things you love about live poker
 

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

Re: Things you love about live poker
 

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

Re: Things you love about live poker
 

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).

Re: Things you love about live poker
 

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

Re: Things you love about live poker
 

implied odds and the never-ending flow of Red Bull

Re: Things you love about live poker
 

-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

Re: Things you love about live poker
 

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.

Re: Things you love about live poker
 

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

Re: Things you love about live poker
 

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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]

Re: Things you love about live poker
 

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!

Watching online players try to steal the blinds [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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

The commaradery <sp> 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