Things you love about live poker

[gongshow]

having a huge stack both of cash and chips

getting it in on the flop for a 500bb pot with ur opponent drawing dead

the stories ppl tell to make u think they r good at poker

[jjk22]

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I love live poker because I think that poker is a people game. Honestly, pounding perceived statistical advantages online means nothing to me. Making friends and joking around with strangers while figuring out how to steal their money is awesome.

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Couldn't have said it better myself. They're two completely different games, and I totally suck on the computer...

[CigarMike]

Putting a player in a tournament on tilt, by annoucing to the rest of the table, " he failed to make a stop at the sink to wash his hands after coming from the area where the toilets and urinals are located". Then having that tilted player give you all his chips as he trys gunning for you.

[rograndom]

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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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Those old stud players also play the worst, unimaginative stud possible too.

"When that other guy was betting, why were you raising into me? I had two pair! I thought for sure you had the flush the way you were playing it, so i folded!"

[WYDGD]

Having to make two trips to the window after destroying a 20-40 game......

[Paulie Walnuts]

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I love the fact that none of them could beat me ever.

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So you never lost at live poker. Come to Foxwoods and play with me at my table/

[KamiKatze]

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I love the fact that none of them could beat me ever.

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So you never lost at live poker. Come to Foxwoods and play with me at my table/

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I smell HU4ROLLZ.

[naplesplayer]

WoW everyone that posted is a huge winner--LOL LOL
Really like the one from players who never lose.

[Spiffysean]

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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 <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

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Where do you play that lets you run it twice? That would be fun stuff, especially when I am playing certain games.

Now I need to put together my live poker post. I'm inspired!

[Spiffysean]

Man... there have been some great ones:

- Raising pre-flop in the Omaha 8/OB game where I'm the only person under the age of 90 and having my grandmother bitch at me, and shoot me dirty looks for 4 hours.

- Playing 1/2NL and just sitting there waiting for the nuts and knowing that some fish is STILL going to donk off all of his chips to you.

- Smashing strictly online players when they try to employ the same strategies in a live game.

- Giggling at the 21 year old kid who has made a few bucks on the interet who thinks he is going to come in and be Jamie Gold and tries to make outlandish plays... Only to be called by my bottom pair because I can see his heart beating out of his chest while he tries to pull off a stupid bluff.

- Double fisting my drinks

- In Vegas, playing at some easier rooms at 4am and just waiting for the drunken tourists to just come in and dump a couple hundo before passing out.

- Cracking the guy who overplays his aces with my 9-10 suited and watching him flip out and scream that he can't believe I called him with that trash... as I stack all of his chips.

- Mowing down the guy with pocket Kings who just can't seem to fold them when the flop comes A-8-3 rainbow.

- Getting there

- Flopping the nuts

- Making that one old guy so pissed off at the table because of chatter that he feels compelled to call the floor over... Then the floor gives you a half-hearted reprimand, and smiles, because they all hate that old grumpy bastard, too!

- Knowing that in most places, simply playing A-B-C poker will make you a winning player.

- Punishing the limpers

- Chip Tricks

- Massages as a reward for being up

- Watching 5 plasma TV's at once

- New Friends, getting table respect after a few hours for being a solid player, getting along with the dealers.