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11-12-2007, 11:29 PM
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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 
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#4
11-15-2007, 08:18 PM
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Re: Things you love about live poker
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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! 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 [/ QUOTE ] 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!
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#5
11-13-2007, 10:10 AM
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Re: Things you love about live poker
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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#6
11-13-2007, 10:15 AM
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Re: Things you love about live poker
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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#7
11-13-2007, 01:35 PM
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Re: Things you love about live poker
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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. [/ QUOTE ] 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.
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#8
11-13-2007, 02:09 PM
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Re: Things you love about live poker
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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. [/ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] 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? [/ QUOTE ] Then here comes the "That's how you do it Son!" speech.
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#9
11-13-2007, 02:17 PM
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Re: Things you love about live poker
-Playing in a place where being a degenerate seems "normal."
-Playing against opponents who can't see my hole cards.
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#10
11-13-2007, 02:52 PM
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Re: Things you love about live poker
atmosphere and people. I also appreciate the fact that I can actually compete as opposed to getting my ass handed to me frequently online-LOL. I enjoy little "bad structure" MTT's live prior to several hours of NL. Compared to online games people actually are easy to tolerate-mostly. If not for local live play I would have quit before I ever had any success. Of course, without online play (self abuse)I would never have had success at the live tables as quickly. Long live live poker!
Mark
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