Oh and Dev, I sponsored 200 quid of my mate's buy in for a £1000 buy in tourny last month. He finished 41st, one place outside the money. Lost me my 200 quid and about 600 quid winnings not getting one further. Screw your 20 quid
"the Court finds that capital was not a meterial [sic]-income-producing factor in Baxter's gaming income. In fact, the Court finds that Baxter's income was derived entirely from his personal services and that the capital he used to finance his poker playing was merely a "tool of the trade." The money, once bet, would have produced no income without the application of Baxter's skills. [ . . . ] it was Baxter's extraordinary poker skills which generated his substantial gaming income, not the intrinsic value of the money he bet" Baxter v. United States
Ach I was annoyed at the time, I'm back on the winning trail again tonight though. In that hand she had only about a 2% chance of hitting the river, I reckon I was about 19 -1 on when we went all in. I'll take odds like that all day. As I said on another thread last year, I wanted her to call, even if she won on the river I know I played it exactly right and I just got unlucky, if I repeat that scenario in future I will still win a lot more than I lose. I always have.
Playing low stake online poker is a mugs game . Reason being is that you get muppets playing who have no idea what they are doing as you discovered when you were called all in by a K5 . I gave up playing online poker years ago because the bad beats were brutal . Get yourself to the casino . All of them in Glasgow hold live tournies . The Stanley has one on a Friday night . Real poker with real people . That means you will have to socialise though Dev .
I get occasional bad beats Aldo,everyone does, they tend to annoy because it seems they happen a lot, in reality they don't happen all that often, it's just that online you play an awful lot more hands than a live game, but as I said in the long run it's worth it, I want the fish to call me. I do play every couple of months at home with my mates, not massive stakes though, it's fun. I tend to win the majority of those games too, guess I must be really really lucky.
Dev Maverick ! Off course you want to be called by bad cards but I found that the frequency of the bad beats were worrying . Of course that could be down to the fact that you get more trumpets calling you with nothing than you would on a live game . I did join a site , 808 I think it was and won $200 dollars on a sit and go tourney . I tried to take some money out of my account and because I had just joined I wasn't allowed to lift the dough for forty eight hours . I don't think I won another hand after that . That was me finished with online poker .
Indeed Eddie, you need the patience of a Saint to play low stakes and if you have that - which I do - then it's not a lottery because patience is a skill on it's own. It also helps if you can calculate the odds (pot or implied) which likewise I can do, it's not Rocket surgery. As I said more often than not I'm in the money and however low the stakes are, for me the fun is in the winning and not the actual playing. I play very few hands, very few, i'm very selective in what i'll play and don't mind not seeing a flop for 10 minutes or more, i'll admit it can be frustrating but in 3 years i've taken plenty of money out of my account and never had to top it up with cash from my bank. Besides that, I know i'm a better than average player and it would be hard to believe that i'm the only decent player playing low stakes, I've even heard that some of the big names in poker play low stakes tables, just for the fun of it.
And this: Maniacs probably put a lot of people off playing Low stakes but I like a maniac at the table, he usually takes out a couple of players with no risk to me.
****e. Well... I googled and I found the top ranked players for 5 online poker platforms are all different (http://www.officialpokerrankings.com/). I also found that almost every online tournament has a different winner (http://www.bluff.com/thepokerdb/) Following the betting patterns of 5 other people isn't a skill. Reading someones facial expressions is. That is why there isn't as many online poker players winning tournaments compared to those plying their trade at live tables. Poker is a game of chance at the end of the day and just because one person won 1 tournament it doesn't mean they are ****ing amazing at poker. Tell me mick, how many online poker players have even managed to make it to more than 1 final table in a tournament? Once you've answered that you can tell me how many final tables a professional, such as Negranu has been to.
If I've got money to waste through gambling I'd rather lose it on something I enjoy watching such as horses, rugby or football. Each to their own of course but i've just never really got the appeal of cards.
