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First a question, does anyone here play poker either online or in person?

I had taking a break from playing it online for sometime besides a league I am in that is free to play in with a small cash prizes and quarterly larger game for the top 200 in points.

I started playing sit and goes and small buying tournaments again two weeks ago and not starting to realize why I took a break for long time.

It is a hell of a grind to go deep into some of the tournaments and make the pay back worth the grind.

No matter how fast and good you are at calculating your odds, outs there is to much degree of heart and head ache with the randomness of it all.

I do love the game but find myself now that I am older it takes a toll on me mentally with. As I am typing this I have four games going now and just cashed out of one.

So does anyone else play, if so what sort of games to you play. My favorite are badugi, 5 game or 8 game, and hold-em.

BTW never play for much more that a few dollars and limit myself no more than depositing $20.00 in an given week.
 
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I have never played Poker for money; I don't really care for the game. Bridge, on the other hand, helped pay my way through university many decades ago!! :)
 
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Corwin said:
I have never played Poker for money; I don't really care for the game. Bridge, on the other hand, helped pay my way through university many decades ago!! :)
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Funny you mention bridge, I use to love to play that game when I was a child. As I got older it was harder to find people that know how to play it. At anyone on my fathers side of the family's gatherings they played bridge. As a very young boy I wanted to stay up and the only way to do this was to learn how to play and play well.
 
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Millions play the game around the world in Bridge clubs and online in places like BBO. It's still extremely popular and if you're that way inclined (I no longer am) a way of making a lot of money; there are perhaps more professional Bridge players than Poker players, though I have no statistics either way.
 
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Corwin said:
Millions play the game around the world in Bridge clubs and online in places like BBO. It's still extremely popular and if you're that way inclined (I no longer am) a way of making a lot of money; there are perhaps more professional Bridge players than Poker players, though I have no statistics either way.
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I might have to check it out and get back into playing a bit. It has been years but I am sure it wouldn't take that long to get back into the swing of things. Though I don't think I care to play for money, if I do it would be for very little amounts as it is just a fun game to play.

Poker is really a boring game if there wasn't some degree of betting involved.
 
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Exactly, and I'm not a gambler which is why I enjoy the mental stimulation of Bridge.
 
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Corwin said:
Exactly, and I'm not a gambler which is why I enjoy the mental stimulation of Bridge.
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I see the merits in both games, there is a lot of mental stimulation in poker. Just a different sort as every hand is pushing you to your limits at times. How much to bet, do I have the best hand, when you have the nuts how do you get the most of that hand.

Plus with 5 game or better yet 8 game, the type of poker you are playing changes every set amount of time. You can be a great Hold-em player but if you don't know how to play Razz, 2-7, stud, stud hi-low etc you will be eaten alive…
 
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Here is another reason, it is now almost 11:30pm and there are 30 of us left in this tournament and I am getting tired.
 
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WOW!! that was a long game, 1300 were in the tournament. It was a $1.10 buy in and I came in second for a profit of $129.50.
 
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I play poker every now and then.

Mostly with friends, 10$ buy in, winner pays for the beer.
So even if you lose it costs less than an evening at a bar.

I am not really a gambler, but playing poker without stakes is really pointless, so this is a nice middle way (is that an english expression?)
 
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I used to earn a lot of money playing poker…. but now it is really one big grind to earn any money….. and that's because of George W Bush!

Hope no Americans here take offence, but as soon as he made it illegal in the US to play online, almost all the fish was gone, and making money became so much harder and tiresome.

These days I don't even enjoy playing online any-more, there is too little action, most of the players are grinders who sit and wait and wait and wait, until they get a good hand. If there is a hand played most of the time it is only two players in it…. very very rarely are there 3 or more.

Tournaments are more fun, but I don't have the possibility to sit up and play until 4 in the morning as I did when I was a university student… neither do I have the time to play for 12 hours straight. So I only play rarely now-a-days… and not so high stakes as I used to.

I play very rarely in real-life…
 
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I don't play either but lost in the mists of time I did play Contract and Duplicate Bridge. This started when I was in 6th form - during the free periods. Perhaps explains why my A-levels weren't so good.

I think that Poker was never right for me - I didn't have enough money to lose it and I am basically risk averse. Bridge though - every hand is different and knowing when to push the boundaries, when bidding, is a real art. Bluffing is also an aspect of Bridge, like Poker?, which is necessary both in the bidding and play. How you play Contract or Duplicate is very different.

My wife plays twice a week, at two different clubs, so I get feedback and find myself either validating her view or getting the text books out to see who is right or who is wrong.

Why did I stop? Work was too demanding, the journey to work was long and the hours were long. Something had to give and it wasn't work - which I enjoyed too much.
 
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I play it with friends on occasion, but I think it's a very boring game online. The only fun part in "real life" - is the social aspect.

I find the whole math/probability aspect of it dreary and I know that even if I mastered that part of the game, random chance would kick my ass so many times as to be too frustrating to be worth the effort.

Essentially, I hate investing in games that are too subject to random chance.
 
I never really got into poker, but I used to gamble quite a bit on a few other games when I lived near Detroit.

I don't do it anymore because the nearest casino to where I live now is about an hour & 1/2 drive, and I'm too lazy to drive that far. :)
 
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Poker is dull but probably because of that even the most stupid person in the world can play it.
No complexity = I'm simply not interested.
I don't play it.
 
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GothicGothicness said:
I used to earn a lot of money playing poker…. but now it is really one big grind to earn any money….. and that's because of George W Bush!

Hope no Americans here take offence, but as soon as he made it illegal in the US to play online, almost all the fish was gone, and making money became so much harder and tiresome.

These days I don't even enjoy playing online any-more, there is too little action, most of the players are grinders who sit and wait and wait and wait, until they get a good hand. If there is a hand played most of the time it is only two players in it…. very very rarely are there 3 or more.

Tournaments are more fun, but I don't have the possibility to sit up and play until 4 in the morning as I did when I was a university student… neither do I have the time to play for 12 hours straight. So I only play rarely now-a-days… and not so high stakes as I used to.

I play very rarely in real-life…
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What site did you use to play at mostly if you don't mind me asking. I would agree after pokerstars bought back fulltilt poker that fulltilt is boring and not many ever trust the site again.

I got back all my money that was in my account after it was frozen so I will go in there if they have a good promotion playing.

As for PokerStars it is nothing but fish from Brazil now in the mid to low range games.
Any ace and they are all in, so if you can get in before a flop at a 4 bet or lower raise and an ace doesn't come you can clean up.

I have never played much at the other sites, a business owner locally that I have become good friends with over the years of working together use to play a party poker when he played but has since the US ban only plays at stars now.
 
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joxer said:
Poker is dull but probably because of that even the most stupid person in the world can play it.
No complexity = I'm simply not interested.
I don't play it.
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Joxer first there are no respawning bears in poker so you are safe there but the bigger sites do have a phone app so.

One of the greatest things about poker is the most stupid person can play poker and a lot of them do. How less do you think people can make money? If it wasn't for the fish and the donkey's the game would come to a grinding halt.
 
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What site did you use to play at mostly if you don't mind me asking. I would agree after pokerstars bought back fulltilt poker that fulltilt is boring and not many ever trust the site again.

I got back all my money that was in my account after it was frozen so I will go in there if they have a good promotion playing.

As for PokerStars it is nothing but fish from Brazil now in the mid to low range games.
Any ace and they are all in, so if you can get in before a flop at a 4 bet or lower raise and an ace doesn't come you can clean up.

I have never played much at the other sites, a business owner locally that I have become good friends with over the years of working together use to play a party poker when he played but has since the US ban only plays at stars now.
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Interesting, perhaps I should check-out those Brazilian fishes.....
 
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