danneth

who plays it ?!!

who with?!?

who much do you usually win or lose a night

DanRSturbo

I play on pacific poker from www.pacificpoker.com but for practice money, I ain't that good yet I had 7 grand at one point but got real cocky with it and spunked it all on the higher tables

topaz

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i play www.partypoker.com

just for fun

patchST

I play PKR, but only for play money, I pretty rubbish so don't want to risk my own cash

RichardPON

Stars mostly, but I play live at a reasonable level at a few clubs in London and travel to play. Been playing a long while now!

Harris.

Mugs game, never have done and never will

RichardPON

Brilliant

A conclusion that its a mug's game, given by someone who openly admits he's never played!

Smit

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PKR Poker is good, the graphics make the game really cool

Usually play on Pacific Poker, username is Smit1979 if any fancies a game sometime

RWD_cossie_wil

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Play party poker and PokerStars, normally play $5/6 buy-in sit and goes, generally finish in the money 7/8 times out of 10

Have to organise a PF table, I started a thread on this a while back

topaz

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count me in!

Red16

i play on Ladbrokes, username is RS1600i, not played in a few months tho win a few quid here n there, nothing to write home about.

AndyBrew

I have played on Victor Chandler for about a year, and to be honest online poker is not what one would call random, so expect some pretty spectacular bad beats

always tend to end up even, if I play very tight and concentrate I can slowly increase my bank roll but I am usually pissed and get over confident and loose it all on $50 buy in table

live games are where its at, but I would only play friendly stakes Ł5/Ł10 buy in.

RichardPON

Absolute nonsense.

Online is exactly as random as playing live.

AndyBrew

yeh of course it is

RichardPON

Andy,

This is one of the biggest myths of all time.

I've been playing live for 5 years and online for about 4 now, and I have a tracker online that tracks my playing stats across all sites.

My percentages are EXACTLY as you would expect in all situations.

The reasons people state that online is fixed is simply don't understand statistical probability.

When you play online compared to live, you see approximately 10 times as many hands per hour, so the statistics are more obvious. This means that you will see 5% outs a lot more than live. Consider also that all of the networks such as cryptologic are all independantly audited and regulated.

My stats on poker tracker are based over 50,000 hands and all the probabilities sit as you would expect.

The simple fact is that those people who claim it's fixed are either not very good players, supported by the fact that over 90% of all players are losing players, or don't understand simple mathematics.

I know what a bad beat is - a bad beat is your opponent hitting runner runner full house against your A high flush at 4 in the morning for a $12,500 WSOP package, but it happens.

You simply can't argue the stats - show me your poker tracker stats, and they'll be exactly as you would expect because guess what?

Porkie

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Rich is right. Online is as straight if not STRAIGHTER than live!

I organise a game once or twice a month for some of my clients who play alot both live and online.

Playing next Tuesday actually. Would you like to come and play Rich?

I am SHITE but we have a really good laugh.

We play in our building. We have a pro croupier called Mary who is great fun and has big boobs and knows how to show them off

lead_foot

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Sounds like an ideal Croupier.

RichardPON

I would love to mate. Just let me know details...

dreamin

i play, pkr and pacific, only play money but on pacific i got a nice sum shall we say

anyone fancies a game on pacific im HIISTLER

AndyBrew

I know what your saying and it all makes sense and I can't show you my stats because I have no idea how to do that I am very much a casual player and probably not very good at it I would guess.

however....

I can play distinctly more aggresive offline than I ever possibly could online because online the cards that come out on the flop etc. always tend to leave many winning hands available usually a straight draw, a flush draw etc etc so all of a sudden your pocket aces don't look so strong and 9 times out of 10 somebody will always have the nuts!!

I don't know, I can't help but think online poker is biased towards excitement I am not saying its "fixed" because that would be wrong.

the other night I played a few tourneys and got pocket kings 5 times and lost everytime, most of them went as all in's either because I went all in or somebody else went all in and I felt obliged to follow

RichardPON

Mate, it's easily done, but you just have to know your probabilites off by heart to know what is and isn't a bad beat.

When your Aces play against a 789 flop for example, they aren't half as good as they were.

Example? Don't get mad when your opponent is four to the flush and calls your all-in after the flop, as he's 35% to hit it. When you play your AK, remember that up against two random non-paired cards, you're only a 2 to 1 favourite.

It also depends what type of poker you play. If you play tournaments, then tight aggressive is the way to go, and your aces WILL be the best hand as many times as they should be.

Play cash games, and you WILL get your Aces cracked more often, simply because the game is more loose and more people will see more flops with suited connectors etc....

The biggest problem online is that people, without human interaction, tend to play much more trappy. Never let anyone outdraw you without the right price. Get all-in pre-flop with your As and over the long term, you will be ahead with them - you just have to ride out the shot term flutuations to be in profit over the long term, as long as your bankroll management is good, and you don't play higher stakes than your money allows.

A little home game we play, and recently got my Aces cracked twice by the same person, once by Kings, and once by Q3. Was I mad? Not at all. I WANT those calls, because they are mistakes on his part. Just like online - you WANT the bad calls, because you will show a profit on those plays long term..... but you will also suffer some hideous beats as a result of short term statistical fluctuation.

Poker is basically applied statistical mathematics, but as the High Court ruled last week, you still need a little bit of luck!

Coldo

Play a bit, best win was $612, worst loss was $190. on the short stack, went all in with pocket aces, got beat with 3 of a kind 2's on the river....

Makes you wonder if online is fixed though, who would call that kind of money with a pair of 2's? In its defense though, it does generally seem to be as fair as a real table.

Harris.

I know people who do play and hardly ever win, you always lose in the end so i avoid it

RichardPON

Tell that to my mate.

Over $2million since 2006.

danneth

my brother is a poker specialist for william hill runs all the online stuff etc, the reason i asked this question was to find out wich people are playing on the lets call it " interesting sites"

dreamin

just checked my practice money on pacific poker and i got 1,211,000 and odd

Smit

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Oooooooooooooo Ya fookin bastid!!!!!!!!!

RWD_cossie_wil

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Has to be said, on Party poker there ALWAYS seems to be AA vs QQ or AK vs JJ etc, seems to set up theese situations loads to make sure the rake gets increased...

But again on Party poker you get lots of real idiot play, people calling your all in's with absolutly nothing , then getting angry when they loose!

RichardPON

Mate, you aint kidding.

I think I woke the dead with the scream!

Smit

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Rich - I would have thrown the PC out the window i reckon