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Oh god, the Yanks on pokerroom.com are dreadful with the trash talk.

My top trick is a well-timed "Call him you pussy" when a mid-tabled player has just been offered an all-in against a top-tabled player. He won't call him, he hates you, and he'll call anything you put against him for the next half hour to reassert his masculinity. Beautiful.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 00:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Hahah! I wonder what those sort of people would be like playing poker in real life, if they're that easy to manipulate on-line.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 08:31 (nineteen years ago) link

only got 2nd place last night.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:32 (nineteen years ago) link

In the same game in which I came 10th, ken :(

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 12:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Though I am still pwning at pretend money play. Just shows the difference between amateurs who like a laugh and people who actually want to win money.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm been WAY into online poking this week - Saturday, I won $30 and a $50 ticket to a tournamet (good for either a big-money $10,000 pool game OR a chance to win a ticket to the NEXT level big money game), but the last two days I have been pwned to the tune of $50 (via suck-outs & brain farts - have I mentioned that pocket queens don't mean dookie when an Ace is flopped?), and I think I'll need to ease off the gas & work the bet-limit HE games until I'm comfortable. (Moral victory - I almost finished in the top 100 last night in a tourney. Goo goo steps, y'all.)

A tip for you guys looking to break me - for whatever reason, whenever I'm in a "big money" tourney, I get tight-fisted & gun-shy. It's like I'm always playing behind, & feel like I never have enough chips to, for instance, call a pre-flop raise when I've got an Ace w/ a middling kicker. I'm hoping that practice (and/or binge drinking) will grow me some chest hair. Another tip - if you take your sweet ass time in calling a $30 bet when you have over $1,500 in chips EVERY SINGLE TIME IT'S YOUR TURN, you'll really piss me off to the point that I'll be tempted to whack you upside your virtual head. And you'll probably pwn me, too.

Yeah, obviously the psych game isn't the same online as in real life - for one, you can turn off the table chat, which is nice if you're easily swayed - but shenanigans like the long pause between bets (and the stupid HURRY UP bar that pops up) make up for that. Also, the big-ass pre-flop re-raise is just as annoying / antagonizing in the virtual world as it is in the real world.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 15:17 (nineteen years ago) link

i dunno whether i can ever play a real life game now that i'm so used to laughing OUT LOUD whenever i know i have someone suckered when i have the top hand!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link

David, I'll be in fo sho. I'm still totally in need of practice, though - I've got so far to go before I learn what to do at whatever point in a game. And must remember to do it sober (yeah, right)...

Tonight, again, I appear to have nothing on, and Sgs has already told me she's got thesis stuff to keep her occupied. Watch this space?

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:26 (nineteen years ago) link

i dunno whether i can ever play a real life game now that i'm so used to laughing OUT LOUD whenever i know i have someone suckered when i have the top hand!

Hah, yeah, I don't think I could get away with singing Notorious BIG lyrics ever time I get the nuts either.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 16:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, yeah - I do my own wrong-headed color-commentary now (complete w/ total misues of poker slang). I'm afraid my roommate's going to have me committed if I continue on like this.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Definitely going to be around later (9, 10, 11 GMT). David, I am Markelby on pokerroom.com - might you be around? Anyone else?

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 18:08 (nineteen years ago) link

I might be, though probably not until later (more like 12 or 1 GMT, or 7 / 8 PM EST). Look for POPSHIZZ.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Okay, will do (but if you can get there earlier, so much the better :)).

I fancy another tounrey tonight - ken, fancy joining me at a single-table one?

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 18:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Is there a "friends list" type of thing on this PokerRoom contraption?

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Not that I know of, but Chris knows it best I think.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link

anyone playing?

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:01 (nineteen years ago) link

ME AND JULIA ARE IN A PLAY TOURNEY - SHE IS TOTALLY PWNING DUDE

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link

BUT I TOTALLY PWNED THE NEXT TOURNEY - FIRSTXOR!!!

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:41 (nineteen years ago) link

what's this about single table? i'm just making dinner now, join you afters if you're still awake

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link

in pokerroom, there's an icon at the bottom of the screen that's like a magnifying glass.. click on it and you can search for a player's name and it'd tell you what table they're on etc.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 1 March 2005 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Oooh, neat. Though we should still use this thread (and AIM?) to keep in touch. I did another play tourney afterwards last night and won again, though it was less fun as the dude I ended up playing against wasn't taking it seriously and going all in/raising to like $6000 each time. And he called me a fagget (sic). Sarah pointed out I should have responded with "moran", but I wasn't sharp enough to think of it. Damn.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 11:05 (nineteen years ago) link

OK then, I think we should have one tonight. Opinions?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 11:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I won't be able to play until 2300 GMT but I'd be keen.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 14:18 (nineteen years ago) link

if i'm home, then i'm not in rome.

and thus will play.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 14:33 (nineteen years ago) link

going bowling with flatmate tonite but should be back b4 11

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 14:34 (nineteen years ago) link

played in a single table $10 tourney today, came in first. won $50

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Nice one Chris. You around?

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 23:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Ah well. Another constructive night's play. Came 4th in my first pretend tourney, then won my second after a titanic battle (with blinds up to $1,500) with a cool bloke who played honestly and cautiously and complimented my game. Made a nice difference compared to last night.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 3 March 2005 00:46 (nineteen years ago) link

i've found that when i play tourneys i will have Kenny Rogers "The Gambler" going in the background.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Thursday, 3 March 2005 14:47 (nineteen years ago) link

it's really useful!! Sometimes I forget and I would start counting my money, while still sitting at the table.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 3 March 2005 15:14 (nineteen years ago) link

what's really useful, Ken? "The Gambler"?

Next time I play (prob tonight) I am going to have Tep's 1991 mix playing in the background.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 3 March 2005 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link

i just end up with 'the gambler' in my head when i'm playing a lot of poker, regardless. and i think of when kenny rogers was on the muppets, riding on that train and playing poker with rolf if i remember right.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Thursday, 3 March 2005 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link

"The Gambler" is legitimately one of my twenty favourite singles of all time. The pathos of "Somewhere in the darkness, the gambler, he broke even" is too much to bare sometimes.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 3 March 2005 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link

i like the Tetris connotations of "If you want to play the Game, boy, you gotta learn to play it right"

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 3 March 2005 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link

markelby which room are you in?

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Thursday, 3 March 2005 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Hi Chris - sorry, haven't been on this thread. Just watched the most amusing thing - three people away at our play tournament, so they stayed in till nearly the end. Julia happened to be one of them, and she won AT LEAST 6 hands without being there! Julia, you came 2nd :) The best moment, though, was when one of the away guys (away since the very beginning, this is), was forced all-in and was dealt FOUR ACES.

A game of skill, you say? Ha!

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 4 March 2005 00:03 (nineteen years ago) link

four aces? that's insane. sorry about having to leave so abruptly. i was even doing well before i left, which is unusual for me...though maybe i play better when i'm not there!

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 4 March 2005 03:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Yay - my first real-money (one-table) tournament success - 2nd place and $15! I should have won, though - I was about $10,000 up on the last remaining guy, but he played phenomenally and I made like 1 mistake and the tables were turned.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 4 March 2005 16:42 (nineteen years ago) link

anyone up for a game tonight? i need to win some money, pokerroom.com's blackjack room sucked me dry in two hands.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Friday, 4 March 2005 17:38 (nineteen years ago) link

When? I could do w/ s'more losing.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 4 March 2005 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link

if i'm in (the house), i'm in (as in up for the game)

although might be out later on. will check this thread though.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 4 March 2005 17:48 (nineteen years ago) link

6 or so or later whatever.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Friday, 4 March 2005 17:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Maybe, but doubtful - I'm hoping Sgs will have finished her studies for the night so I can spend some quality time with her.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 4 March 2005 18:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Dudes? Anyone around? I fancy a torunament/game of some description. Does everyone have AIM? I'm Markelby on that too.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 4 March 2005 22:43 (nineteen years ago) link

crap markelby im on my third tourney. 8th and 4th.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Can I play without registering or paying money or anything (I have totally skimmed this thread)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:19 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm in a play game playing like an absolute arsehole. Haven't I learnt *anything*?

Ailsa, you can play pretend poker, yes. www.pokerroom.com - it's pretty straightforward.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link

hi honeys i'm home

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 4 March 2005 23:50 (nineteen years ago) link

ken, i think chris was looking for you tonite

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 5 March 2005 08:27 (nineteen years ago) link

― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 5 March 2005 09:00 (nineteen years ago) link

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