― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link
Seconding this request.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link
First thing you can do - register with Partypoker.com or pokerstars.com and start playing the play money games and reading the small tutorials if they'd be useful. The games'll be silly but you'll get a hang of the interface etc. If you sign up for Pokerstars (currently the biggest, most highly regarded site) and there's somewhere you can say that someone referred you, please tell them efil4elbmow sent you :)
If you can afford $50 or so, then deposit that and play the lowest buyin real money games - $0.01/$0.02 no-limit at Stars (double at Party), where it'd be hard to lose more than $10 even if you played blindfolded. It's a lot better than the play money tables because even when such tiny sums are at stake, people care about the outcome - when the chips are pretend, they could just push with every hand.
Anyway - AIM/MSN me when I'm next on and we can chat more. I have LOTS of stuff to tell you!
― === temporary username === (Mark C), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― === temporary username === (Mark C), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:50 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.flopturnriver.com/US-Friendly-Poker-Rooms.php
It might be wise to cross-reference with this list, and also to consider that Full Tilt is basically the only solution for US Mac users at this point; Bodog stopped development of their Mac client last month, and Pokerroom no longer accepts US bets.
― govern yourself accordingly (dayan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― === temporary username === (Mark C), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― === temporary username === (Mark C), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 23:28 (seventeen years ago) link
I had a pretty decent Jan - made about $1500 or so, played 11k hands of cash and maybe a dozen SNGs - and a couple of MTTs which both ended with bad beats a few dozen hands outside the money. I am still playing mostly £50NL 6max, but am getting frustrated with the lack of tables - even at peak times at Crypto there are maybe only a dozen, and I don't know of any other sites - apart from the Boss network which I am loathe to use as it doesn't support Poker Tracker - that provide £ tables.
The reason I am so keen to play in sterling is because I am an overall loser at $100NL but am making 10PTBB/100 at £50 which is very pleasing indeed. The game is simply far easier.
― === temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 5 February 2007 13:02 (seventeen years ago) link
Think I'm gonna have to put the poker ambitions on hold for a little while, feeling too stressed/depressed about job/career/life changing plans to devote any energy towards it. May buy a book and do some offline studying.
― ledge (ledge), Monday, 5 February 2007 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Monday, 5 February 2007 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link
small fish though really. but it made me feel better esp seeing all the addicts on l.t. losing $$$$$$$$$$$$$$s.
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 5 February 2007 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link
I also played poker during it but, after 600 grinding, tedious, painful hands I finished down £35 (though rb and bonus makes it about breakeven). Man I've seldom enjoyed poker so little - but in comparison to all these astonishingly self-deluded idiots (the Roberto Baggio/Toadfish out of Neighbours fellow in particular) I felt like I had a money-printing machine in front of me.
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― govern yourself accordingly, Saturday, 31 March 2007 04:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mark C, Saturday, 31 March 2007 10:32 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Mark C, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Will M., Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mark C, Thursday, 3 May 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link
I am loving PKR.com! haha, like, i was sceptical at first, but, after the first time you make CHICKEN NOISES at people, you fall in love with it.
oh my god.
the only thing is you need a pretty decent computer for it to work.. my laptop can just about run it on the min spec settings.
― ken c, Monday, 28 May 2007 06:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, I tried it and it was just ridiculously slow. Haven't played it for a while, so they may have ironed out the issues. Have you actually played real money there?
Having a pretty crappy May - am only in the black thanks to bonus and rakeback. $100NL isn't kicking my arse as such, but it's not letting me get a foothold either. Still trying though...
― Mark C, Monday, 28 May 2007 11:07 (sixteen years ago) link
i've just played STTs there so far!
― ken c, Monday, 28 May 2007 11:09 (sixteen years ago) link
but with real money