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I've recently started playing relatively seriously online again and have gotten reasonably good. Strictly Hold'em.

Found a few cash games at my local Grosvenor the past few weeks and am trying to get used to the change in environment and found that I'm really enjoying it.

I put in a tenner into online play twice a month and use the winnings to buy in at casino tables.

Anyone else play often?

Mods, please feel free to move thread. I could only find ones from 2010.
 
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Bricks and Mortar tend to be softer games than online, just make sure you pay attention and work out quickly who the good regs are. :)

Aha yeah, already sussing a few of them out. I can only play midweek and starting to recognize a few of the better players that rarely limp and aggressively re-raise.

It's crazy just how different it is to online. Almost a different game, though a lot more enjoyable for obvious reasons, especially if it's a sociable table.
 
Play a monthly home game.

Use to play a lot online until Black Friday and the games just got too tough/too much of a grind. Rake increase and i went from a B/E player to losing. Stopped playing online. I’m sure it worked out to be roughly that rake costs roughly 1BI/1000

Play[ed] locally in the Grosvenor as well with a mate from my home game but he’s moved away and lost my lift to there so that put an end to that.
 
Never played for real money - used to play HoldEm online with a couple of people regularly - more for the social aspect, forgotten most of what I knew about the game though now.

I always felt like the free online ones tended to try and manipulate you into feeling confident enough to play with real money though - the results were odd sometimes as someone who has a head for passingly noticing patterns, etc.
 
Never played for real money - used to play HoldEm online with a couple of people regularly - more for the social aspect, forgotten most of what I knew about the game though now.

I always felt like the free online ones tended to try and manipulate you into feeling confident enough to play with real money though - the results were odd sometimes as someone who has a head for passingly noticing patterns, etc.

I think unless you have something to stake and potentially loose, the game lacks all purpose and majesty. So much of what makes poker viable and interesting as a game is how you and everyone else at a table values their hand. If you have nothing to loose then there's no value to it.

It can work the other way too. Last week I played at a £50-250 buy in table, 1,1 blinds. Was there for about an hour before this guy joined, ****** as a fart and took a fat wedge from his pocket and brought in for £250. He was making these ridiculous bets that had no sense to them at all and therefore you couldn't ever get a read on him. He ended up pushing everyone off the table because he clearly had enough money not to care and it was never worth calling him unless you had a monster hand. People who don't care about valuing their own hand make the game just as pointless as if you where playing for nothing.

Not to say there's no value in playing for play money of course, it's a good place to learn the basics, just very poor for teaching you ranges and such.
 
Play a monthly home game.

Use to play a lot online until Black Friday and the games just got too tough/too much of a grind. Rake increase and i went from a B/E player to losing. Stopped playing online. I’m sure it worked out to be roughly that rake costs roughly 1BI/1000

Play[ed] locally in the Grosvenor as well with a mate from my home game but he’s moved away and lost my lift to there so that put an end to that.

Aye, my brother talks about how it all changed after Black Friday. How there was no value in playing single games from that point onward. He used to do reasonably well out of it too, basically a second income.

I was playing just after the boom started but quit before BF and didn't really pick it up seriously again until about 6 months ago.
 
Used to play a lot online - multiple tables at a time, did ok for a few years, made good money (averaged around £500-1000 a month profit) back in early days of online before "black friday" - similar to above - was like a second income/weekend nights out etc covered.

Played a few cash games here and there over the years (some dodgy back room games as well!!) - Good fun, nothing mega serious money. Met some funny characters.

Hardly played in years now - just don't have the time to grind it anymore. Days of playing till 2/3am are long gone.

Enjoy a social game with the boys every so often now.... I do miss the old days - was pretty easy to make money multi tableing on a Friday/Saturday night online

did have a very funny experinece playing on a cruise ship one night about 3 years ago - family went to bed, I went to the casino on the ship - sat down - friendly game nothing major.... Took a few hands of a guy who started to go full tilt, really wanted to get back at me - was playing very loose and I was running pretty hot with cards. Anyway - back and forth for a while - until he shoved a massive bet pre flop, I had A-A, I just called his bet as I knew he would throw more in as we went, flop came A-K-2.... I put him on K-K probably - next card was nothing (7 I think) - then final card was another 2 - he shoved more money in, I called. Sure enough he smugly turned over K-K for a full house- until I turned for the better full house. Was about £800 pot.

A couple of nights later - I saw him point at me, whilst with his wife, in the bar after dinner.... later that night his wife came over and said - "glad you took the cash off him the other night - he's needed a loss like that for a while as he's been claiming he's unbeatable at hold em" - I did laugh but half expected her to ask for the cash back! Paided for a few trips and all the tips on the ship!!!
 
Aha, classic. That's the danger in thinking your the big billy when your off the tables. You're only ever as good as your last hand and whilst it's important to feel confident, you should never get cocky.
 
Since the reopening of my local Grosvenor post covid, most of the tournaments are self deal and that doesn't interest me, so I haven't been back. Tbh I haven't played much since black friday which was what, 2010 or so? Used to play NL heads up as I found it to be the purest form of poker and the most difficult. Was only a break even to slight winner even at low stakes though. It was tournaments where I made some big wins, even though they weren't ever really my thing.

I do miss the days of watching High stakes poker and WSOP on tv.
 
Since the reopening of my local Grosvenor post covid, most of the tournaments are self deal and that doesn't interest me, so I haven't been back. Tbh I haven't played much since black friday which was what, 2010 or so? Used to play NL heads up as I found it to be the purest form of poker and the most difficult. Was only a break even to slight winner even at low stakes though. It was tournaments where I made some big wins, even though they weren't ever really my thing.

I do miss the days of watching High stakes poker and WSOP on tv.

Aye, seems bizarre that they use all the available dealers for cash games, though I suppose the rake back helps. Ever have any success in cash games at the Grosvenors?
 
Had an exceptionally bad run last night. Sat at the 1,2 table as the 1,1 wasn't open. Won a hand or two but it was far too aggressive for me and I walked off shortly after. Sat at the 1,1 when it opened and didn't hit a flop for almost 2 hours, never had such a bad run, even online. Tried to bluff a few hands to rake in a little profit but got jammed both times. Ridiculous. Maybe I'm just easy to read, 2 hours of hitting nothing will do that I guess.
 
I used to play on PS until the end of 2016, I guess I just fell out of love with it after several years.

Recently, though, I've started playing on there again (only play money), and even then it's only on occasion. I find it quite relaxing.
 
I randomly decided to learn (as in not just the rules, but hopefully how to play well) after coming back from Vegas last year. My aim is to get good enough to do ok at the 1/2 live tables next time I'm in Vegas (or at least not spew money all week, lol). Been playing micro stakes cash games on GGPoker for a few months while trying to study the game. I'm getting close to being break even over my last 10k hands or so, but probably need a sample size 10x that to really know where I stand. The good news though is that apparently those low stakes live games are softer than pretty much anything online. If nothing else it's a pretty fun and relatively cheap hobby (as long as you stay at the micros anyway!).
 
I do miss the days of watching High stakes poker and WSOP on tv.
Amen! PokerGO have absolutely ruined the broadcasting of poker. HSP isn't anywhere near as good as it used to be. I know someone that played in series 9 and he said it was an amazing experience to play against the best in the world. Used to follow it religiously but couldn't tell you any of the last 5 WSOP winners!
 
Some of the PAD content is the worst. Someone folds a flush at least once a video, it's embarrassing. Chris Eubank Jr was on recently and was just awful.

Played last night and doubled up my buy in after an hour. Had 66 on my last hand, flop came 3, 6, Q followed by one more Queen. Player raised me all in on the turn. Of course, river came Queens and he had quads... worst suck out I've ever seen. One of the few times I've left a table genuinely frustrated.
 
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Some of the PAD content is the worst. Someone folds a flush at least once a video, it's embarrassing. Chris Eubank Jr was on recently and was just awful.

Played last night and doubled up my buy in after an hour. Had 66 on my last hand, flop came 3, 6, Q followed by one more Queen. Player raised me all in on the turn. Of course, river came Queens and he had quads... worst suck out I've ever seen. One of the few times I've left a table genuinely frustrated.

Ouch. Sucks to lose those hands where you do everything right. But at least you know in the long run you'll profit from calling that all-in. It's actually the ideal situation I guess up until the river...

Last time I played I lost with a set of 10s (top set) where the guy went all in on the turn with nothing but a flush draw...which he of course hit. Shortly after my AA got cracked by kings on the turn with both of us all-in pre-flop :(. Even worse I actually flopped a flush draw in that hand, but didn't connect.
 
Ouch. Sucks to lose those hands where you do everything right. But at least you know in the long run you'll profit from calling that all-in. It's actually the ideal situation I guess up until the river...

Last time I played I lost with a set of 10s (top set) where the guy went all in on the turn with nothing but a flush draw...which he of course hit. Shortly after my AA got cracked by kings on the turn with both of us all-in pre-flop :(. Even worse I actually flopped a flush draw in that hand, but didn't connect.

Ooooft, guess there's solace to be taken in knowing that it happens to all of us. I wouldn't have minded but earlier last week I went on a horrendous run and felt like I was making up for that this time round. Is what it is and I suppose you have to remember that Poker is all about mitigating risk and even with supposed made hands on the flop, it'll all chance after then for a lot of the time.

I was a bit of a tit and broke my own rule tbf. As soon as you double up, leave ASAP. I was well into 150% profit before that hand and should have just walked.
 
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