Poker online

NokkonWud said:
25/50 cent. You don't need to play any higher.

I've been playing for around 18 months (12 months were pretty solid) and even went to Vegas to play table games there.
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Is that limit or no limit?? :confused:
 
So where do you play? And do they have a practice mode? It sounds fun but i've never ever played for cash so id want to learn first before i started throwing any kind of money at it. Thanks in advance. :)
 
I started off at bedfred. Currenlty playing at 888. Just trying to clear there bonus at the moment.

Going through a bad patch at moment but still winning but only just. I'd reccomend reading at book about it before you play for real money. Best book out there for low limit is probabbly small stakes holdem.

It is good fun as long as you gamble as much as you can aford to lose
 
KiNgPiN83 said:
So where do you play? And do they have a practice mode? It sounds fun but i've never ever played for cash so id want to learn first before i started throwing any kind of money at it. Thanks in advance. :)
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I play at William Hills, 32Red, Totalbet, The Ritz Club, UKbetting, PokerStars, PokerChamps, Party Poker, Noble Poker, Titan Poker, Blue Square................... ehhh thats probably enough for now.......... ;)

Anyway all of them have play money tables so you should not have any trouble finding somewhere to have a go.

Good Luck :)
 
Argh please dont resurrect the gambling thread.

I made hundreds on Blackjack - never lost more than I earnt but by god it was the only thing I thought about from the moment I woke up till I went to sleep - totally takes over your life even when you're winning. Steer clear :(!
 
Chronos-X said:
Argh please dont resurrect the gambling thread.

I made hundreds on Blackjack - never lost more than I earnt but by god it was the only thing I thought about from the moment I woke up till I went to sleep - totally takes over your life even when you're winning. Steer clear :(!
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If you feel it's taking over your life then it's a good time to reconsider what you are doing ...... even if you are winning.

Playing poker has certainly made me a few thousand over the last year and I play a lot, read a lot and talk a lot (possible too much of that one ;) ) about the game but I do not feel like it is taking over my life.

Poker is a fascinating game and an intellectual challenge, which I really enjoy playing. The money side of it is a bonus (well when you’re winning). If I ever got to the point where I was not enjoying the game then I’d pack it in.

If anyone is considering taking the game up then I would suggest setting aside a certain amount of money that you are willing (and able) to lose and give it a go. If you don’t enjoy it then fair enough and if you do but you lose all your starting bankroll then please give serious consideration as to whether you should continue or not.

Remember it has been estimated that only 12% to 15% of online players actually show a profit.
 
zanshin said:
Remember it has been estimated that only 12% to 15% of online players actually show a profit.
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Do you not think that sort of works out at the rough amount of people who actually take time to read/study about poker ???

I Think a lot of people still think poker is a game of luck...................

Just my opinon :o
 
Beansprout said:
I prefer to play safe, but I've never gambled for money. Share dealing > gambling for me :D
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Since when was share dealing safe? Or, for that matter, not gambling?

:D

I agree with you, though. If the object of the exercise is profit, then it's very much a case of assessing risk versus profit, and reducing risk is generally a good strategy ...... unless the potential profit is high. For instance, I've made an impressive profit in both Russian oil stocks and Russian telecomms stocks in the last few years BUT ...... the risk was that I could have lost the lot. Mostly, I've used funds managed my experts that know the market, rather than direct investments. It mitigates the risks.

So I look at a potential share investment, and weigh the anticipated profit against the risk of loosing everything. I don't make investments I can't afford to lose, unless the risk level is very low. Conversely, one of the worst investments I ever made was Brtitsh Telecom. My mind wasn't really on it and I took too much for granted (I'm talking about the government 3G licence sale and the effect on BT share prices). :(

As for poker, I play for the game, not the winning or losing, and I certainly don't play online poker for serious money. I want to be able to see the other players if there's anything beyond pin money riding on it, because I consider myself better at reading others than they will be at reading me.

But your suggestion (take the profit and go back to $10) makes a lot of sense in terms of risk avoidance, whether it be poker or shares. Many's the time I've bought shares, and when prices have gone up, sold enough to recoup the initial investment.

But there's another way to look at it, and we're back to risk versus gain. If you have $10 to "invest" in poker, it can take quite a lot of time to parlay it up to $300. If you have $300 to start, it is typically MUCH easier to make the next $300, and the next ..... assuming you're winning through skill, not blind luck.

There's a lot of very poor poker players out there, both online and in casinos. It is perfectly possible for a good and smart player to make a comfortable living from poker, providing you accept that losses will happen. The real skill (IMHO) lies in the mental response to both winning and losing. If you can manage that, and can take losses on the chin and bounce back, then over a period a good player will make money. But to make money that's really worth having, and that represents a decent hourly rate, you need to be on medium or high stakes tables and that means the risk is higher as well as the potential profit.

So my advice to divaboy would be to do as Beansprout suggested and go back to the $10 stakes, and repeat this process a few times to gain experience, both with playing and with dealing with getting beaten despite having a damn good hand (because it WILL happen) .... unless you can afford to loose that $300, shrug it off, dig into your pocket for another $300 and carry on regardless. If you can, go for it. If you can't stomach that sort of loss, take Beany's suggestion and bank the $290 profit. Do this a few times until you have a large enough war chest that you can lose that $300 without it hurting too much.

My criteria would be that if you have a given poker fund, never have more than about 20-25% of it at risk at any one time. And if you lose 25% of it (and it'll happen sooner or later), walk away and go back to it another day.
 
divaboy said:
Do you not think that sort of works out at the rough amount of people who actually take time to read/study about poker ???
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I've no idea, but quite possibly.

divaboy said:
I Think a lot of people still think poker is a game of luck...................

Just my opinon :o
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Up to a point, it is. No matter how good you are, you can still get beaten by someone that is lucky .... in the short term. That's where the mental discipline comes in. There is always an element of luck, because so many hands (depending on the flavour of poker, and no-limit Texas holdem is my game) ultimately depend on blind chance in the river. If you know your game, your probabilities and your strategies, and if you're extremely good at reading tells and concealing your own, you can maximise your chances but sometimes, the bloke with a 1 in 10 (or whatever) chance will just hit lucky. You have to be able to shrug off the fact that you played a hand perfectly and STILL lost it.
 
i usually play from 10 to 50 dollars, withdraw 30-40 dollars and continue to bring it up to 50 dollars again,

been doing this on ladbrokes, and on pacific, had a few low points but winning the stt's again now! turbo's all the way:)
 
Im in the Ladbrokes $150K poker millions weekly final!...... first big tourny.. won my way in by a $50 sat... starts in 45mins .. uh oh....
 
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