Please ship the moniez

I don't remember seeing any players online from China before. But tonight there's one on all of my tables, all shortstacking, all open shoving preflop any time they get a good hand.

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So i've been playing online for about a year now, playing low stakes and doing ok, but I've never gone to a casino. I'd like to give it a shot, just for fun. I don't even know what kind of games the casinos near me have, but i know they probably don't have much. So the only limits their are probably much larger than any i've played online. How many buyins do you think I'd need in my bankroll, to have a decent shot playing at a casino?

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I searched for quite a while to find the perfect image of a baller... I couldn't think of anything better than this.




This is something I've been thinking about a lot lately. What does it really mean, to be a baller? What is ballerness? You need money, of course, but money alone is not enough, otherwise you just look like this guy:



I think being a real baller requires some combination of money, women, looks, talent, and charisma. What do you guys think? What's the most important ingredient? Or, post the most ballin' out of control pictures you can think of.

Also for lulz the scholar baller program

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I've been playing seriously for about 4 months now, although I haven't really played that much this last month. I started with $50 at NL2, now after like 300 hours and 100k hands, I have about $500. I can easily beat NL10, but I still can't crack NL25. I've taken like 10 shots at it, but every time I just quickly lose money and have to rebuild at NL10.

The thing is, I do enjoy poker but... not that much. There's lots of other games that I enjoy more, the only thing that really makes poker exciting for me is the potential to make money. And, I'm starting to doubt that that's ever going to happen for me. I came from the same background as a lot of you- a college student who's played a lot of starcraft and is good at math and most strategy games, but is kinda lazy and doesn't like working too hard. So, I guess I'm just frustrated that I'm not as good at this game as I hoped I'd be, and i've spent a lot on it for nothing.


Poll: Keep playing?
(Vote): Keep trying, you'll get there eventually
(Vote): No, there are better uses for your time

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I'm looking at how much i've won with which type of hands right now, in PT3, and the results are quite surprising.

Straight flush: +6
Four of a kind: +89
Full house: +445
Flush: +323
Straight: +105
Three of a kind: +539
Two pair: -122
one pair: -609
high card: -434
Total: 344

Mostly I'm just shocked at how much money I've lost with just one pair, especially when you consider that I've made +227 from AA. Right now my winnings from monster hands are just enough to overcome my losses from one pair. Is this normal? I'm curious to see what the distribution looks like for others, especially looser players.

edit: I think this is somewhat inaccurate because it includes hands I folded PF. So for example, if i folded 27 PF and the flop came 222, it would count as me losing money with Four of a Kind. If you give me back the ~1000 that I've paid in blinds, I can see that my pairs are actually profitable

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Actually not really my first, but it's my first since I started playing online (So far I've played about 75k hands and I'm at 25NL now.)

Wow. These people SUCK.

min raise min raise min raise, 2nd pair = nuts, nobody even looks at their kicker apparently. At one point, someone called off most of his stack with just A high. He didn't bet, he didn't make any attempt to bluff he just kept calling with nothing. Later, another guy had lost his whole stack except for just 6 chips, and was seriously debating folding his big blind of 2 chips. Gah.

I think maybe I shouldn't play with these guys anymore. They're friends of mine, I don't want to take their money (although I didn't win, I got second after a guy rivered a set and then a flush in back to back hands).

How do you guys handle this? I'm sure you've had this problem, if you play online constantly, and your friends want to play a casual game for low stakes. Do you play, or not? If you do, do you try to play well, or do you just throw your money around like they do?

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Submitted by : luddite

PokerStars Game #22044163279: Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10) - 2008/11/14 19:39:07 ET
Table 'Glarona III' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: littleslick8 ($2.35 in chips)
Seat 2: Hero ($10.50 in chips)
Seat 3: RampantPanda ($10 in chips)
Seat 4: ElPato24 ($28.10 in chips)
Seat 5: JGrei ($10 in chips)
Seat 6: l.langeweile ($5.30 in chips)
Seat 7: The_presside ($10 in chips)
Seat 8: ATOJ5 ($6 in chips)
Seat 9: Inesiite ($16.40 in chips)
The_presside: posts small blind $0.05
ATOJ5: posts big blind $0.10

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to Hero
Inesiite: folds
littleslick8: calls $0.10
Hero : calls $0.10
RampantPanda: folds
ElPato24: folds
JGrei: raises $0.40 to $0.50
l.langeweile: folds
The_presside: calls $0.45
ATOJ5: folds
littleslick8: folds
Hero : calls $0.40

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $1.70)

   
The_presside: checks
Hero : bets $0.80
JGrei: raises $4.20 to $5
The_presside: raises $4.50 to $9.50 and is all-in
Hero : calls $8.70
JGrei: calls $4.50 and is all-in

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $30.20)

   

River (Pot : $30.20)

   

Showdown
The_presside: shows (four of a kind, Fours)
Hero : mucks hand
JGrei: mucks hand
The_presside collected $28.70 from pot
Hero said, "wow a quad suckout"

Summary
Total pot $30.20 | Rake $1.50
Board  
Seat 1: littleslick8 folded before Flop
Seat 2: Hero mucked
Seat 3: RampantPanda folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: ElPato24 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: JGrei mucked
Seat 6: l.langeweile (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: The_presside (small blind) showed and won ($28.70) with four of a kind, Fours
Seat 8: ATOJ5 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: Inesiite folded before Flop (didn't bet)

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So I'm playing NL10, and in one week won almost 20 BI, then I had a weekend of just breaking even no matter what I did, and now I've lost about 10 BI over this last week. Is this normal? It's really making me paranoid about my playing, I don't know if I'm playing differently now, or if I'm just getting unluckly now, or if I'm just a bad player who got lucky for a while.

edit: immediately after posting this I win 2 BI. what a crazy game.

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I just started playing a little over a month ago, and right now I'm at NL10 on PS. I've been playing mostly full ring cash games, and I'm wondering if that's really the best way to go. It seems like a majority of people on this site play 6 max- why is that? What are the advantages of full ring vs. 6 max vs heads up vs tournaments? Alternatively, should I look at playing some other games like Omaha or 5 card draw?

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And it feels very good! I've been playing mostly 2/5 on stars, but now I'm up to $240 (started with 50 just over a month ago) and I'm gonna move up to 5/10. Here's my graph. Haha I had a huge swing in the middle there- combination of heaters, coolers, and bad play.



And here's my stats, any thoughts? Do you think I should raise PF more often?

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