Any pool players on party poker?
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I've played for fun on Party Poker, and I'm "Earthquake57." 
I'm a 7-card stud player, never did get into Hold 'Em. When I used to play poker on a more frequent basis, I was always skeptical about playing cards with people I didn't know, worrying about card mechanics and the like. If I'm betting my dough, I want to concentrate on cards and not dodging bullets from unknown entities.
For the life of me, I cannot figure out why poker on the Internet has taken off the way it has. Playing cards behind a computer screen and not seeing the others is crazy, and I don't like not being able to see the dealer's hands.
I always hear stories from Internet poker players in my area who made the big scores, one for $64,000, another for $13,000. I then wonder how much monies they have charged on a weekly basis to their credit card account. You always hear about Big Kahuna wins and never the ones that got away.
A veteran one-hole player whom I have known for years have given up pool and is now dealing cards for a living in Baltimore. He's making a lucrative living. Young Guns are also become hooked on Internet poker, and I have noticed some talented players MIA in recent times. I know what they're doing, and it's PartyPoker.com.
BTW, what do you think about the website, http://cardplayer.com
JAM
I'm a 7-card stud player, never did get into Hold 'Em. When I used to play poker on a more frequent basis, I was always skeptical about playing cards with people I didn't know, worrying about card mechanics and the like. If I'm betting my dough, I want to concentrate on cards and not dodging bullets from unknown entities.
For the life of me, I cannot figure out why poker on the Internet has taken off the way it has. Playing cards behind a computer screen and not seeing the others is crazy, and I don't like not being able to see the dealer's hands.
I always hear stories from Internet poker players in my area who made the big scores, one for $64,000, another for $13,000. I then wonder how much monies they have charged on a weekly basis to their credit card account. You always hear about Big Kahuna wins and never the ones that got away.
A veteran one-hole player whom I have known for years have given up pool and is now dealing cards for a living in Baltimore. He's making a lucrative living. Young Guns are also become hooked on Internet poker, and I have noticed some talented players MIA in recent times. I know what they're doing, and it's PartyPoker.com.
BTW, what do you think about the website, http://cardplayer.com
JAM
JAM said:
I emphasized the essential part in this post. If you don't know how to play, that's the only way to make living out of cards
Actually, one former junior Finnish champion is making a decent living playing cards around the world. He has won a few tournaments, in Aruba for instance, paying about $30k. Don't want to mention his name, he's quite young, I think he's now around 23-24 years old and has been playing for living for at least 3-4 years already. Maybe I'll see him in WSOP tournaments soon on tv...
I play on EmpirePoker.com which is basically a sister site to partypoker. My cpu wont allow me to have an account at partypoker, since I already have one at empire. I play alot of the smaller tourney's/cash games. I am trying to win qualifiers into bigger tourneys. I watched a 250.00 entry tourney with 307 players that paid out 40 spots. 50,000 for 1st, and 1,000 for 40th. Pays out 13% of the field. But you can win a good amount past your entry.
www.cardplayer.com is an awesome site. Its amazing that the magazine is around 50.00 per year, yet they give all that information online.
www.cardplayer.com is an awesome site. Its amazing that the magazine is around 50.00 per year, yet they give all that information online.
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Fred Agnir
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I've got to be the biggest idiot in the world. Everbody else can get on and run these programs, and I haven't the foggiest. Even the free sites.Hal said:Does anyone here go to Partypoker.com? It's cool. You can play free or pay. There is a $50.00 minimum deposit if you play with real money. Tournaments range from .50 cent buy in to whatever.
By the way, I mentioned pool in the title.
Maybe it hasn't piqued my interest enough, since I'm too busy on internet forums.
Fred <~~~ loves to play small pick up games, though
Hal said:Does anyone here go to Partypoker.com? It's cool. You can play free or pay. There is a $50.00 minimum deposit if you play with real money. Tournaments range from .50 cent buy in to whatever.
By the way, I mentioned pool in the title.
I don't do PartyPoker. Did once, but after realizing how horrible their SnG format is, I left for PokerRoom. I am now currently playing on UltimateBet, and if anyone wants action, they got some.
That's RIGHT! You can seated at a table at EMPIRE poker, and be playing with a table full of PARTY POKER players.
They share their online experience.
and i might say, that there are A LOT of retards online, wanting to be card champions.
I can't tell you how many times i've been in a NL HOLDEM tournament, and see like 4 guys go all in on the first hand WITH RAGS!, and POW, minus 3 players right out of the gate. (funny that this happened about 5 this morning, talk about coincidence) It's like they have no idea about the cash line, and managing your money till you have a solid shot to reach it!
morons!
They share their online experience.
and i might say, that there are A LOT of retards online, wanting to be card champions.
I can't tell you how many times i've been in a NL HOLDEM tournament, and see like 4 guys go all in on the first hand WITH RAGS!, and POW, minus 3 players right out of the gate. (funny that this happened about 5 this morning, talk about coincidence) It's like they have no idea about the cash line, and managing your money till you have a solid shot to reach it!
morons!
OldHasBeen
Tom Ferry
I Play Gin Rummy On-Line Instead.
I have donated $50 or $100 to Party Poker but that all stopped when I found GameColony.com.
They have many games there but the most popular and best security & graphics game is Gin Rummy.
I have been playing for over 3 years there and have "Cashed Out" many $K's. In a post on here long ago, I scanned my 1099 from last year from GC and it was over $23K.
I AM A GOOD GIN PLAYER. SO - With my money management skills from a life of pool and hustling, I have figured out a way to win consistently.
I keep a table open there all day and go about my business with my company and the pool forums. I currently have a $50 table open there now and if someone comes to it, I will hear a beep and check out whom it is. If it is someone I want to play, I go play. If Not, I have a courteous negative response to them and go back to whatever I'm doing.
This is ironic - I just went to my table and played 3 games for $50. Won 2 & lost 1.
(IMHO) Gin is a game of skill if time is allowed to let the cream come to the top. That is why I always play my games to 200 points. But a 200-point game of gin @ GameColony is about the same time as a heads up game to 75 points because it is so fast and precise.
(IMHO) Hold'em Poker has to come down to the luck of the River MOST of the time. I know for a fact that you CAN (not always by far) get into a hi$ hold'em game where 4 or 5 players are in the same room with laptops.
TY & GL
Hal said:Does anyone here go to Partypoker.com? It's cool. You can play free or pay. There is a $50.00 minimum deposit if you play with real money. Tournaments range from .50 cent buy in to whatever.
By the way, I mentioned pool in the title.
I have donated $50 or $100 to Party Poker but that all stopped when I found GameColony.com.
They have many games there but the most popular and best security & graphics game is Gin Rummy.
I have been playing for over 3 years there and have "Cashed Out" many $K's. In a post on here long ago, I scanned my 1099 from last year from GC and it was over $23K.
I AM A GOOD GIN PLAYER. SO - With my money management skills from a life of pool and hustling, I have figured out a way to win consistently.
I keep a table open there all day and go about my business with my company and the pool forums. I currently have a $50 table open there now and if someone comes to it, I will hear a beep and check out whom it is. If it is someone I want to play, I go play. If Not, I have a courteous negative response to them and go back to whatever I'm doing.
This is ironic - I just went to my table and played 3 games for $50. Won 2 & lost 1.
(IMHO) Gin is a game of skill if time is allowed to let the cream come to the top. That is why I always play my games to 200 points. But a 200-point game of gin @ GameColony is about the same time as a heads up game to 75 points because it is so fast and precise.
(IMHO) Hold'em Poker has to come down to the luck of the River MOST of the time. I know for a fact that you CAN (not always by far) get into a hi$ hold'em game where 4 or 5 players are in the same room with laptops.
TY & GL
OldHasBeen said:
I think that this is true to some extent, but statistically speaking, Novice players are more likely to be a river rat, than not. This is cause novice players, are more likely than experienced players to actually hang in there with a hand that depends on a draw and they are the ones that chase cards. Where the smart player, and the experienced player isn't going to stay in the hand. But even so, they can't keep catching cards forever, and if you don't like hold'em, play stud.
They have stud games as well, and they avoid the pifalls of your standard hold'em game, and are easier to manage
oh, by the way, in my post before, i was talking about a single table tournament (10 players) when i was talking about the 4 guys, not a multiple table tournament.
The thing that has always bothered me about playing online is Instant Messaging. If you have ever seen tilt on ESPN you will know where I am going with this. With IM and a few poker buddies you could clean out quite a few players and share the wealth without no one knowing the diff. 4 of you logon to a table, share what you have for hands on IM and if one of your partners has a better hand then you you drop out. So essentially the iggy or iggys are betting against one player with 4 hands. BlackJack and Craps should be safe from it but any of the stud, draw or holdem games are too easy to cheat at.
JV
JV
Johnny "V" said:
yes it is easy to cheat, but it's also just as easy to find out who the cheaters are. What you are describing is called collusion. There are many signs that it may be happening at the table. Whenever Player A bets, Player B calls, Player C raises, and then one of the other players folds. They usually pick a mark when they go into the room. If you can spot these players all you have to do is e-mail the support team of the site you play on and tell them, be sure to include a few hand histories with suspicious play that you noticed.
Collusion in online poker rooms is a lot like counting cards at the blackjack tables; it will always be there, but when that person is caught, they're finished at that particular casino/room.
Poker
I play at pokerroom.com, my nickname is APOPISO.
I love playing there. I won my first 30+3 tourney tonight so im loving it. Since im at work for 12 hours, i just wait for the killer hands and play them. Seems to be working. Im up $633 US in the last 2 months. Thats good for me!
I play at pokerroom.com, my nickname is APOPISO.
I love playing there. I won my first 30+3 tourney tonight so im loving it. Since im at work for 12 hours, i just wait for the killer hands and play them. Seems to be working. Im up $633 US in the last 2 months. Thats good for me!
I highly recomend everyone try truepoker at truepoker.com. I'm sorry but I stopped playing 2d games about ten years ago. Playing partypoker makes me feel like I'm playing pong, truepoker on the otherhand has gorgous 3d graphics and you can pick different characters and cool little extras and upgrades you can download, the only quality poker site I've seen. Check it out:
www.truepoker.com
www.truepoker.com
My friends are frequently using Poker Stars. I don't because I don't own a credit card to buy chips...
I'm using a local poker network but apparently it's operating worldwide 'cause I see players from N-America mostly. Don't know which site uses the same servers...
I'm using a local poker network but apparently it's operating worldwide 'cause I see players from N-America mostly. Don't know which site uses the same servers...
As far as collusion goes, they have programs implemented to prevent this. If you are found at the same tables as other players alot, they will catch you. Read the faq. At my house, I wasnt able to have a laptop and my cpu logged in at the same time, not even for play money. I was gonna play against my son.
I guess you have to look at it as a gamble. It happens in live games also, you just have to know when to play. You can pick your tables, and monitor the types of games you get into online. Its even easier to pick a good game online. At the casino's around here, you are forced to a chair with 1 chance at a move. You can watch multiple certain tables for HOURS before you sit down online if you want.
Another advantage (some say disadvantage) that you can do online is play up to 4 tables at once, more if you use 2 different sites. So you can only play the strongest hands period, and not get bored with folding all the time. Sometimes you have to quickly drop a medium hand to focus on another, but it can work (especially if you have a huge monitor).
I like it, but I am not gonna drop 100's of dollars either. I would rather play online and have a chance to win alot, than join some of the local tourneys around here not at a casino, since the state jumped in and gets some of the money. They are all over the place.
I guess you have to look at it as a gamble. It happens in live games also, you just have to know when to play. You can pick your tables, and monitor the types of games you get into online. Its even easier to pick a good game online. At the casino's around here, you are forced to a chair with 1 chance at a move. You can watch multiple certain tables for HOURS before you sit down online if you want.
Another advantage (some say disadvantage) that you can do online is play up to 4 tables at once, more if you use 2 different sites. So you can only play the strongest hands period, and not get bored with folding all the time. Sometimes you have to quickly drop a medium hand to focus on another, but it can work (especially if you have a huge monitor).
I like it, but I am not gonna drop 100's of dollars either. I would rather play online and have a chance to win alot, than join some of the local tourneys around here not at a casino, since the state jumped in and gets some of the money. They are all over the place.
Perk said:
Good post Perk. They indeed have a system which follows if same players are playing on the same table frequently. And no, you cant change your user name.
I've also heard rumours that Party Poker has the system of equal distribution of money. Which means that if you win a lot, you'll get more bad beats from the system than normally. They just want to have more people playing without anyone getting broke to keep the rake amount high. Heard this from a guy who has been playing a lot of poker at Party Poker and also in casinos. He said that the frequency of bad beats at PP after a winning streak is much higher than in normal casino play.
Unbelieveable
If you believe that rumor I have a bridge I will sell you in Brooklyn or some swamp land in Florida. That kind of system would be equal to cheating and dishonesty and these multi million dollar poker websites do not need that nor want it. Let's see, they can program their random dealing program to adjust to the winners and losers of over 70,000 players to pick out the winners and give them bad beats. I dont think so. They could care less who wins or loses, people are clamoring to play. Random deals are just that random with no preferences. That wouuld be impossible. Thats why they invented the random program was to make it equal for everybody.
mjantti said:
If you believe that rumor I have a bridge I will sell you in Brooklyn or some swamp land in Florida. That kind of system would be equal to cheating and dishonesty and these multi million dollar poker websites do not need that nor want it. Let's see, they can program their random dealing program to adjust to the winners and losers of over 70,000 players to pick out the winners and give them bad beats. I dont think so. They could care less who wins or loses, people are clamoring to play. Random deals are just that random with no preferences. That wouuld be impossible. Thats why they invented the random program was to make it equal for everybody.
nfty9er said:
as the great mike sexton would say, "bingo bango", or something like that.
Only the crappy players complain about bad beats. Oh, my AA lost to a 3-6 on the river. Well guess what Mr. Crappy Player, AA is only meant to win 80% of the time against random cards. So for every 10 hands you have the rockets, you're going to lose at least twice, and sometimes more.