Poker

[Adam]

This is awesome!

 

 

[gotbeer]

Just once.  I'd like to see Derek suck out Helmouth and it being on TV with an epic rant. 

[mrwicked]

oh man, jennier tilly is so hot.

i love how they all wear goofy sunglasses and hats and hoodies. and she's shows up in a cocktail dress and smokes everyone.

[arch stanton]

 

[Mark68]

Hellmuth is a great player, but his style leads to a lot of volatility because he slow-plays the shit out of everything, trying to trap his opponents. When it works, it works beautifully, but when it fails, it fails miserably for him, and beautifully for his opponents. It also makes opponents want to beat him, which helps his game in the long term. But in the short term...

The hand in the WSOP with Dragomir pretty much was going to end like it did, with Hellmuth praying that he didn't have aces, and then telling the world he thought Dragomir had AQ before reraising pretty much narrowed his hand range to one possibility: AK. And Dragomir flopped the pair and took advantage of Hellmuth broadcasting his hand...

Not as familiar with Schwartz, but it looks like he has a similar style, right down to the tirades. No way he can call J Till's raise on a 4-flush board with nothing but top two. 

Damn, this reminds me how much of a love/hate relationship I have with poker.

 

[Vegas Halo Fan]

For the life of me, I still can't understand why poker is televised, or why anyone would watch it.

[gotbeer]

6 minutes ago, Vegas Halo Fan said:

For the life of me, I still can't understand why poker is televised, or why anyone would watch it.

 

People would watch the Angels too.  If the only thing that was broadcast was Trout Porn, and not the 2 hours before and 1 hour after leading to the Trout Porn.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

Makes me wonder what is next: Pro Monopoly? Major League Checkers?

[Tank]

was flipping channels today in the area of all the sports channels that i never watch. was surprised at how many of them were showing poker tournaments. it was on at least five channels.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

I don't get the appeal, except that it is something that those who are watching might have some prayer of playing.

[yk9001]

Vanessa Rousseau is one of those chicks who looks smoking hot at first glance.

[Tank]

vegas, it's hard to say what people will watch. my wife and i like to watch home improvement shows even though we live in a rental house and can't do anything to it. i also like to watch those shows where they build treehouse homes or these $200,000 swimming pools. 

there's no accounting for taste from any of us, really.

[gotbeer]

1 hour ago, Tank said:

vegas, it's hard to say what people will watch. my wife and i like to watch home improvement shows even though we live in a rental house and can't do anything to it. i also like to watch those shows where they build treehouse homes or these $200,000 swimming pools. 

there's no accounting for taste from any of us, really.

 

One day, Tank is going to just disappear.  A few years later, we will find him in a tree house in the Angeles national forest, with a huge swimming pool lake (which is what is going to give him away, since there are no lakes in CA anymore), eating berries.

[Adam]

I played so much poker in my mid-twenties (60 hours per week) I totally burned out. I can't sit at a table for more than 30 minutes now. 

[Stradling]

60's hours a week @Adam?  Were you trying to go pro?  

[Adam]

No. I was trying to make $100 a night

[Brandon]

I still keep in touch with Derek. He's still out in Vegas playing cards and doing really well. Ironically, the last time he put a package together I invested and he got 4th in a pretty big tournament.

I don't play like I used to, but still follow the poker world pretty close. Since moving out to OC I've been to Hawaiian Gardens quite a bit, but not in a few months. Probably down a little in the cash department, but my roll is in the + because the last tourney I played was a Sunday regular they do and got 5th.....still peeved with the amount of chips I had, huge ICM blunder.

I miss it, I enjoyed playing full time back in the day.

[Tank]

2 hours ago, gotbeer said:

 

One day, Tank is going to just disappear.  A few years later, we will find him in a tree house in the Angeles national forest, with a huge swimming pool lake (which is what is going to give him away, since there are no lakes in CA anymore), eating berries.

That will mean I'm retired and no longer have to deal with crap from jr. high kids and their parents. Sign me up, GB!

[mrwicked]

never been a big fan of poker.

but get me at a craps table.... i destroy.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

I have never understood craps. If you were in a casino and heard a lot of yelling, odds are that it came from the craps table.

[mrwicked]

14 hours ago, Vegas Halo Fan said:

I have never understood craps. If you were in a casino and heard a lot of yelling, odds are that it came from the craps table.

it's great because its all math.

you don't need to try and "read" the guy across the table in knock-off raybans and an nba jersey.

also if you know how to bet you can get the best odds in all of vegas.

but you have to bet though. the people that walk up to a table with $40 or $100 might as well just hand it over to the casino and head to the buffet.

[Slegnaac]

On 5/24/2016 at 0:46 PM, mrwicked said:

it's great because its all math.

you don't need to try and "read" the guy across the table in knock-off raybans and an nba jersey.

also if you know how to bet you can get the best odds in all of vegas.

but you have to bet though. the people that walk up to a table with $40 or $100 might as well just hand it over to the casino and head to the buffet.

$40 no Ten

Or $40 no Ten with  $22 inside