Anyone play poker? Anyone decent at it? Online or real tables? If online which rooms do you use?

Just general poker chat really.

not too bad at it mate. Play a lot of local tourneys but dont seem to be able to trust the online games enough to go on them. Dont think online play is as good as live you cant read people proper

Btw anyone looking to start playing online but doesnt feel they are good enough to risk their own money (or if you just want to play for free) [url=http://www.pokerstrategy.com/home/Poker Strategy[/url has a quiz where if you get 100% they will give you $150 to get started and there is a good range of poker rooms to choose from. They also have plenty of free material to teach about different aspects of play. Oh and for the quiz, it doesn't take too much effort to find alot of the answers online.

And no I'm not getting payed commision by them.

Im starting to get into it a bit at the moment but not good enough to play for real and wont be for a long time,

I think i will just stick to playing on the free one on facebook for now im ok at that

Yeah that is the only problem with online. You have to change your game a little. That said I play online alot more for the convenience.

its just the fact that i dont want to lose money online without seeing and reading people i lose enough live haha no not too bad only staarted last year as im only 19 but not doing to bad beggining of year i was well into it playing 4 times a week lol its 1nce a month now lol like has been said i like the facebook 1 where its play money lol

Play quite regularly, hardly ever online nowadays though due to how much it seems to be based on luck rather than skill.

FAO: Robbo and Jonny - Someone's beaten you to it, you big pansies.

as we speak now i had 200,000 chips taken off me with 3 aces lo lso luck based this game lol :@

I'm not a big lover of playing online, but I use PKR when I do. It's got the best all round package. Also for those who don't wanna put real money into it, they have play money tables and tournaments where you can win real money for nothing!

I have only got 269,000



so you must be pretty good at it

had the worst day ever today started at 500000 now down too 93,000

lol

This is the best iv ever had

i going to smash this computer up so i have come off it lol :@:@

like to play as regular as possible both live and online. cant play the facebook thing nor play money as poker isnt real poker unless there is proper money on the table. I use Pokerstars and its a pretty good site, biggest in the world apparently with shed loads of tourneys and SNG's going off regularly plus games and Omaha(my personal favorite) available. Would definately reccomend it, even though ive been running as cold as the antarctic ocean recently!!!

Been told to try Ultimatebet as they apparently have 110% sign up bonus plus its ment to be full of donks!!

Also in response to the guys who arent fans of online, you need to realise online poker is a completely different game to standard poker, its all about betting patterns and picking you hands exceptionally carefully. If theres enough interest we could try get a private tourney up and running?

I played with Skypoker when online however i've recently vowed never to play on there again. Try to play live as much as possible as i prefer it but it's down to usually once a week atm.

I taped the world cup poker on sky a few days ago but was really disappointed with the line-ups, Vicky Coren team captain for us!

I've currently got the third highest chip count in a freeroll on Full Tilt. 4373 entrants and now down to 343. The prize is the last table recieve a copy of Mike Matusows autobiography and the winner gets a signed copy.



I'll let you know how I do.

Bet thats an interesting read!! am working me way through an online poker book at the moment which is pretty good, also getting tips off a mate who has effectively gone pro playing 4-5 hours a day and earning double the money he did in his old job!!

Tried to join SkyPoker but while they would let me put money in they wouldn't let me play online, i could take a seat but would get booted. Overall an extremely unsatisfying venture

Well a Matusow style melt down saw me finish 44th. I was about 20th and went all in with with a pair of 6's. Got called by a guy with AJ and he hit the ace on the turn.

And you're right it would have been an interesting read. I'm a bit disappointed really.

to start with i couldnt play it i was rubbish i just called everything and lost almost everytime.

i have since got into it abit play on myspace got about 250,000 chips now though just play touneys its free i play the 25,000 chip ones i won one and it took my tally upto about 250,000 its fun though. it does sometimes really pee me off when you have one of those really unlucky nights when you cant even win with an A A hand.

I just went all in with AK and a guy with A10 called me. I hit the ace high straight on the flop and so he got his pair of tens. J on the turn and again on the river to give him full house.

I had someone all in last night, i had 8's, he had 3's. The board came ace, queen, jack, ten, king

played the 30k last night on pokerstars, monied in a creditable 399th of a 4000+ field. had aces early and they held for once to get me strong for a while but the hands dried up after the 1st hour and it took me playing very aggresive in position to steal my way into the money. anyone else moved over to pokerstars?

Split pot, no bad thing. If that's your worst bad beat then count yourself lucky, come back when you lose with quads or a straight flush (I've done the later not the former).

I play on Full Tilt and on Victor Chandler.

In the tournement I mentioned above I was chip leader at one point and then it fell apart. First I had AA and got beat by a straight. I then had AK and a guy went all in, I called and he had AA, needless to say it held up for him. This reduced me to about 5,000 chips with an avarage chip count of 9,000. I then scraped around for a bit picking up a few small hands and then the straight/full house incedent happened. I had monied in my previous three tournements before this (I came 74th and it was top 40 to get payed, 250 approx entrants). The other night I made the final table (7th) in a guranteed $4000 tourney to get a couple of hundred £.

I've lost with a straight flush before. I think it was 7h 8h 9h 10h and something else as the community cards and I had the 6h. Needless to say another guy had the Jack.

The other night I had one go my way though. I had A 10 and the flop brought 5 10 10. I raised and the other bloked pushed all in. I presumed he to had a 10 and I had him out kicked so made the call. Of course he had pocket 5's. The final 10 came on the river.